Obstruction is a "broader crime," said Wayne State University Law Professor Peter J. Henning.
The detectives, who are currently assigned to F.B.I. headquarters in Lower Manhattan, would be redeployed to police units around the city to focus on broader crime issues.
There is no evidence of a broader crime wave; in fact, measures of crime apart from homicides, including rapes, robberies, burglaries and auto thefts, have actually improved by about 10 percent since a year ago.
Precisely because it is a nexus for broader crime and malpractice, more governments and law-enforcement agencies should emulate America's Justice Department (and India's Supreme Court, which is trying to clean up cricket) by pursuing the embezzlers, bribe-payers and money-launderers, and dishing out serious punishments to those they catch.
At stations that are experiencing more crimes due to other crimes at the station or the level of social disorganization around the station, broader crime prevention efforts can be adapted.
This is consistent with the 12-Point Model for preventing child sexual abuse developed by Smallbone et al. (2008), which integrates public health and broader crime prevention models, identifying four prevention targets (offenders, victims, situations and communities) across different levels of prevention (primary, secondary and tertiary).
"When one individual is prosecuted for the broader crimes of a state, then with their personal guilt and incarceration the slate can be wiped clean," the British historian Tristram Hunt wrote in a newspaper article last year.
One section invented a broad new crime called "domestic terrorism" -- punishing activities that "involve acts dangerous to human life" if a person's intent is to "influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion".
