What their homes say, what the one on the corner of Fourth and New York says, is that poetry is a neighbor, not a visitor; that it arises most prolifically not from isolated, rarified precincts, but from the dense, chaotic, ever-changing places that our state abounds in.
Yet the 81st precinct is not an isolated case - especially when it comes to downgrading crimes.
In South Florida, where diversity is as much a part of the landscape as the white-sand beaches and the sun-kissed resorts, many racial and ethnic minorities acknowledged that their communities were too often isolated by perspectives as much as precincts.
Indeed, while Mr. Bush and his Republican supporters characterized the problems as isolated to South Florida, there were, in fact, serious problems at precincts elsewhere in the state.
The British have long gone, but Katha, camouflaged in the book as Kyauktada, survives as isolated as ever, one of the most tantalizingly difficult places to reach in the rugged precincts of northern Myanmar, formerly Burma.
Department leaders say they have rigid quality controls, including semiannual audits of every precinct, to prevent widespread manipulation of crime statistics, and that any episodes of tampering have been isolated.
It also boasts of interpretation services that are intended to leave no foreign speakers isolated from getting help from officers on the street, over the phone or in any of the department's precincts across the five boroughs.
It was isolated, but not isolated enough.
