The endorsement from the P.B.A. came at a peculiar news conference in which the union president, Patrick Lynch, gave a brief prepared statement, followed by Mr. Green, who accepted the endorsement with a promise to give the officers a fair contract and better precincts, and to improve the disciplinary process.
To the preparation, then: vegetables softened in butter, lots of Guinness, thick chunks of second-cut brisket — breast deckle, as it's called in some of New York's better precincts (where trotter gear, by the by, is known as trayf city).
Commissioner William Bratton unveiled a new policing plan that puts cops back on the beat, walking their precincts to get better acquainted with shopkeepers and residents.
In sum, in-precinct voting offers better security than any absentee voting system.
Patrol officers have claimed that they are pushed to under-report crimes, thus making precinct statistics look better.
Nick, a depressive New York City detective struggling with a failing marriage, agrees to act as an informant for the Internal Affairs Bureau in exchange for a transfer to a better precinct.
Dann Florek was excellent as their precinct captain (much better than he is now on the trashy "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," where he has to preside over exclusively sleazy crimes and a squad room of camera-conscious television stars).
He also spoke of creating police precincts in neighborhoods, organizing better community crime-watch groups, and opening talks with the City Council about enacting a curfew to stem gang recruitment by keeping teenagers off the streets late at night.
The housing precincts were designed to better accommodate increases in car ownership which increased significantly from the 1960s onwards.
