effort to soften the department's approach to law enforcement and even criminals in the words of maliki harneybandwidth of justice. some members of congress objected characterizing harney's defensiveness and encourage the unfortunate feelings of isolation and fear that haunted the npd. congressman adams pointed out that the reforms suggested by the commission for akin to efforts elsewhere. all part and parcel of a recognizable drive to bring down the time and modernize these departments in less than 25 years as he put it. through the use of money and techniques he said this was precisely what we are trying to do in d.c.. the congressman went on to make a crucial observation or the courts in d.c. were overcrowded and the judicial system was literally at the point where it is turning out from the overload. instead congress endorsed the contention that d.c. police command including its new chief john layton that the department's methods were fine. this is not a real estate problem widmer responded. it was the streets of d.c. that were the problem. the officer brought in to clean up the corrupt na