i had worked with my colleague anthony braga who was part of the original core boston team. anthony had worked with ed in a while. they had entirely shut down their shooting problem using assertions and cavemen and police said no more of this nonsense. and he is actually building this way of operating more organically into the department than ever before. they're a couple of problems. one is that just like with two grown kids and your own dogs, if you tell them you are doing some pain and doubt it's real hard to get their attention again. it is better not to do this at all to do it and lie to the streets. the streets are used to getting my two and they don't like it and they don't respect it and they don't respect us. so it is harder than the first time to get their attention and get the respect. on the second thing is boston remained severely fractured city. it's tragic because this stuff was born here. boston showed that you could do it. there was this moment of real cooperation and it's not that did not seem less, happy state. and there is a line partway through the book a