first met him when i went to george in hanover, new hampshire, where he's living with his wife, catherine cole, and went up there four times during that last year and on the first visit, there was a young man working with george and they were collaborating on something that was of great interest to george in his last year on this earth. george was very disappointed that much of what has spent his life devoted to trying to educate the importance of community policing, the importance of broken windows and that it was being attacked and being attacked successfully, unfortunately. and so the idea that he was about to leave this life, his life's work was being torn apart and he the good fortune in that last year to meet rafael. and i'd like to think that a lot of the influence in this magnificent book was through that exposure to. george george's last work for the manhattan institute was a 3000 word effort that by rafael defending community policing and the community policing. it effectively was what could make safe. so from that exposure to rafael developed a friendship it the admiration of a ment