For the mayor, the event may have been no more than a routine news conference about a modest new crime-fighting program, cost: $10,000.
Mr. Konaté has acted as an interpreter for the police and spreads the word about their crime-fighting programs.
They are not full-fledged informants, but they report suspicious characters in mosques, act as interpreters for the police and spread the word about crime-fighting programs.
Given the history of block grants, this approach will scatter the money originally aimed at one purpose - hiring more police - among other crime-fighting programs.
Mr. Maple, after all, was the man who developed Compstat, the crime-fighting program using computerized statistics.
During her tenure as attorney general, the Justice Department expanded in budget and manpower with a succession of crime-fighting programs.
I assume you've come because you're interested in my crime-fighting programmes.
More Troopers and Judges Prison expansion has been the hallmark of Mr. Cuomo's crime-fighting program.
In March, Reno inspected crime-fighting programs in Atlanta.
These days, on the campaign trail, there is another spat, over the memory of an ambitious crime-fighting program, known as the Safe City, Safe Streets bill.
