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Originally posted by The Larry Davis Experience
By the way, glad to see you posting more lately, Hannibal.
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I don't know how things are in the rest of the country, but our patent practice is absolutely insane right now. I was at work til 2:30 in the morning on Thursday finishing a draft of an opinion and, at 1:30, I heard an interference associate paging another interference guy. Aside from mandatory trips I take to see family and go to conferences, I'm basically at work all the time the last few months. These boards are my entertainment of sorts (as is reading the many papers online). Just bought an iMac laptop too, so I might start renting DVD's and watching them while I'm working. Basically, the DC area is insane right now, or at least that's what I'm seeing at my firm and hearing from several others. And this could just be the beginning of the next boom. Its actually a bit scary for me as a midlevel.
Nothing else on Iran here, as it appears you appreciate my point about what motivation Iran would have to do what we are accusing them of doing. We may or may not have been played before, but it seems we are definitely being played by someone now.
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Btw, apropos of a conversation we had a long time ago on the Board that you probably have forgotten, I found this Chron article comparing SF and Oakland's homicide investigatory practices to be pretty interesting. Seems like this guy is arguing that despite Oakland's skyrockeyting homicide rate they're doing some things right. Or maybe it's just that the SFPD is having a tough time lately...
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I'm watching the rates in a few cities, including St. Louis, Chicago, Boston, New York, LA and DC. Chicago's new super is rocking and rolling, though I'm not sure he's fired or demoted anyone exempt yet. They are putting as much manpower (and other resources) into the worst neighborhoods as they can find. Some of it seems a bit inefficient still, but its probably better than what they were doing before Cline. Down 29% year over year. The comparisons get worse in the second half, as the decline started in the middle of last summer.
It seems Boston was a one man show with Evans, as neither his temporary replacement (who fucked up the crowd control a few months ago) or the permanent replacement (who is seeing what they are describing as a new "epidemic" of homicides) is able to produce anything like the results that Evans produced. The numbers are going a long way.
I'd love to see a good story on St. Louis, but their numbers were clearly going the right way at the end of last year. LA's are retracing (in stock terms) part of the huge decline that started under Bratton. It seems that he needs more resources, just like he asked for. And NYC seems to be holding its own, and it hopefully continues do to so.
Aside from Chicago, which is really just applying things learned over the last 10 years in numerous other cities, I think LA is the great one to watch now. With its significantly lower number of police per capita, its the ultimate test of Bratton. From the beginning, he said he needed resources on the per-capita scale of NYC if he was to produce the results on the scale he produced in NYC. It'll be interesting to see if he convinces the powers that be.
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