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Drugs' grim impact, chapter and verse

Dennis Duggan

Dennis Duggan Dennis Duggan

Former Newsday Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Dennis Duggan joined Newsday

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For the police, CompStat, the computer program that keeps

track of crimes, is the wired-up Holy Grail of crime fighting.

But for a hard-nosed Bronx priest who has been shot at while riding his

bicycle, had a 9-mm round fired into his living room and had his rectory broken

into and robbed twice, CompStat is an imperfect barometer of the kinds of

drug-related crimes...

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