ABSTRACT
As the Mayor David Dinkins and his team fielded the political fallout from Crown Heights and tried to contend with the public mood of despair, Commissioner Brown and the police department pursued the "Safe Streets, Safe City", blueprint for transforming New York from chaos to order. The budget pressure that delayed the rise of the department to full force dealt a blow to a key element of the program, but other aspects proceeded despite ongoing money woes. The department launched a pilot plan for single-officer patrol cars and redeployed civilians. It launched Operation All Out to reduce the number of cops locked in headquarters and sent them into the streets. In the months and years that followed, the operation added a quarter of a million tours of foot patrol duty. Implementation of the community-policing strategy caused the number of officers assigned to neighborhood beats to rise fourfold.
