So a couple of things on the Law And Justice front with the Heir, as we progress with reforming policing.  The Heir takes note of Andrew Cuomo in New York signing reforms into law for New York.  One of those includes a requirement for a rough total of 500 cities and towns to submit their plans by April of next year to reform their departments if they want to receive state funding.  The Heir's pretty sure there are far more than 500 cities and towns in New York in total, since Bachelor Blue State numbers its towns in the thousands.  So it looks as though this set of reforms in New York does make wise regards for sleepy hamlets along the Erie and Lake Ontario coasts with no more than 20 people or so, but it would be nice if there were more specific information for the the Heir to go on.  Sleepy hamlets of 20 people aren't likely to have more than 2 cops total in *their* department, so a set of reforms that work for bigger towns aren't necessarily going to apply for sleepy hamlets.  But the Heir feels more assured that we're still going to have cops in the foreseeable future, and the Ed Snowden types' plans to get rid of all cops everywhere have failed for the time being.  They had a temporary buoyancy in light of the tragedy in Atlanta, but that's faded now.

The Heir respects and supports New York City's decision to disband its anti-crime division for the sake of more fair and sensitive policing, but he disagrees with the City's assessment that such a division is "outdated."  If crime stats go back up again, the City will have to stand ready to reinstate the division at a moment's notice.  He sees the anti-crime divisions as being put in place during the 90s to deal with the crack epidemic of the 80s, and the bad old days of the 70s.  Most young people today have no living memory of how bad things really were in those days.  The Heir remembers a Western Studies course in college that questionably required its students to make a major foray into a major city, e.g., New York, to visit a museum and do a historical analysis on an artwork of significance to the course.  This was at the height of the crack epidemic, and the Heir remembers a classmate who said he took his car into New York, and came back from the museum to see a bunch of bullet holes in his car.  So the Heir welcomed when anti-crime measures were put in place during the 90s, because battle-hardened drug cartels in the cities weren't going to respond to fair and sensitive policing.  It was partly those measures that aided in urban revival in New York and surrounding cities to the point where people felt more safe to visit those cities, and aid in those cities' economic recoveries.  The Heir concedes that at this *specific* point in time that you may not need such measures, but that doesn't mean you won't need them in the future.