Beltway Area Indymedia

Mayor Fenty and police chief Lanier have unveiled their summer "crime-fighting" strategy: Zero tolerance policing, apparently based on "Guiliani time" in New York City! On the weekend of June 8-10, a police blitz produced well over 500 arrests, including 130 for prostitution and anothyer huge number for panhandling.

Although the double-overtime police shifts that were an integral part of this blitz is unsustainable, telling cops to make as many arrests as possible on any possible charges is another story.