But the drug trade hasn't gone away. In many cases, it has simply moved inside, as city police told residents at a public meeting last week.
"It means less violence on the streets, which is a good thing," said police Chief Michael Pristoop. "But it's still a problem."
That's the definition of "a good problem."
For years, police were able to make relatively easy arrests in the city's public housing neighborhoods, where open-air drug...
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