DeBerry has been on top of things lately.
Riley went on to talk about poverty and the city's history of god-awful public schools. That's a tried-and-true formula for increased criminal activity, and most rational people understand that. But just as we don't expect dentists to turn away patients who haven't flossed, and we don't expect firefighters to ignore flames caused by those who smoke in bed, we don't expect a police chief to cite bad schools and poverty as reasons to wash his hands of the crime problem.