CBS has this article tonight
(CBS) Looking for the main reason serious crime — murder, shootings and robberies — have nose-dived in Boston this year? Try old-fashioned foot patrols.
Officer Joe Singletary, who volunteered for the new “Safe Street” teams, told CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston that he can see the difference.
“You don’t see much drug-dealing,” he said ” “You don’t see a lot of the people hanging around.”
The idea came from Boston’s new police commissioner, Edward Davis.
“Officers on foot have an effect on crime,” said Davis. “Officers in cruisers do not have a major effect on lowering the crime rate.”
Sgt. Nora Bastion, who heads a team of six officers, said it was tough getting residents to accept them.