MILLION DOLLAR MURRAY

Title: MILLION - DOLLAR MURRAY . By: Gladwell, Malcolm, New Yorker, 0028792X, 2/13/2006, Vol. 82, Issue 1. MILLION - DOLLAR MURRAY . Section: DEPT. OF SOCIAL SERVICES. Why problems like homelessness may be easier to solve than to manage. MURRAY Barr was a bear of a man, an ex-marine, six feet tall and heavyset, and when he fell down . which he did nearly every day it could take two or three grown men to pick him up. He had straight black hair and olive skin. On the street, they called him Smokey. He was missing most of his teeth.

Fifteen years ago, after the Rodney King beating, the Los Angeles Police Department was in crisis. It was accused of racial insensitivity and ill discipline and violence, and the assumption was that those problems had spread broadly throughout the rank and file. In the language of statisticians, it was

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