The Week

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Residents of Washington, D.C., can take comfort: their cops are as inept at committing crime as they are at fight- ing it. The chief of police recently had to resign when his roommate and confidant, a D.C. police lieutenant, was nabbed by the FBI after ham-handedly trying to black- mail gay men (a practice known as “fairy shaking”). At least one criminal is off the streets of the capital. ™@