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Durk is convinced that a new breed of committed cops could radically change the quality of U.S. law enforcement. Too many officers, he suggests, are insensitive to the needs of the ghetto. "We need policemen who worry about the kid getting raped on the tenement roof, not those who look out of the window of their patrol car and say 'See the animals.' We need more cops who care to identify with the people they are supposed to protect." In a nation where more than 55% of high school graduates now go on to some kind of college, a police department without higher-educated rookies is surely hurting itself. Perhaps more police chiefs as well as collegians should heed Durk's pitch.