Commissioner Downey’s Dilemma

ticletext">fifty years old, a short, heavy-set man, with a red,
SCENE: Sydney, Australia:round face, brown hair, round eyes, and a small
“Sir, what are we to do about all thismouth.
crime?,” asked Commissioner John Downey,One wall of the office had a huge map of Melbourne,
Sydney’s Chief of Police, to the Australianwith yellow, red, and blue pins stuck on the locations
Minister of Security, Percy Sumner.of recent crimes. The yellow was for burglary, red
Commissioner Downey, tall, forty years old, squarefor rape, blue for murder. Alongside this map was a
shoulders, close-cropped hair, and brown eyes, waschart showing crime rates for each of the three
speaking to the Minister in his huge office overlookingcrime categories.
Melbourne Harbor in Australia. Minister Sumner was