Heather Mac Donald is a John M. Olin fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor to City Journal. She also is a recipient of 2005 Bradley Prize for Outstanding Intellectual Achievement. She received her B.A. in English from Yale University, graduating Summa Cum Laude. She earned an M. A. in English from Cambridge University thanks to a Mellon Fellowship. She later earned a J.D. from Stanford University Law School. She lives and works in New York City, and writes about it often. This video is based on an outstanding essay (the only kind she writes) by her in the current issue of City Journal, a publication of the Manhattan Institute.
Here's a link to the full essay, entitled: "New York’s Indispensable Institution."
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/nytom_nypd.html
There's also a link to City Journal under My Blog list over on the right.
