MASSACHUSETTS POLICE GO BLACK

SPRINGFIELD, MA—Springfield's men in black are returning. The city's new police commissioner, William Fitchet, says members of the department's Street Crime Unit will again don black, military-style uniforms as part of his strategy to deal with youth violence. Fitchet's predecessor, Edward Flynn, had ditched the black attire as part of an effort to soften the image of the unit. Flynn left Springfield in January to become the police chief in Milwaukee.

Sgt. John Delaney told a city council hearing Wednesday that the stark uniforms send a message to criminals that officers are serious about making arrests, saying that a sense of "fear" has been missing for the past few years.

Okay, when those black uniforms stop bullets, we can all start wearing them, and I'd say we have something worth running up the flag pole.