Haft of the Spear

Another analyst, Rebecca, 30, graduated from Harvard Law School in 2005 and studied military contracting at the Kennedy School of Government.

She has been with the NYPD for about a year and works in trend spotting, looking at “big threats elsewhere but also at homegrown threats,” she said.

Ouch:

“Some people are a little disillusioned with D.C.,” he said. “There’s an idea that New York is a little more entrepreneurial.” The new hires and analysts already working with the NYPD come from the CIA, military intelligence and the National Security Administration (sic), among other areas, officials said.

• Don’t emulate these guys.
• Recognize that the age of someone getting hired and occupying the same desk for 30 years is over; make it easy for people to move around internally so they won’t look externally.
• Money and location is not everything; great work is. I’d cut off a vital body part before moving to NYC, but I’d hobble to work every day on the subway if the alternative was a mind-numbing paperwork drill in DC.