According to Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General in Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics, the NYPD is the largest municipal police force in the United States (Gonzales A . 2003). There were already problems within the New York Police Department that needed to be resolved. According to John Buntin in a case study titled The NYPD Takes on Crime in New York City, the chief of narcotics had not spoken to the chief of patrol in over a year (Butin 1999, p. 5). Berman E. refers to this problem as lack of communication. Communication between the commanders of the different districts had to increase. Another problem was that superiors and police officers had different priorities. The department's superiors were more focused on avoiding major corruption scandals than policing the streets and enforcing the law. They feared corruption within the department, while police officers were more focused on reducing crime, disorder and fear. Berman E. defines this problem as Mission non-being