Beginning in December 2003 and continuing until further notice, the Chicago Police Department is conducting a special operation in which officers normally assigned to administrative duties spend one week every five weeks in uniform, out on the streets. Their goal is to disrupt and displace drug dealers in Chicago's top 100 narcotic locations. You can read more about this at: Desk Cops Eager to Hit the Streets.

So ... what are your thoughts? Are you one of the officers who have sat on these drug spots? Is this working? Are you a regular district cop near these hot spots? Has your job changed at all because of Operation Closed Markets? Everyone else, what do you think?