Politics And Printing

"The outsiders have a hard time getting in because we're already giving them work," he notes. All of the city's print work is centralized through his office, and he sends about half of it out to commercial printers.

Dougherty says it's important, for security reasons, that his department decides where to print jobs. A few years ago, he says, the police found a police procedures manual in a criminal's apartment during a bust.