OMAHA—While insisting that the city’s gang numbers are badly inflated and a new strategy to stop gun crimes here is years overdue, a long-time critic of the  Omaha Police Department  tells Nebraska Watchdog (see video below) that the next police chief should come from outside the ranks. Nationally recognized criminologist—and professor emeritus at UNO— Sam Walker is touting an anti-crime program known as “focused deterrence.” Walker, who says he is submitting a six page report on the plan to Mayor Jim Suttle, met with reporters at a news conference arranged by the Omaha Alliance for the Private Sector. The move follows Suttle’s creation of an anti-gun task force which does not include Walker; the Alliance has been a constant critic of Suttle’s administration.