"Every city is going to have glitches, " said Paul DeMaio, who helped develop Capital Bikeshare in Washington, which runs on the same hardware as Citi Bike.

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Newark's police director, Samuel DeMaio, points out that in his city drug dealers do belong to gangs, and drug money is more important than gang affiliation.

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Fritz urged the city instead to consider a proposal by San Diego Councilman Carl DeMaio to contain pension costs by preventing abuses of the rules for calculating pension benefits.

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