His brother was killed in 2004. Now he fights violent crime as a top Justice official
Kenneth Polite, head of the Criminal Division since July, wants to take the most dangerous people off the streets and spend more on preventing violence.
The Justice Department's reach sweeps from international manhunts to plain old American political corruption, as its 1,200 Criminal Division employees around the world may engineer the takedown of a Mexican drug cartel one day and lead the search for cyberthieves stealing millions of dollars the next.
How the head of that division, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Polite, approaches its mission is rooted much closer to home:
