Federal Judge Paul Friedman has a tough call to make tomorrow morning. At 10 a.m. he’s scheduled to sit in judgment of Michael Irving; I don’t envy him.

Irving is one of the best homicide detectives ever to solve a murder in the nation’s capital. I am not stretching facts to say the streets of D.C. are safer because Irving solved so many violent crimes and put perps in jail for a long, long time.