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Article: Perot/Choate. (crime prevention policy of presidential candidate Ross Perot and running mate)(Election '96)
- Article from:
- Corrections Today
- Article date:
- October 1, 1996
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America needs to return to the days when we could leave our doors unlocked and walk down a street at night without the fear of being robbed. If we are going to make our neighborhoods safe, we must win the war on drugs and rebuild our inner cities.
As clearly as any issue, crime prevention shows that all the problems facing our country are connected like pieces of a puzzle. It is no accident that any area of high unemployment and high illiteracy also is an area of crime:
* Urban areas depend on good-paying manufacturing jobs to support heavy populations. Yet, the Commerce Department reported that 19 American cities lost 2.3 million manufacturing jobs from ...