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Article: City residents to address crime; Debate on how to police city goes to people who live where crimes occur
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- Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- October 24, 2002
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Lancaster Crime Commission is taking it to the streets.
After weeks of expert testimony and finger-pointing by scholars,
law enforcement and public officials, it's time for residents to
offer suggestions and propose solutions to the city's crime problem.
The crime commission will hold four public meetings where
commissioners will take crime-fighting suggestions from those who
actually have to put up with the drug dealers and delinquents who
plague their streets, crime commission vice chairman Al Lewis said
Wednesday.
One meeting will be held in each of four sections of the city,
using the intersection of King and Queen streets as the dividing
axis.
It is important residents know whether they ...