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Community-based policing has now come to mean everything. It's a slogan. It has come to mean so many different things that people who endorse it, such as the Congress of the United States, do not know what they are talking about.

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Crime is the price society pays for abandoning character.

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I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

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I believe we ought to subsidize some health care for the poor, but Medicare subsidizes everyone's health care.

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I mean that the function of the police is to solve problems that have law-enforcement consequences in a way that is based on a genuine partnership with the neighborhood in both the venting of the problem and the discussion of the solution.

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