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“The surest path to safe streets and peaceful communities is not more police and prisons, but ecologically sounds economic development. And that same path can lift us to a new, green economy - one with the power to lift people out of poverty while respecting and repairing the environment.”

Source: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems

“Society questions the police and their methods, and the police say: 'Do you want the criminals off the street or not?'”

Want Streets Police Method Criminals Policemen

Author:Kurt Russell

“The mugger who is arrested is back on the street before the police officer, but the person mugged may not be back on the street for a long time, if ever.”

Ifs May Persons Long Streets Long Time Police Officers Arrested Police Officer Muggers

Author:Mario Cuomo

“Once on the streets of New York a woman called the police because her child spoke to me.”

Children Streets New York Police Spokes

Author:Theda Bara

“It is a dangerous time to be a black woman in America. It’s a time when we are not safe in the streets or at home or at school or at work and nobody seems to be able to do anything about it. Nobody. Not us. Not our mommas. Not the police. Not the people we elected to look out for our interests. Nobody. We’re just out here. (p.53)”

People Looks Home Seems Able School America Black Interest Streets Dangerous Safe Police Black Women Momma

Book:Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot

Source: Deals With the Devil: And Other Reasons to Riot

“Crime in the city streets is more than a political issue. It's a too rampant fact.... In Indianapolis they have come up with a most sensible, affordable approach to the problem. Policemen are assigned their police patrol cars for personal use after hours. They are encouraged to use the police car while taking the family shopping, to the movies, and everywhere one takes one's family. As a result, says the Police Chief's assistant, we may have as many as 400 cars on the street instead of 100 or so per shift. [And] the presence of the police car obviously indicates the proximity of policemen.”

“Just because you can watch half-nude women on afternoon television or gay men kissing on the streets of nearly any major city does not mean America is free, as complacent liberals might think, much less too free, as conservatives often suggest. Just because most dissidents are left alone doesn't mean there is no police state, for that would be convenient indeed for the police statists: the idea that people ought not complain so long as they have the right to do so.”

“Kids have to be tough to survive on the streets of Kathmandu, where older gang members often beat and rob them. They face cold winters, hunger, homelessness, and unsympathetic police. But under each hardened shell there is still a child.”

Children Stills Kids Faces Streets Cold Members Beats Tough Police Winter Hunger Shells Gang Homelessness Hardened Gang Members Winter Cold Unsympathetic

Author:Craig Kielburger

“We can't do much about ensuring that the homeland is safe if our local police and sheriffs' departments don't have the personnel they need to keep our streets and neighborhoods secure.”

Ifs Needs Streets Safe Police Locals Secure Department Neighborhood Homeland Personnel Sheriffs

Author:Dick Durbin

“We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes out of me - wailing police sirens and street parties, rumors and landlords, that cultural, spiritual scene. And Ossie came up from the South, where struggle and dying were part of everyday life. That is who we are.”

Spiritual Party Struggle Streets Dying Grew Scene Grew Up Police South Everyday Atmosphere Who We Are Everyday Life Rumor Harlem Sirens Landlord Wailing

Author:Ruby Dee

“If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, Go! You are free! Free as a bird! Go! Go! - do you think they would shout and dance for joy? They wouldn't. Birds are not free. The people you've just evicted would sputter, With what right do you throw us out? This is our home. We own it. We have lived here for years. We're calling the police, you scoundrel.”

People Ifs Thinking Years Said Home Joy Doors Streets Fronts Calling Bird Police Scoundrels Front Doors

Book:Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

“I just love to play rock and roll. I love to write songs all the time about what's up on these streets. I write songs about people getting killed; I write songs about people getting beaten up; I write songsabout people getting taken to jail by the police; and I also write songs about love and happiness.”

People Writing Play Song Taken Streets Rocks Police Jail Rock And Roll Beaten Happiness And Love These Streets

Author:Wesley Willis

“Tonight, I propose a 21st Century Crime Bill to deploy the latest technologies and tactics to make our communities even safer. Our balanced budget will help put up to 50,000 more police on the street in the areas hardest hit by crime, and then to equip them with new tools from crime-mapping computers to digital mug shots. We must break the deadly cycle of drugs and crime.”

“I don't mind payin' for the police and for streets and sanitation, or road work, bridges, trains, food subsidies and welfare. But I don't wanna pay for bombs to fight proxy wars in the middle of nowhere against enemies in the night.”

Mind War Night Fighting Pay Enemy Streets Middle Police Train Bridges Welfare Bombs Subsidies Fiasco Proxy Sanitation Middle Of Nowhere

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“In New York we have streets exploding and innocent Buddhist girls being stabbed in the neck and cabdrivers refusing to help her. If we happen into a nightclub by mistake, when we leave the doorman will be lying in the street surrounded by police.”

Ifs Helping Happens Funny Lying Girl Mistake Streets New York Humorous Police Innocent Buddhist Necks Exploding Nightclubs

Book:If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!

Source: If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead Yet?!