In addition, legislators, quite frankly, are becoming significantly tougher on crime. Unfortunately, though, while major crime decreased, the number of people we are putting in our prisons is significantly on the rise. The administration led the fight to get more money to put police officers on the street because, I think, surveillance and the presence of law enforcement is important in deterring the kinds of crime that most people are concerned about crimes against a person, crimes of violence. Additionally, because people have been concerned, there has been increased interest in neighborhood watch and alert conduct on the part of the citizens. Recently the FBI released statistics saying that major crime decreased another 7 percent last year, one of the largest one-year declines in history.
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