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Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd do more to stop it from happening in the first place.

I will try to make our politics more human.

We must weed out corruption and build a strong system of justice that the people can trust.

Let's stop pretending we can arrest our way to safety and security. Despite all the fine work that policemen and women do, we have got to find other solutions to deter crime.

A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate.

We can do better, and we must hold the politicians accountable to do better.

Certainly, by providing individuals coming out of institutions with ways to become productive citizens, we reduce recidivism. What that means is we reduce crime. There are fewer victims when individuals have options - when they have job skills, when they have life skills, we break the cycle of children following their parents into institutions.

There is a weapon we can fight with. That is the weapon of political action.

It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.