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Fight crime &
joblessness at same time.
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Tweak the priority
of law enforcement efforts & resources to stress
drug activity, violent crimes, and robberies over
traffic violations.
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Create an auxiliary
force attached to Anniston Police Department to free
regular officers from less important duties.
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Neighborhood-based
policing and citizen patrols to advise APD of
potential crimes in progress.
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Monitored portable
security cameras used in high crime areas.
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End practice of
using APD to hand delivery council mail to council
persons twice a month.
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Need of more
significant police presence all over city.
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Better response
time by APD on trouble calls.
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Decoy policemen
rotated randomly at Fast Food establishments at
night.
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Murder moratorium
and meeting annually on Martin Luther King Day.
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End any vestiges of
racial profiling by APD.
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Since high violent
crime rate in the U.S. is in large part due to easy
availably of guns:
1. Require a city fire arms license to own a gun in
city limits.
2. Buy back weapons twice
a year at city meeting center instead of gun/weapon
shows & sales.
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End police
jurisdiction for free. Charge for city services or
require annexation into city for any service
extended beyond boundaries.
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Inexpensive bumper
sticker campaign against violence & crime for all to
participate.
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Truancy officer &
resource office at AHS.
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2nd
chance school for county drop-outs at AHS.
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Refurbish ball
parks in Golden Springs, Nettles, Randolph, and for
inter-city play.
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Civil Rights
Park/Freedom Rider Museum.