Word: preventing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Lichten said that improving lighting will notnecessarily prevent crime. "One of the premiseswas that light would stop crime. I'm not surethat's a fact," he said...
...Harvard police officer, speaking after the rape, admitted that there is no way that his department could guarantee that the police could prevent a similar occurence in the future. Such arguments of feasibility, coupled with the fact that women are under similar restrictions in general society, are no excuse for Harvard's failure to ensure equal freedom for all of its members...
Rather than trying to prevent the sale and distribution of drugs by dealers, the four teams that operate today are saturating neighborhoods with undercover officers to make as many arrests as they can. The effort is directed at stopping the daily rhythm of the drug trade and killing as many local markets as possible...
...reduced unauthorized immigration. The flow from the South continues at such a pace that the INS is embarking on what literally amounts to a last-ditch tactic: it will soon dig a 5-ft.-deep, 4-mile-long trench along the Mexican border near San Diego, in part to prevent fast-moving cars packed with illegal immigrants from racing across the boundary...
...University must recognize its responsibility to the staff, faculty and students who work here, and begin to seriously implement plans ranging from making the Science Center safe to providing a better staffed all-night escort service. Perhaps they will then be able to prevent people who do not belong on the campus or in the buildings from making life less safe for those...