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Three months after transferring Shea, Kelly then dumped his brother, Inspector Dermot Shea, from his spot as commander of the high-crime 44th precinct in the Bronx to a desk job in Bronx Detectives.
Len Levitt: The NYPD Top Brass: Lonely and Unloved Len Levitt 2012
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Normally, the task force is used in high-crime neighborhoods where you have a lot of shootings and robberies," said one source."
Occupy Chicago and Wall Street protests - Monday 24 October 2011
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But the tactics that reduced crime, Wexler said, such as placing officers in schools, targeting high-crime areas and focusing on particular crimes, "are now being eroded, across the country."
Police fear crime increase as recession saps forces Tom Jackman 2010
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A sinister perspective might surmise that this intentional erosion of youthful self-esteem in high-crime, low-income areas of L.A. with no viable financial infrastructure is actually law enforcement grooming young citizens as the next crop of neo-slaves for the prison industrial complex.
Sam Slovick: Addicted to Incarceration Sam Slovick 2011
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Britain is just another high-crime industrialised country.
Sonnex and Farmer – only a matter of time. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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What about kids living in high-crime neighborhoods?
Matthew Yglesias » Sarah Palin, Disability, and Fair-Weather Small-Government Advocates 2010
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Such stories appear to have fazed few expatriates, and many compare the violence to random attacks in high-crime cities north of the border.
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Such stories appear to have fazed few expatriates, and many compare the violence to random attacks in high-crime cities north of the border.
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Shea, the commander of the high-crime 44th precinct in the Bronx, to a desk job in Bronx Detectives.
Len Levitt: Dermot Shea's "Payback" Transfer Len Levitt 2011
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A sinister perspective might surmise that this intentional erosion of youthful self-esteem in high-crime, low-income areas of L.A. with no viable financial infrastructure is actually law enforcement grooming young citizens as the next crop of neo-slaves for the prison industrial complex.
Sam Slovick: Addicted to Incarceration Sam Slovick 2011
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