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<p align="center"><a name="Top of Home Page"></a><!--webbot bot="ImageMap" rectangle="(180,94) (310,120) email.html" rectangle="(485,91) (543,118) search.html" rectangle="(433,93) (483,119) links.html" rectangle="(391,92) (433,119) jobs.html" rectangle="(312,94) (390,119) contribute.html" rectangle="(2,91) (178,120) http://congress.nw.dc.us/fightcrime/" rectangle="(419,62) (544,91) state_committees.html" rectangle="(312,61) (417,92) press.html" rectangle="(182,63) (311,92) reports.html" rectangle="(52,62) (179,90) aboutfightcrime.html" src="images/banhome.GIF" border="0" width="549" height="125" startspan --><MAP NAME="FrontPageMap"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="180, 94, 310, 120" HREF="email.html"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="485, 91, 543, 118" HREF="search.html"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="433, 93, 483, 119" HREF="links.html"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="391, 92, 433, 119" HREF="jobs.html"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="312, 94, 390, 119" HREF="contribute.html"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="2, 91, 178, 120" HREF="http://congress.nw.dc.us/fightcrime/"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="419, 62, 544, 91" HREF="state_committees.html"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="312, 61, 417, 92" HREF="press.html"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="182, 63, 311, 92" HREF="reports.html"><AREA SHAPE="RECT" COORDS="52, 62, 179, 90" HREF="aboutfightcrime.html"></MAP><a href="_vti_bin/shtml.dll/oldDefault.htm/map"><img ismap usemap="#FrontPageMap" border="0" height="125" src="images/banhome.GIF" width="549"></a><!--webbot bot="ImageMap" endspan i-checksum="47551" --></p>
<p align="center"><font size="5"><b><i>a national anti-crime
organization led by police chiefs, prosecutors, and crime
survivors</i></b></font></p>
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<h1 align="center"><font color="#333333">WE'VE MOVED!!!!!</font></h1>
<h3 align="center"><font color="#ED181E">As of December 9th, our
new contact information is:</font></h3>
<h3 align="center"><font color="#ED181E">Fight Crime: Invest in
Kids<br>
2000 P St., NW Suite 240<br>
Washington, DC 20036<br>
Phone: (202) 776-0027<br>
Fax: (202) 776-0110</font></h3>
<p align="center"><font size="4"><strong></strong></font>&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><a href="reports.html"><font size="4"><strong>Click
here for Fight Crime's four-point School and Youth Violence
Prevention Plan</strong></font></a></p>
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<td width="100%"><p align="center"><font size="5"><b>Fighting
Tough, Fighting Smart:<br>
</b></font><font size="4"><b>It&#146;s Time to Unleash
America&#146;s Most Powerful Anti-Crime Weapons</b></font></p>
<p>Anyone who thinks jailing a criminal erases the agony
that crime leaves behind hasn&#146;t seen crime up close.
As police, prosecutors and crime survivors, we struggle
every day against crime and its devastating impact. We
are determined to see that dangerous criminals are
arrested and put behind bars. But policing and
prosecution alone leave us stuck on a treadmill, with
more kids becoming criminals to replace those we lock up.<br>
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The most powerful weapons in our anti-crime arsenal are
the investments in children and youth that get them off
to the right start and help them grow up with the skills
and moral values to be good citizens instead of criminals
&amp;emdash investments like quality educational
preschool care, the prevention of child abuse and
neglect, good schools and after-school programs, and
school-to-work and job training programs so all kids can
look forward to making an honest living as contributing
members of the community.<br>
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This year, we have an unprecedented opportunity to win
increased public investment in two especially powerful
crime-prevention strategies: child care and after-school
programs. When we as a nation see to it that when parents
are working their young children have access to good
educational preschool programs and that all school-age
kids get good after-school programs, we will cut the
enemy&#146;s most important supply line: its ability to
turn kids into criminals. And we will win a stunning
victory against crime.<br>
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Failing to make investments like these means fighting
crime with one hand tied behind our backs.<br>
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<h1 align="center"><font size="5"><b>No More Excuses</b></font></h1>
<p>We know, from <a href="reports.html">scientific
research</a> and from our own experience, how to
dramatically reduce the chances that today&#146;s
children will become tomorrow&#146;s criminals. We know
that when children are protected from abuse and neglect,
when they get quality early childhood education, adequate
health care, good schools and after-school programs, and
school-to-work training or access to college, they are
far more likely to grow into good citizens that
contribute to their communities -- and far less likely to
threaten public safety. </p>
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<h1 align="center"><font size="5"><b>Law Enforcement
United in Calling for Crime-Prevention Investments</b></font></h1>
<p><b>Every one of the over 500 law enforcement leaders
and crime survivors</b> who make up Fight Crime's
membership have called for making sure all children have
access to educational child care and after-school
programs, that we do far more to prevent child abuse, and
that we provide intensive services to help troubled kids
get back on track</p>
<p>Over the last year, <b>leading national and state law
enforcement organizations</b> have adopted similar calls
for expanding critical crime-prevention investments like
these &#151; including the:</p>
<p><b>National Sheriffs' Association</b>;</p>
<p><b>Major Cities [Police] Chiefs' Organization</b>
(composed of the police chiefs from North America's 52
largest cities);</p>
<p><b>Police Executive Research Forum </b>(made up of
police chiefs, sheriffs, and other law enforcement
officials who together serve over 100 million Americans);</p>
<p><b>National District Attorneys' Association</b>; and
such state law enforcement groups as the</p>
<p><b>Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police</b></p>
<p><b>Arizona District Attorney and Sheriff's Association</b>,</p>
<p><b>California District Attorneys'</b> <strong>Association</strong>,</p>
<p><b>California Sheriffs' Association</b>,</p>
<p><b>Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police</b>,</p>
<p><b>Illinois State's Attorneys Association</b>,</p>
<p><b>Iowa State Sheriff's &amp; Deputies Association</b></p>
<p><b>Maine Chiefs and Maine Sheriffs Associations</b>,</p>
<p><strong>Maine Sheriff's Association</strong></p>
<p><strong>New York Association of Chiefs of Police,</strong></p>
<p><strong>New York Sheriffs Association,</strong></p>
<p><strong>North Carolina Association of Chiefs of Police</strong>,</p>
<p><b>Rhode Island Police Chiefs' Association</b>, and</p>
<p><b>Texas Police Chiefs Association</b>.<br>
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<p><font size="4"><b>There is</b></font> no substitute
for tough law enforcement. But neither is there any
excuse for failing to invest in proven strategies to
prevent crime tomorrow. Government&#146;s most
fundamental responsibility is protecting the public
safety. It cannot meet that responsibility without
providing the funds to make sure all children and
families have access to the programs we know can prevent
crime and keep communities safe.</p>
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