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To: LindyBill who wrote (36344)	4/17/2007 3:45:45 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541922

A police presence is a deterrent. If they showed up at your house because you had a stalker, the stalker would go away, but that's not practical. However, police can be an affective deterrent on college campuses. Where I went to school the campus police would walk research assistants to their cars, if it was requested, when we were there late at night. Because college campuses are "dense" with people (and no, that's not a pun on them being stupid)- police deterrent makes sense there, where it might not make sense in a suburb. In congested situations police can make a lot of difference keeping the peace- they don't just shoot the bad guys Bill, they do a heck of a lot more than that, as anyone who knows anything about community policing will tell you.