These did more to take bad guys off the streets than harassing squeegee men.

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So bad that the cross streets of Chelsea could be renamed dead zones.

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It stopped me from going out in the streets, finding bad people to hang with.

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The streets look like a bad storm rumbled through, not the deadliest fertilizer plant explosion since 31 were killed in Toulouse, France, in 2001.

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Mr. Bratton has some experience with jailing bad guys, making them stay off the streets and watching the crime rate drop.

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"Gun crime in Britain is about 10 years behind America, so we have 10 years to stop things getting so bad we have people who think they are gun slingers on the streets, " said Mrs Lynch.

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The bad news is that there are hundreds more like them still on the streets.

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The more bad guys there are in prison, it appears, the less crime there has been in the streets.

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"We hope forecasts are exaggerating the amount of snow, but you never can tell, " Bloomberg said, adding that at least the bad weather is arriving on a weekend, when the traffic is lighter and snowplows can clean up the streets more easily.

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