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American Morning

Ask CNN: How can we Help our Community be a Better Place to Live in?

Aired November 28, 2001 - 07:39   ET

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ANTONIA RICHARDSON, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA: Hi, my name is Antonia Richardson from Minneapolis, Minnesota. And my question for CNN is how can we help our community be a better place to live in?

JOHN WALSH, HOST, "AMERICA'S MOST WANTED": Great fan of crime watch, you know, community policing. I'm an advocate, absolutely, for prevention programs in schools, teaching our children all the things they need to know. I don't believe in paranoia. I believe that knowledge is power, that we need to talk to our kids and tell them about all the dangers that are out in our -- out there, not just stranger danger. Seventy percent of the crimes against children are committed by someone they know.

And I think that we, as a society, should really arm ourselves with really good knowledge. Whether you're an adult or a child or if you have children, you should be opening those lines of communication and talking to your children.

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