新托福寫作萬能素材：警察到底需要多少 犯罪減少但是在警察上的花費(fèi)增加： Violent and property crime rates have dropped in America, but spending on police hassoared since the 1990’s. According to a 2012 Justice Policy Institute report, the declining violent crime and property arrests have been replaced with drug arrests: 擠兌其他維持社區(qū)穩(wěn)定的花費(fèi) The Justice Policy Institute points out that spending on police crowds out other vital community spending that could maintain stable communities: 司法部認(rèn)為只有增加逮捕的執(zhí)法才是成功的： The combined numbers of police, encouraged by federal funding and aggressive policing, are representative of a continued misguided approach to keeping communities safe. Because the Department of Justice considers ‘successful law enforcement policies’ as those that increase the number of people arrested and imprisoned, governments are shortchanging the public in regards to public safety at a very high cost. 政策制定者應(yīng)該資助基于社區(qū)的合作式的防范、教育、介入等等。 Policymakers should be directing funds toward true community-based and collaborative policing efforts, prevention, intervention, treatment, education and a host of other programs and initiatives that have been shown to promote healthy safe communities. When arrests are the bottom line instead of public safety and healthy, prosperous communities, our priorities are skewed. 為了支持巨大的執(zhí)法開資擠兌重要的社會(huì)福利： We are crowding out important social spending in order to support an increasing burden of spending on law enforcement. 警察的待遇和福利太好： Meanwhile, the Social Security national average wage index for all employment categories in 2012 was $44,321. This is slightly below the minimum average salary for a police officer. Police also have rich pension benefits that almost no other American employee enjoys. 警察執(zhí)法不當(dāng)帶來很大的成本： Although the majority of police are law abiding, an increasing number of police brutality lawsuits have created costly legal settlements for many cities. For example, the Chicago Tribune reported that the city would use some of the proceeds of a recent general obligation bond issue to pay legal settlements related to police misconduct. 如何更好的服務(wù)人民、為了維護(hù)安全的社區(qū)到底需要多少警察投入多少資源： In a healthy society, all institutions must be examined to determine if their mission and practices serve the needs of the people. Police in America have been the third rail; mostly immune from review and reform. It’s long past time for America to grapple with the difficult question of how much policing we need to maintain a safe and stable society and how much of our scarce financial resources can be spent while shortchanging other community services. 重點(diǎn)句子和搭配摘抄： Violent and property crime rates：暴力和財(cái)產(chǎn)犯罪 soar：增長 According to：根據(jù) violent crime ：暴力犯罪 property arrests ：財(cái)產(chǎn)犯罪逮捕 drug arrests：吸毒逮捕 point out：指出 crowds out ：擠兌 maintain stable communities：維持穩(wěn)定的社區(qū) federal funding ：聯(lián)邦資助 aggressive policing：強(qiáng)勢的警務(wù) misguided approach ：誤入歧途的辦法 shortchanging the public ：欺騙公眾 public safety ：公共安全 at a very high cost：一個(gè)很高的成本 directing funds toward ：投入資金在xxx領(lǐng)域 community-based and collaborative policing efforts, prevention, intervention, treatment, education ： 基于社區(qū)的、合作的警力嘗試、預(yù)防、干涉、處理和教育 important social spending :很重要的社會(huì)花費(fèi) law enforcement：法律執(zhí)行 Social Security ：社會(huì)保險(xiǎn) national average wage ：國家平均薪水 rich pension benefits：豐富的養(yǎng)老金 law abiding：遵守法律的 police brutality lawsuits ：警察暴力的法律訴訟 serve the needs of the people：服務(wù)于人們的需求 immune from review and reform：免于評論和改革 grapple with ： 跟xxx斗爭 maintain a safe and stable society ：維持一個(gè)安全和穩(wěn)定的社會(huì) scarce financial resources ：稀缺的金融資源 Citation： http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/2014/04/03/americas-police-the-third-rail/ 適用題目： In times of economic crisis, local governments often reduce the money they spend in some areas. In your opinion, if a local government is facing economic problems, which of the following areas should it spend less money on? —libraries / public transportation / police