Obama buttressed his Cuba policy proposals with a wide-ranging Latin America plan that would reinstate the regional envoy position that George Bush has not filled since 2004 and create an anti-crime partnership to cut down on the US drug trade with Mexico.
And there have also been more efforts to use local anti-crime partnerships and Asbos.
But the underlying New Labour message appears to be that the development of such imaginative anti-crime partnerships needs constant renewal and attention if they are to remain effective.
The practical aim was to develop a multi-agency data exchange (MADE) to support 14 crime reduction partnerships in the county of Lancashire in the preparation of their crime reduction strategies, as required by recent government legislation.
Those it wants involved in providing information include local crime reduction partnerships, councils, schools, further education, universities, the UK Border Agency, youth offending teams, the probation service, the health sector, the third or voluntary sector, and the community sector.
She talks about her crime-fighting partnership with Batman as a romance when her friend asks her if she's dating anyone, and then, when she does have sex with him, she gives into emotional outbursts and violence, beating a villain almost to death – just as Harley would.
Targeting could take the form of advice by police, insurance companies or government, subsidies for the installation of devices by charities or crime reduction partnerships, or legislation to decree that these devices be required as minimum standards to be met by property developers and by landlords for their tenants.
"I hope it's not backwards". Brown, who headed the Houston Police Department before taking over as New York's 36th police commissioner in January , 1990 has earned high marks for implementing a community policing program that has quadrupled the number of police officers on foot patrol and that seeks to create a crime-fighting partnership between police and citizens.
"The miracle was deracialising law enforcement, so you could aggressively target your criminals," says Eugene Rivers, a church leader in Boston, recalling how Mr Bratton had reached out to community groups to form crime-fighting partnerships.
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson form one of literature's most memorable crime-fighting partnerships.
