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for their current medical provider, insurance requirements, and <br />location were they key factors. <br />Only fifty percent of the sample was aware of a neighbarhood <br />crime watch progra� in their local area. Twenty-three percent <br />were current participants. But, an additional forty-one percent <br />thought they would participate in such a program if one were <br />offered in their neighborhood. More aggressive publicity and <br />recruitment efforts would undoubtedly result in greater <br />participation in neighborhood crime watch programs across the <br />city. <br />On the subject of lawful gambling, there is a remarkable <br />degree of consistency in the answer patterns of respondents. In <br />fact, responses statistically scale: that is, there are three <br />clear groups: ban gambling, "watchdogs," and de-regulators. A <br />fifty-four percent majority fall into the middle group, those who <br />support charitable gambling activities but all strongly support <br />more regulation and stiff automatic penalties for violation. The <br />anti-gamb�ing group is twenty percent, while the de-regulators <br />are sixteen percent. <br />Yn terms of individual behavior, sixty-two percent of the <br />cammunity reported gambling during the past year. The most often <br />cited activity was the purchase of Minnesata state lottery <br />tickets. Pu11-tabs were next at twenty-seven percent, bingo, at <br />thirteen percent, and tip boards, at ten percent. Hence, a <br />majority af residents already at Ieast periodically gamble. <br />Fifty-four percent of thE community saw AAMCO and Williams <br />Pipeline Companies storage tank facilities as at least a moderate <br />pubZic safety concern. Fifty-nine percent viewed the pipeline <br />105 <br />