<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5f82732c-bc0c-4304-9895-a180553ab14d/BAA63F18-54BE-441F-9E2A-FBAA23AEB0F7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/newark_citizen_patrols_flood_s.html" href="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/newark_citizen_patrols_flood_s.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.nj.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/newark_citizen_patrols_flood_s.html">By <A href="http://connect.nj.com/user/dgiambus/index.html">David Giambusso</A></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/newark_citizen_patrols_flood_s.html">October 30, 2009</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/newark_citizen_patrols_flood_s.html">NEWARK -- Convoys of white vans led by Newark’s mayor and filled with more than 100 of its employees and residents are flooding the city’s neighborhoods in the middle of the night as a way to reduce crime.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/newark_citizen_patrols_flood_s.html">As part of Community Caravan Night Patrols, more than 120 volunteers have patrolled city streets with Mayor Cory Booker and a crew of off-duty police officers since Sept. 29. 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