After reading "The Common Life," and "The Uses of Sidewalks," it is easy to see that the main idea in both essays is security. The question that arises from reading the two essays is: What method is best to provide security in a community? In both essays, though used in different ways; the community is used as a means for security. The types of security provided by both essays are very natural. Though the police …
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…others for security. The police department seems to be the last resort when someone cannot achieve security on their own. It is very difficult to tell if this method of security can be as efficient as the actual police because it has never been tried out. It is logical to say though, that in most cases it would not work because most Americans are too worried about their own security to worry about another individual.