内容摘要：Earlier this month, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said there had been no homicides in the transit system during the first three months of the year for the first time in seven years. She added that subway crime from January to March had decreased to the second-lowest level in the first quarter in 27 years.

Earlier this month, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said there had been no homicides in the transit system during the first three months of the year for the first time in seven years. She added that subway crime from January to March had decreased to the second-lowest level in the first quarter in 27 years.

“It’s just a waste of ratepayers money. We can’t afford to do that,” Jolly added.But Victoria state’s Melbourne-based conservative opposition leader Brad Battin condemned removing such memorials as surrendering to vandals.

“We need to stand strong and remember the fact that this is part of our history,” Battin told reporters.“If you start to remove the history of our state and our country because of activists, then you’re actually giving in to those that are campaigning against it,” Battin added.Jolly disagreed that his council had given the vandals what they wanted.

“No, I think they would’ve loved for us to put it back up and then they could’ve just tagged it again or destroyed it again and just had this ongoing sort of little war going on in Edinburgh Gardens,” Jolly said.“I think they’re probably the most disappointed people that it’s not going to be there anymore,” Jolly added.

The base of the monument remained at the entrance of the park on Wednesday with a traffic cone attached to warn cyclists, joggers and pedestrians of the trip hazard it presents. Someone has scrawled a smiling face and a torso on the cone in an apparent reference to the memorial that had once stood in its place.

Jolly said a local branch of the Captain Cook Society, an international group that celebrates the explorer, have offered to preserve the bronze plaques.Leavitt said Trump believes the talks are “moving along in the right direction.”

U.N. officials on Thursday said that a small number of trucks carrying flour on Wednesday were intercepted by residents and their contents were stolen.“As far as I know, this was not a criminal act with armed men,” U.N. spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said during a briefing.

He added that the episode “only reflects the very high level of anxiety that people in Gaza are feeling, not knowing when the next humanitarian delivery will take place.”Over the last several months, Israel has accused Hamas of siphoning off aid and using it to fund its military activities, without providing evidence. The U.N. has said that there are mechanisms in place that prevent any significant diversion of aid.