Public Safety

Public safety involves the prevention of and protection from events that could endanger the safety of the general public from significant danger, injury/harm, or damage, such as crimes or disasters (natural or man-made).

Famous quotes containing the words public and/or safety:

    “Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    “Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.”
    —Stephen Vizinczey (b. 1933)