Script
LOCATION: A residential city street at night.
A young woman leaves a house party and starts to walk home alone. She turns a corner and the sound of the partyis gone.
We hear the sound of her heels on the sidewalk.
A shadow passes across the corner of the screen.
CUT TO
Woman glancing over her shoulder.
SOUND OF
Another pair of feet walking behind her.
She is being followed.
The young woman increases her pace. Forevery step the man takes, she takes several. He is much larger than her. Nothing has happened yet and she is trying not to panic. His footsteps grow louder.
VO
Freedom is knowing you will make it home safe tonight.
TITLES
"By year's end, nearly 12,000 police officers will have losttheir jobs."
USA Today, 10/24/2011
"Imagine calling 911 for the Pennsylvania State Police and notseeing a trooper for hours, even days."
Patriot News, December 11 2011
The young woman is terrified, on the verge of breaking into a run.
VO
Tell Republicans we need our cops on the beat.
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