Clinton proposes 100,000 new police officers on streets.

WASHINGTON — New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, campaigning for president in a neighborhood of Philadelphia so rough the mayor said, "Osama bin Laden wouldn't last here," pitched a $4-billion-a-year anti-crime package today that would put 100,000 new police officers on the streets and help stem the tide of repeat offenders back into the country's prisons.

Claiming that her husband's administration "reduced crime to historic lows" in the 1990s, Clinton argued that "we have to get back to doing what we know works."

"I'm old-fashioned about that," she told a group at a YMCA gymnasium. "I think you should actually look for solutions to problems -- find out what works and execute. Enough with the talking, enough with the speeches, enough with the rhetoric."

Clinton said her program would include $1 billion for states that want to participate in anti-recidivism efforts through education, job training and drug rehabilitation. She also urged the end of the five-year term for crack users, who are disproportionately black, because the law punishes them more harshly than powder cocaine users, who are predominantly white.

"President Bush could have built on the successes of the 1990s," she said, but instead he "slowly but surely chipped away at all of the building blocks."

Mayor Michael Nutter, who has pledged to reduce crime in Philadelphia, where there were 392 homicides last year, introduced Clinton by saying many of his constituents were more worried "about al Gangster than al Qaeda."

While Clinton pitched anti-crime measures in Pennsylvania, which holds its primary April 22, rival Barack Obama took aim at big corporate salaries. On day three of his four-day tour through Indiana, which holds its primary May 6, the Illinois senator called on Congress to pass legislation he has sponsored that would require corporations to give shareholders a non-binding vote on executive compensation packages.

"This isn't just about expressing outrage," Obama said. "It's about changing a system where bad behavior is rewarded so that we can hold CEOs accountable, and make sure they're acting in a way that's good for their company, good for our economy, and good for America, not just good for themselves."

Arguing that "something's wrong" when chief executives walk away from collapsed companies while workers lose their pensions, Obama said: "We need to do something to change it. We're going to make CEOs more accountable to shareholders, take away tax credits to companies shipping jobs overseas [and] roll back Bush tax cuts on wealthiest Americans."