Again it’s not that things in the US got worse, though there was an uptick in urban violence from the 1970s until the mid-1990s, it’s that it failed to get better as fast as everyone else.
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I think the crime bubble did a lot of damage to our national psyche because it created an era of paranoia about violent criminals, and created the narrative that being Dirty Harry levels of Tough On Crime was the best solution.
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