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Monday, July 20, 2009

Despite recession, crime drops in biggest U.S. cities

Including Washington and Los Angeles. A lot of experts were warning communities to brace themselves for a crime wave, but that doesn't appear to be happening. One point of comparison, via the Washington Post?

Criminologists point to the Great Depression in the 1930s as a time of relatively low crime compared with the Roaring Twenties, when the country experienced more violence.

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