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[https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history by Joseph Stromberg 4/11/15 Vox] | [https://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7551873/jaywalking-history by Joseph Stromberg 4/11/15 Vox] | ||
The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking” | The forgotten history of how automakers invented the crime of “jaywalking” | ||
=====In a Safer Age, U.S. Rethinks Its ‘Tough on Crime’ System===== | |||
[https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/us/with-crime-down-us-faces-legacy-of-a-violent-age-.html by Erik Eckholm 13/1/15 The New York Times] | |||
The new law expanded the death penalty, and offered the states billions of dollars to hire more police officers and to build more prisons. But what was not clear at the time was that violent crime had already peaked in the early ’90s, starting a decline that has cut the nation’s rates of murder, robbery and assault by half. | |||
