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To: longnshort who wrote (365727)	5/24/2010 12:09:08 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Respond to of 793970

A couple were shot as the sat in their squad car waiting for a light. The guy who shot them made it to court and now gets free video games, computers, TV, weight room, three meals a day, drugs Not so the guy who shot the 4 cops in a Seattle suburb. He's pushing up daisies.

To: longnshort who wrote (365727)	5/24/2010 12:42:12 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793970

I don't know the details of crime rates from the 20s and the 30s, but I'd expect that in general, and in particular in your example of Harlem, they where lower. But while crime rates went up until and through the 70s, they have largely come down since then. Improved police techniques and technology, more cops, and likely the higher incarceration rate, have all contributed to this. I think the rates are still higher than in the early 60s or before, but they've been generally dropping for awhile now.