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Dallas 1963 and the culture of fear

Jonathan Simon, professor of law | November 25, 2013

Today Americans in many large cities are experiencing levels of homicide last experienced in the mid-1950s. This is the result of a crime decline across the country that began in the early 1990s, when homicide levels were twice has high (or higher). When you look at homicides on a graph, this steep decline marks the … Continue reading »