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348. Less is more, more, more

By Joel Jacobsen

Courtesy of the always-worthwhile New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library - I keep thinking there must be a clever pun in there somewhere; I mean, it's the name of a blog, isn't it? - here's an NPR story about privatizing the police:In the past, remote communities like this one [i.e., Wintergreen Resort, Virginia, along the Appalachian Trail] were ripe for thieves. But since residents started paying for their own private officers, crime has dropped 70 percent. Many of the residents also did something else: They installed burglar alarms. Nationwide, one in four homes now has one. The alarms and an explosion of other devices, like steel bars, stronger doors and security glass, make it more of a hassle to break into homes, criminologists say...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on March 11, 2008 (boomark / email).