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August 13, 2021
Paul M. Renfro
The New “Crime Wave” Panic and the Long Shadow of John Walsh
We are still living in the world that Walsh, and “America’s Most Wanted,” helped build: a paranoid populace that believes crime is everywhere and can only be solved through relentless policing.
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