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Crime wave
August 13, 2021
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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.
June 24, 2021
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Alex Shephard
Mainstream Reporters Are Parroting the Republicans’ Idiotic Talking Points About Crime
The GOP wants to convince America that socialist, defund-the-police Democrats are responsible for rising crime. Political journalists are already sold.
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