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A Cheap Fix for Urban Crime

A Cheap Fix for Urban Crime

Instead of expanding arrests, try adding better lights.

In the summer of 2014, the new mayor of New York City had a problem. Bill de Blasio had campaigned against aggressive policing, particularly the city’s controversial policy of briefly detaining people and patting them down for weapons. Stop-and-frisk, which a federal court had ruled was discriminato…

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