
165. The Perfect Crime
Freakonomics Radio
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Do You Have a Vehicle Manslaughter Statute?
Between 2008 and 2012, there were something like almost 1,300 fatal crashes in New York. Only about 5% of the drivers who kill a pedestrian in New York are arrested. Massachusetts and Connecticut have vehicular manslaughter statutes that punish traffic fatalities or serious injury because of simple negligence.
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