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684 - Chapo Victims Unit (11/28/22)

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The New York Post - It's Like the 80s

In the 80s, people were responding to crime rates in social conditions where they had social relationships. Even though crime is much lower, we've replaced that social interaction with internet, with media. And so it's like all day your friends are telling you, hey, you hear about Steve getting a pickpocketed? You hear about Dave, the knockout game? In 1982, if that's all you heard in like 1982, you would go insane. If every person you talk to in a day talked to you about violent crime, instead of talking to real humans, you just get this clack-son nonstop. But I gotta say, it's pretty rich coming from the New York

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