equivalent of Brownsville?
Reynolds is convinced that his
crusade saved six lives a day, because
crime rates came tumbling down in
California after Three Strikes was
passed. But upon closer examination, it
turns out that those reductions started
before Three Strikes went into effect.
And while crime rates came tumbling
down in California in the 1990s, they
also came tumbling down in many other
parts of the United States in the same
period, even in places that didn’t crack
down on crime at all. The more Three
Strikes was studied, the more elusive its
effects were seen to be. Some
criminologists concluded that it did
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