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theandrewbailey on May 31, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Collapsing Crime Rates of the ’90s Might Have ...

This might be my perspective from a flyover state, but weren't cellphones rare until the late 90s/early 2000s?

TheCoelacanth on May 31, 2019 [–]

Yes, but people who got a lot of value out of them (e.g. drug dealers) were early adopters.

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