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From: hkr4627@acf4.UUCP (Hedley K. J. Rainnie)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Jungle boxes and crime
Message-ID: <580017@acf4.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Feb-85 23:43:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb 18 23:43:00 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 21-Feb-85 05:21:17 EST
Organization: New York University
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I propose legislation that will ban Third world briefcases, better know as
Ghetto Blasters. Surveys in the Washinton DC and upper NYC areas by
Klein and Friedkin of Harvard have shown that crime in these areas has 
INCREASES by the CUBE of the number of portable stereos. Another thing is
that the companies that manufacture there stereos, (JVC,Sony,Aiwa...) make
very little money off them, in fact trade journals indicate that as many as
95% are stolen after they leave the factory.
  Therefore we can see that the radios are a contributing factor to crime
in the inner city. Banning them in our opinion is necessary to abate the 
disturbing rise in youthful crime.

					Hedley Rainnie
					Rei Shinozuka
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