The research wars: hard-liners gave long prison sentences credit for the drop in crime. They were mostly wrong.(Smart Justice)
American Prospect, The, December, 2003 by Yglesias, Matthew
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Walking to my hotel through Amsterdam's deserted early morning streets, I felt a sharp poke in my back and heard an accented voice behind me. "Do you know what this is? It's a knife. Now, you are going to give me your money or else I will stab you, and kick you, and kill you, and throw you into the river."
"That's a canal, not a river," I replied, before a second poke persuaded me to hand over the cash.
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