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The Perfect Crime

Continued from page 5

Published on May 08, 2002

Detective Woodings of the LAPD seems to agree with that rather bleak assessment. "We caused the escalation of violence ourselves by putting more preventative measures in place. The crooks just take countermeasures," he says.

"We might as well stand on the corner and give the jewels away. Then there would be no more robberies."

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