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		runako 33 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abort... As a person old enough to remember the War on Drugs, I can agree that people who think things are worse now must have spent the late '80s/early '90s sheltering in libraries or something.

542354234235 32 days ago [–]

It was also before the "if it bleeds, it leads" explosion of crime reporting starting in the 90s.

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