Not so long ago, the US believed it had cracked the violent crime epidemic. “Zero tolerance” and “three strikes and you’re out” were the mantras of the 1990s. Declining homicide rates were its product. Today, as the riots intensify in Baltimore following the death of yet another unarmed black man in police custody, such verities no longer hold.
不久之前，美國曾相信自己已經攻克了暴力犯罪這種流行病。“零容忍”和“三振出局”是美國社會上世紀90年代反復重申的信條，其結果是兇殺率下降。如今，信條已失效。在巴爾的摩，又一名手無寸鐵的黑人男性在被警察局拘留期間死亡，之后爆發的騷亂正愈演愈烈。
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