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Police have discovered a way to cut crime: Play bird songs.

Crime has gone down in Lancaster, California ever since the mayor started playing nature sounds–bird chirps, the sound of running water–in the streets. Mayor R. Rex Parris discovered this in the UK, and brought the idea home and he has been playing the sounds during the past 10 months for 5 hours a day, over 70 speakers set up along the main street.

In the Wall Street Journal, John Letzing quotes Parris as saying, "Everybody is now in a better mood, a better place."
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If we could do this, we would be faced with the necessity of arresting and incarcerating technically "innocent" people, which would upend our entire constitution and body of laws, in the same way that torturing suspects at Guantanamo has.

This may be a possibility in the future. A secret Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime is already being tested on some members of the public. The program works on using algorithms (mathematical formulas), that include ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rates, to "detect cues indicative of mal-intent."
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A major criminal (NOTE: subscribers can still listen to this show) has been hunted by the FBI for 40 years. He is "D.B. Cooper," who, in November of 1971, boarded a plane in Portland that was headed for Seattle. He hijacked the flight and forced the plane to land, demanding a parachute and $200,000 in cash as ransom for the passengers. Once he received his requests and the plane was in the air again, he strapped the cash to his waist, opened the plane’s rear door and used the parachute to dive into the remote forest of the Pacific Northwest. He was never seen again.
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