Classical music reduces crime!

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http://wire.ap.org/APnews/main.html?SLUG=MUSIC-CORNER (I don’t know how long this link will work.)

JULY 08, 14:28 EST

Police Play Music to Reduce Crime

By AMANDA RIDDLE
Associated Press Writer
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A free concert of Mozart, Bach and Beethoven is being played 24 hours a day on a blighted street corner, not to enlighten the masses but to reduce crime.

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There also aren’t as many loiterers, who used to number up to 200 on weekend nights on the residential corner in Rosemary Village near downtown.

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Recent statistics indicate crime is down on the corner. Drug-related calls dropped to four from February through June, compared to 20 during the same period in 2000, according to the police department. Calls for service were down to 83 from 119 last year during those five months.

Okay, so it’s just driving away people who don’t like the music. But it’s funny anyway.

The article says that three “greatest hits” CDs are being played in rotation constantly. The system has been vandalized once by someone taking a sledgehammer to the electricity meter outside of the building! Everyone’s a critic. To be honest, hearing the same three classical CDs all the time would have me thinking about a sledgehammer, too.