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"Welcome to Fear City" - a pamphlet distributed to arriving visitors in airports in NYC in the (1970)s (archive.org)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

1975 pamphlet produced and distributed by the Council for Public Safety, a front group for NYPD police unions, during a contract dispute with the city. While intended to be semi-satirical, it serves as a cop's-eye view of urban space as a cesspool of crime and of a fragile society held together by sheer force of policing alone.

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