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iPods Cause Crime

abalk · 09/28/07 11:50AM

Times wunderkind Sewell Chan looks at a recent Urban Institute report entitled "Is There an iCrime Wave?" which speculates that "the proliferation of iPods helps account for the nationwide rise in violent crime in 2005 and 2006." (In 2005, violent crime rose nationally for the first time in eleven years.) But why would thieves target iPods and their owners?