November 15, 2002
Crime as America's Pop Culture
As I write, the panic over the Washington-area sniper appears to have ended with the arrest of a truly bizarre father-stepson combination, but, until it was over, the saga held us agog for the better part of a month. Like the exploits of Jack the Ripper in the darkened East End streets of late-Victorian London, the almost-daily attacks filled us with terror, kept us glued to the news outlets of our day, and, during the weeks of uncertainty and rumor, dramatically changed people's daily
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