Twitter thread claiming that cell phones help explain the secular decline in crime since 1990. As “texting your drug dealer” replaced “finding your drug dealer on a street corner”, control of territory became less important, and violent drug gangs were replaced by less violent ordinary people.

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When I was living in Wales my road was a drugs drive thru.

People would park up their cars, call someone on their phone and then within 10 mins a black kid on a bike would knock on their window and give them a little plastic package.