depending on the wear, duh   similarly confounding is the striking divergence between the salience of street crime in national, as compared to loca, jurisdictions. although these days it appears that the politicization of street crime is proceeding space on all fronts - national, state, and local - this has not been the case regularly. rather spotty research indicates that street crime seems to have been frequently prominent in national politics at least since the 1964 campaign between goldwater and johnson. in contrast, street crime has only infrequently been on the local political agenda. according to research covering 10 cities between 1948 and 1978, crime was salient only from 1974 to 1978. my own case study, using a different research strategy for a single city in the pacific northwest, comes to similar conclusions. in cedar city, the pseudonymous site of my research covering the years between 1969 and 1980, street crime was clearly salient only from 1975 to 1978. leaving aside for the time being what may be special about hte late 1970s and the mid-1990s, suffice it to say that there would seem to be something incongruous about this divergence and, in particular, the more modest levels of local politicization even though violent street crime is primarily the responsibility of state and local governments.
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