Like it’s not just rape (but it definitely included rape and serial killing), the development of motor vehicles totally changed crime in America. Bank robberies, now that you could suddenly roll into and out of town on the route to ???, that took off in the 1920s and wasn’t really stifled til the 1980s. Kidnapping, that was the other thing that the FBI rose to power off.
The backwoods speedsters by which moonshiners outran “revenuers” is where NASCAR came from.
The rock and roll troubadour touring lifestyle, tied up with statutory rape, was enabled cause they’d be gone before you could do anything.
Aerosmith’s Sweet Emotion - “can’t catch me cause the rabbit done died”. This was an (inaccurate) reference to early pregnancy tests, rabbits react to human hormones so you’d inject them with the subject’s urine, dissect, and look for reaction in the reproductive system.
(Aerosmith songs were all about how rock & roll was all about fucking teenagers, which is why it was so weird the 90s videos were about how fuckable Steven Tyler’s daughter was.)
Adam-12 and Dragnet dramatizing the novel significance of police cars with two-way radio communication
Even check fraud, the impetus to accept checks from more banks with driving-boosted customer range conflicting with the new ability to lift a checkbook (or just pass bad ones and move on) and go on a spree
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