"Street crime has also increased sharply . In the former Soviet Union, women and elderly who once felt free to sit in parks late at night now dare not venture out after dark. Since the overthrow of communism in Hungary, thefts and other felonies have nearly tripled and there has been a 50 percent increase in homicides . The police force in Prague today is many times greater than it was under communism, when "relatively few police were needed" . How odd that fewer police were needed in the communist police state than in the free-market paradise."
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