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Restaurants use music as crime prevention
July 27, 2009
A Seattle McDonald's is one of several local businesses using outdoor music to discourage loitering, according to a story in The Seattle Times. Restaurants, retail shops and an apartment complex are piping opera, classical or country music into outdoor speakers as a crime prevention measure.
From The Seattle Times:
The trend is part of a larger scheme of environmental design aimed at keeping crime away, said Dr. Jacqueline Helfgott, chair of the criminal-justice department at Seattle University.It's grown mostly through word-of-mouth because businesses are looking for creative solutions to crime, she said. "It's changing the nature of the environment so people make other decisions than committing crimes."
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