>I think one of the points of Verhoeven's satire was that it was supposed making fun of Reagan America's ridiculous idea of what inner city crime looked like.
The 1980s were one of the peaks of violent street crime in US history. I don't know what Reagan's idea of inner city crime looked like, but in scale at least I doubt it was much different from the reality.
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The 1980s were one of the peaks of violent street crime in US history. I don't know what Reagan's idea of inner city crime looked like, but in scale at least I doubt it was much different from the reality.
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