Shelby County Mayor Lee Harris, a Democrat who opposed the task force, speculated that crime—which had been a problem—was dropping at least in part because people weren't venturing out nearly as much. "Our risk is that [America is] gonna become a Yemen or a North Korea or something else altogether, where there is an armed individual with a semiautomatic weapon and military fatigues on many corners," he told me. "There may be zero crime, but we also won't be leaving our houses. I know that's a dark scenario, but that's kind of where we are."…

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