{"has_more":true,"total_items":27,"items":[{"vg_id":0,"journal":"M]isdemeanor arrests have been presented as the linchpin of urban crime control strategies in the quality-of-life/broken windows policing models that have swept the nation. These tactics have flooded urban courts with low-level cases","page_from":620,"authors":[{"author_name":" Hausmann"}],"page_to":641},{"vg_id":0,"journal":"In addition to comprising the majority of criminal cases, misdemeanors are also on the rise","authors":[{"author_name":" Roberts"}]},{"vg_id":0,"journal":"282 (diagnosing \"recent explosion of misdemeanor adjudications flooding trial courts around the country\")"},{"vg_id":0,"journal":"5 million misdemeanor cases were filed in 2006, the NACDL report asserted that there had been only 5 million such cases filed in 1972. BORUCHOWITZ, BRINK & DIMINO, supra note 10, at 11. Taken at face value, these numbers suggest that misdemeanor caseloads have indeed grown since the 1970s, although the U.S. population has grown as well. But the five million figure is uncertain at best. The authors of the NACDL"}]}