Tom Leonard - That's one way to cut crime! Californian city pipes BIRDSONG on to the streets to calm citizens
January 26, 2012 A desert city in California claims it has dramatically cut crime by piping birdsong from the English hedgerows onto its streets.
Mayor R Rex Parris, who commissioned the recordings from a Surrey-based sound consultant, claims the birdsong is calming the citizens of Lancaster by altering the chemicals in the brain.
Residents of Lancaster have been treated to the restful twittering of robins, wrens, tits and blackbirds for the past 10 months after Mr Parris installed more than 70 speakers in the town.
The warbles and twitters, mixed with soft synthesiser tones and water sounds, is broadcast five hours a day along a once crime-infested half-mile stretch of Lancaster Boulevard.
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