Read the passage from "Times Have Changed."When I was a boy, you didn’t have to worry.You could play and not hurry home when the street lights went out.

The speaker remembers that as a boy, he could play outside without hurrying home when the street lights came on. This suggests children once had more freedom and felt safer than they do now. Therefore, the passage implies that the city is less safe than it used to be.

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