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former9thward

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25. No it is not "ridiculous".

Reply to TheWraith (Reply #24)

Wed Jan 11, 2012, 07:59 PM

Jan 2012

A reduction in violent crime rates over basically the same period of increasing incarceration rates and not two ships passing in the night. They are related to each other. The reasons for the crime rate itself is partially your reasons and partially others.

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Violent crime in the United States has been dropping continuously for almost 20 years. [View all] TheWraith Jan 2012 OP

no link? AlecBGreen Jan 2012 #1

Dubner and Levitt in Freakonomics suggest a correlation to abortion maggiesfarmer Jan 2012 #3

Correct. A fairly significant drop in crime occured just as the children who would have been EOTE Jan 2012 #6

There's about a billion theories. TheWraith Jan 2012 #9

Oh, I forgot to add technology. TheWraith Jan 2012 #13

REASON.COM? whatchamacallit Jan 2012 #14

Somebody wanted a link, I googled for it. TheWraith Jan 2012 #16

Uh huh... whatchamacallit Jan 2012 #19

Care to elaborate on that statement? TheWraith Jan 2012 #22

Nope whatchamacallit Jan 2012 #23

LINK maggiesfarmer Jan 2012 #11

Precious salt for the wounds of the victims. LanternWaste Jan 2012 #2

So because something bad happened to someone, we should ignore that crime is down? TheWraith Jan 2012 #10

Demographics Ron Obvious Jan 2012 #4

that is probably a major part of the equation Douglas Carpenter Jan 2012 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author Obamanaut Jan 2012 #5

That's correct. However, there's very little evidence to suggest that concealed carry lowers crime. EOTE Jan 2012 #8

Yes, and many of the others loosened their laws. TheWraith Jan 2012 #12

Almost entirely prison. former9thward Jan 2012 #15

while U.S. incarceration rates dwarf that of all other countries while still having by far the Douglas Carpenter Jan 2012 #17

Which only demonstrates how high our violent crime rate would be former9thward Jan 2012 #18

but what is the rest of the western world doing right and we are doing wrong that gives us a Douglas Carpenter Jan 2012 #21

That line of reasoning is pretty ridiculous. TheWraith Jan 2012 #24

No it is not "ridiculous". former9thward Jan 2012 #25

Replaced by terrorism treestar Jan 2012 #20