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It's not as simple as that. Advances in trauma medicine played a major role in lowering murder rates. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1124155/ http
by pythia__ 11y ago
It's not as simple as that. Advances in trauma medicine played a major role in lowering murder rates.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1124155/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1124155/
- hga 11y agoI've seen disputes about how much (can look them up), but as the abstract notes, this was largely a mid-1970s thing, as advanced trauma treatment from the Vietnam War filtered into the US, although the process started in the last '50s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_Adams_Cowley https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_Adams_Cowley
- ceejayoz 11y agoMurder rates aren't the only form of crime going down. Rape, robbery, property crimes are all down massively since the peak in the 1970s. One speculated reason is the removal of lead.