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That doesn't explain the similar drops in crime in Canada, most of Europe, Australia, and a ton of other countries. The US is nearly unrivaled in incarceration,
by ch4s3 9y ago
That doesn't explain the similar drops in crime in Canada, most of Europe, Australia, and a ton of other countries. The US is nearly unrivaled in incarceration, but crime hasn't dropped faster of further than in comparable developed nations with lower incarceration rates.
- shadowtree 9y agoMost of Europe never had the crime and murder rates of NYC during the same timeframe. 70s and 80s in Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Madrid, etc very different than in NYC.
- ch4s3 9y agoNYC then should see a larger drop then as it reverts to the mean. Those cities may no have had peaks as high as New York, but their peaks were during the same time period. Half of Berlin was in the GDR where heavy handed surveillance networks tracked most residents, so it isn't really comparable.