4 ms·
Great Crime Decline:Drawing the right lessons from the fall in urban violence
- fallingfrog 9y agoI don't know; it doesn't seem like he really answered the question: why did the crime wave start everywhere at the same time, and then stop everywhere at the same time? What did all those various places have in common?
- alexandercrohde 9y agoYou're absolutely right. One actual theory is that the culprit was lead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead-crime_hypothesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead-crime_hypothesis