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Soaring crime rates in the 70s and 80s are also related to the war on drugs. The "relation" is that those soaring crime rates were caused by the war on drugs.
by jessaustin 5y ago
Soaring crime rates in the 70s and 80s are also related to the war on drugs.
The "relation" is that those soaring crime rates were caused by the war on drugs.
- ch4s3 5y agoThe War on Drugs picked up steam well after crime started rising. Violent crime tripled (288,460 to 738,820) between 1960 and 1960 and population only increased by ~20 million. It then doubled again by 1980. The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act was passed in 1970, and the DEA was created in '73. Drug raids really picked up in the mid 70s. The drug war really became what we know today with the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984. There isn't broad consensus on what causes crime rates to soar from roughly 1960 to 1992.
- jessaustin 5y agoI'm not sure what was meant by "between 1960 and 1960", so I'll assume you mean the period 1960-70. A tripling in a decade for the behavior of a fairly stable population can't be real, so this was probably more closely related to effort devoted to policing, changes in classification policy, etc. If you linked to something we could consider it.