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Sure, that makes more sense than the fact that most people who are at the age where one would normally conduct criminal mischief are now glued to their phones.
by MisterBastahrd 2y ago
Sure, that makes more sense than the fact that most people who are at the age where one would normally conduct criminal mischief are now glued to their phones. Murder and violent crimes are both dropping year over year, too. Not sure how you wave away murder rates because people have given up on police.
- downrightmike 2y agoIts not because they are glued to their phones, its because those kids that parents didn't want to have, weren't had and didn't become latchkey kids and then criminals. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion-and-crime-revisited/ https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion-and-crime-revisite...
- roywiggins 2y agoWell, maybe. https://journalistsresource.org/economics/abortion-crime-research-donohue-levitt/ https://journalistsresource.org/economics/abortion-crime-res...
- MisterBastahrd 2y agoWe're not talking about historical crime rates. We're talking about recent ones. Yes, crime rates became lower than women stopped having unwanted children, but that has nothing to do with the recent decrease in violent crimes.
- downrightmike 2y agoWhich once past, and measured is history... the trends continue