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The rates in 2023 were 66% of what they were in 2010. That decline has not been driven by reduction in crack usage.
by p_j_w 1y ago
The rates in 2023 were 66% of what they were in 2010. That decline has not been driven by reduction in crack usage.
- mothballed 1y agoWasn't 2010 the year when you had to have something like a PhD and 20 references to get a job flipping burgers at McDonalds? That's the worst economic year I can recall in my life, or maybe it was 2009.
- p_j_w 1y agoThat's irrelevant or we'd see a blip upward around that time. Instead, the trend has been clear and almost entirely monotonic. https://www.statista.com/graphic/1/191247/reported-larceny-theft-rate-in-the-us-since-1990.jpg https://www.statista.com/graphic/1/191247/reported-larceny-t...
- mothballed 1y agoThanks, pretty shocking. Really puts a hole in the theory that people stealing out of 'necessity' is a dominating factor.