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You appear to be answering the question "Why is there a lot of crime in the US?". But the actual question is "Why did crime plummet -- I.e., rapidly decrease --
by gjm11 11y ago
You appear to be answering the question "Why is there a lot of crime in the US?". But the actual question is "Why did crime plummet -- I.e., rapidly decrease -- in the US?".
- NietTim 11y agoDoesn't he? He lists pasts problems which have been mostly fixed now, causing the crime rates to drop
- pizza234 11y agoAt least mass-incarceration hasn't, since USA has the second highest rate in the world.
- gjm11 11y agoHe describes them mostly in present-tense terms, and my reading of the point about slavery is that it's a past problem with effects persisting into the present. And FWIW I wouldn't say that they have mostly been fixed now. It's true that racism's got a lot better, but the US is still very individualistic (for good and/or ill), there are still big racial differences in prosperity (whatever the causes), and the US still puts an awful lot of people in prison.