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Re:America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births by pmart123 on Friday July 19, 2019 @12:01AM (#20476072)
“violent downtowns typified by the ‘mean streets’ of the 1970s became clean and safe in the 1990s”

While I’m not trying to be overly critical, he is also off base with his violent crime statistics as the nineties had the highest aggregate number of murders up until the end of the decade.

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Re:America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births by iguy on Friday July 19, 2019 @04:43AM (#20477086)
The more charitable reading is "became safe over the course of the 90s". The huge decline was late-90s, although as you say the peak was early-90s.
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Re:America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births by peanutgal2600 on Friday July 19, 2019 @04:24AM (#20477016)
20 years after Roe vs Wade.
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Re:America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births by dralley on Friday July 19, 2019 @07:48AM (#20477811)
And, simultaneously, the removal of lead from gasoline
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Re:America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births by wcfields on Friday July 19, 2019 @03:30PM (#20481730)
I don't know if this has ever been hypothesized, but HIV infection rates, and AIDS mortality among IV drug users in the 90's before the advent of medications?
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Re:America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births by hollerith on Sunday July 21, 2019 @08:59AM (#20491134)
Are you claiming that being infected with HIV makes a person more likely to commit crimes?
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Re:America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births by dralley on Sunday July 21, 2019 @06:57PM (#20494205)
I think he's claiming that drug users are more likely to commit crimes, and (injectable) drug users caught HIV from sharing needles.
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Re:America’s urban rebirth is missing actual births by samhain on Saturday July 20, 2019 @12:20AM (#20484170)
Perhaps in another 20 years we will find out if it really was Roe V. Wade.
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