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Re:The United States Is Still Under-Policed and Over-Imprisoned by adamsmith143 on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @12:22PM (#32498350)
This is misleading, crime massively increased from 1960 to 1980 and has been steadily decreasing ever since.
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Re:The United States Is Still Under-Policed and Over-Imprisoned by kingofkyiv on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @12:34PM (#32498520)
It correlates with access to abortion interestingly. Of which blacks use it the most.
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Re:The United States Is Still Under-Policed and Over-Imprisoned by JamesBarney on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @12:59PM (#32498870)
I know this was made popular by freakonomics but it has since been disproven. Crime rates dropped in other countries that didn't have Roe v Wade and the data better fits the hypothesis that the drop in crime was caused by the banning of leaded gasoline.
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Re:The United States Is Still Under-Policed and Over-Imprisoned by kingofkyiv on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @01:00PM (#32498885)
Interesting! Thanks for this comment and update.
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