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The great crime decline is happening all across the country

43 points · 64 comments · andsoitis

downrightmike · 1790557063 · focus · HN ↗
Just like abortions in the 70's stopped the super criminals from existing in the 90's. Not having unwanted kids goes a long way to prevent crime. Now we are in the place where people want kids, but can't afford them so they aren't.
1. OutOfHere · 1790558411 · focus · HN ↗
  Crime will surely go back in red states in a couple of decades due to the current return of the abortion bans in those states.
  1. manwe150 · 1790559770 · focus · HN ↗
    I’m not sure if either of you are being honestly factual or snarky, but I seem to recall this hypothesis is actually quite highly contested in social circles, and not at all as strongly supported as the parent seems to state it as fact
    OutOfHere · 1790566737 · focus · HN ↗
    It is sufficiently detrimental in its predicted consequences that one would do well to heed it. Is it really worth the risk? It even is logical.
    manwe150 · 1790610247 · focus · HN ↗
    Seriously? It is also logical to kill anyone accused of a crime, in case they actually might have really committed it and might again. Is trial even worth the risk that one guilty man should go free?

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