Crime rate keeps going down. Thanks a lot, Obama. Et al. (statistics, crime rates)

[70Ford]

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http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865584491/What-explains-falling-crime-rates.html

Crime rates have been going down for the last twenty years, according to figures released earlier this summer from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Gun-related murders, for example, declined 39 percent between 1993 and 2011, while nonfatal gun crimes dropped 69 percent during the same period. Crimes committed by strangers have dropped 77 percent since 1993, while crimes committed by offenders known to the victim decreased 41 percent.

[Goinback2011]

And the crime wave that went on and on from sometime in the late 60's to the early 1990's ended abruptly.

By the end of the 90's, of course, the upper classes were stealing everything that wasn't nailed down. They aren't prosecuted for their crimes, so the crime stats aren't affected.

[pghquest]

I wonder if it has anything to do with us spending $60B+ a year on housing criminals in jail, thus those that would be committing crimes, cant..

[Clark Park]

Didn't crime spike during the "Crack" epidemic of the 1980's and early '90's?

[70Ford]

The United States, with just 5 percent of the world’s population, currently holds 25 percent of the world’s prisoners