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Originally Posted by verybadgnome
Show me where total consumption of illegal drugs (not just cocaine) in NYC has plummeted at the same rate over 25 years as has the homicide rate, i.e. down 84%. We have had many drug epidemics throughout US history the latest being meth and K2 but they inevitably fade until the next drug du jour comes in.
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I didn't say total consumption of illegal drugs plummeted in NYC. I said that cocaine consumption declined in all U.S. cities and that that has played a major part in the precipitous drop in crime beginning in the mid 1990s.
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And for your last sentence correlation does not equal causation, aka what you should have learned in social stats class.
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Weren't you the one who said that the declining homicide rate was attributable to the legalization of abortion? And now you want to lecture someone on correlation vs causation?
It looks like you've already got your mind made up.
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