Oh, well, that's help enormously...

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Have you read Feakonomics? They did a detailed statistical analysis of the drop in crime in the USA in the 1990s, and found that there were several minor factors - economic improvement, more cops, longer prison time - which helped a bit, and one huge factor that explained most of it.

The big factor? It was about 17 years since the Roe Vs Wade decision.

Yup.

Yea, I did read that. Not to long ago. It was an interesting observation.