US Crime Decline Debate

Not necessarily. Crime as a whole has been decreasing.https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-release...

Can you source that fact? I'm seeing both violent and property crime as statistically way down over the few decades.

Hasn't crime declined in a lot of places though? What's the control?

Bit of a stretch, but I think it can be attributed to the overall reduction in crime since the early 90s, most likely brought upon by the elimination of lead in gasoline.

Crime wasn't always an imaginary problem in this country. In fact, not too long ago it was a major problem (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States). Right now we have almost half the level of violent crime and homicide we had about 20 years ago. Some cities, like New York, had even higher crime rates in the 80's and 90's compared to now than the country as a whole.

Haven't we seen a decline in violence and crime during that same period... I wonder if there is correlation, or even causation.

I have to wonder, this largely seems to have coincided with the fantastic decrease in crime since the 2000's onwards. Coincidence?I largely agree with the article. This needs to be lauded and discussed.

Please don't throw wild vague claims around without substantiating with data/sources.Crime has decreased pretty much everywhere over the last three decades. I am sure there are pockets in the world where it hasn't, but those would be the exception.[https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rates-across-wes...]

Crime is also way down over the last 20 years:https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/04/24/what-the-...

Continuing the 30 year trend in decreasing violent crime that only briefly pushed back up during the start of the pandemic, ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States#Cri... . Nowhere near the highs of the late 1970s/1980s/very early 90s. Unfortunately this WSJ article is behind a paywall.