There's a book I just finished called "Freakonomics" by economists Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner that I have to recommend to everyone. Its not political but instead its a study on the real shit in life that actually matters and affects the every day person financially.
One thing they studied is the drop in the crime rate across the US starting in 1992 and dropped sharply in 1995. It plummeted and in many places politicians had to make up shit to take credit for it. It baffled everyone and for a decade no one could REALLY explain why. There weren't more police. The penalties weren't harsher. Education has gotten worse, as has poverty. More illegals are here so that's not it Mr Trump. Gangs were at their peak when the drop happened. So what was it?
They looked at every factor at the time that could possibly have some role in this phenomena. They studied it and ran the numbers in every direction and came up with an unthinkable conclusion. Roe vs Wade is why crime rates dropped starting in the 1990s. When abortion became legal there have been millions of future criminals who were never born.
Here's the logic: Most crime is committed by low income and poverty level young people between the ages of 18 and 24. Considering that Roe vs Wade was put in place in 1973 and didn't hit stride until almost 1980, that takes away millions of potential criminals at the exact time that the drop in crime began in the 1990s.
The effect of legalized abortion on crime (sometimes referred to as the Donohue-Levitt hypothesis) is the theory that legal abortion reduces crime. Proponents of the theory generally argue that children who are unwanted or whose parents cannot care for them well are more likely to become criminals and that an inverse correlation is observed between the availability of abortion and subsequent crime. Moreover, children born under these conditions are usually economically disadvantaged. In particular, it is argued that the legalization of abortion in the United States, largely due to the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, has reduced crime in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Opponents generally reject these statistics, and argue that abortion has negative effects on society or decrease in crime is brought about in other ways. (Republicans)
One thing they studied is the drop in the crime rate across the US starting in 1992 and dropped sharply in 1995. It plummeted and in many places politicians had to make up shit to take credit for it. It baffled everyone and for a decade no one could REALLY explain why. There weren't more police. The penalties weren't harsher. Education has gotten worse, as has poverty. More illegals are here so that's not it Mr Trump. Gangs were at their peak when the drop happened. So what was it?
They looked at every factor at the time that could possibly have some role in this phenomena. They studied it and ran the numbers in every direction and came up with an unthinkable conclusion. Roe vs Wade is why crime rates dropped starting in the 1990s. When abortion became legal there have been millions of future criminals who were never born.
Here's the logic: Most crime is committed by low income and poverty level young people between the ages of 18 and 24. Considering that Roe vs Wade was put in place in 1973 and didn't hit stride until almost 1980, that takes away millions of potential criminals at the exact time that the drop in crime began in the 1990s.
The effect of legalized abortion on crime (sometimes referred to as the Donohue-Levitt hypothesis) is the theory that legal abortion reduces crime. Proponents of the theory generally argue that children who are unwanted or whose parents cannot care for them well are more likely to become criminals and that an inverse correlation is observed between the availability of abortion and subsequent crime. Moreover, children born under these conditions are usually economically disadvantaged. In particular, it is argued that the legalization of abortion in the United States, largely due to the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade, has reduced crime in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Opponents generally reject these statistics, and argue that abortion has negative effects on society or decrease in crime is brought about in other ways. (Republicans)
