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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Every week there is a new pet theory relating the drop in violent crime to increased abortions, or to reduced lead poisoning, or to the death of the original wave of crackheads or some such rot.

Violent crime is down because of:

(1) Giuliani and other mayors implementing Jack Maple's CompStat program for tracking crimes and punishing QOL violations, and

(2) Putting more violent criminals behind bars for longer.

6 posted on 07/09/2007 1:36:37 PM PDT by wideawake ("Pearl Harbor is America's fault, right, Mommy?" Ron Paul, age 6, 12/7/1941)
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To: wideawake
(2) Putting more violent criminals behind bars for longer.

Bingo! I still remember reading newspaper story after newspaper story about how people were confounded that while crime is dropping, more people are in prison longer. They couldn't figure out the connection and that if you keep criminals in prison they don't commit crimes!

7 posted on 07/09/2007 1:39:51 PM PDT by Phantom Lord (Fall on to your knees for the Phantom Lord)
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To: wideawake
Violent crime is down because of:

(1) Giuliani and other mayors implementing Jack Maple's CompStat program for tracking crimes and punishing QOL violations, and

(2) Putting more violent criminals behind bars for longer.

Exactly

43 posted on 07/09/2007 3:04:01 PM PDT by finnman69 (May Paris Hilton's plane crash into Britney Spears house while Lindsey Lohan is over)
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