Evidence?
There was a drop in alcohol related disorders and crimes
Crimes went up, as I showed in posts #108 and #116.
So the question is was the ending of prohibition itself one direct causative factor for the decline in murder rates or was the actual lowering of the alcoholism rate(despite the ending of prohibition) a direct or indirect cause?
By your (unsupported) account alcoholism should have been dropping during the entire time of Prohibition ... but the murder rate rose during that time as I showed in post #108.
This was covered in an other threat where I cited a all kinds of stuff ...so I won’t go back in time...even in the other thread the other person kept arguing that the methodology for collating such info wasn’t as good as it is now blah blah blah....so I guess you’ll have to take my word for it or not!