[monday]

"The homicide rates for 25-year-olds began falling in 1981!"

The peak of the post war baby boom was 1960. Ever since 1960 birth rates have declined each year. Ever since 1981 when those kids born in 1960 turned 21 crime rates have gone down. It's all demographics. Young people commit most crime and there are less young people now then there used to be. All very simple.

[Mr. Silverback]

Yep. Levitt's theories are bunk-a-rific.