Posted on 02/20/2010 1:10:12 PM PST by launcher
No one can convincingly explain exactly how the crime problem was solved. Police chiefs around the country credit improved police work. Demographers cite changing demographics of an aging population. Some theorists point to the evolution of the drug trade at both the wholesale and retail levels, while for veterans of the Clinton Administration, the preferred explanation is their initiative to hire more cops. Renegade economist Steven Levitt has speculated that legalized abortion caused the drop in crime. (Fewer unwanted babies in the 1970s and '80s grew up to be thugs in the 1990s and beyond.)
The truth probably lies in a mix of these factors, plus one more: the steep rise in the number of Americans in prison. As
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“Had 2010 medicine been available for our civil war, the total deaths would have been somewhere under 150,000 rather than the actual 640,000.”
I don’t know what the actual numbers would have been, but I do know that sickness killed a hell of a lot of those 640,000 troops.
In other words, the Far-Left National Socialist Democrats were WRONG, just as they are always wrong on gun control, spending, taxes, the economy and generally their incessant push for Statism.
Guns plus:
AZ Maricopa County 2008: Illegal aliens down 30%. Total felonies down 18.5% Thx Sheriff Arpaio!
The TV series “Emergency!” (1972-1979) was all about the exciting new idea that there should be paramedics who were allowed to actually treat the injured on the trip to the hospital!
It was cutting edge stuff.
State laws had to be changed to allow the treatment without a doctor in the ambulance.
Very good points!
I don't have the numbers immediately available either, but it was something over 2/3, I believe.
How many troops have we lost to sickness in Iraq and Afghanistan? Darn few. Which is kind of my point. Modern medicine is even better at preventing deaths from typhus or dysentery than from wounds.
To die in the military today, you just about have to get shot in the head or the heart, or thoroughly blown up.
That may account for crime drop in some states, but not all. Illegals are not uniformly distributed around the country.
...and the crime drops occurred even during years when illegal immigration was high.
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