From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   Peter Schleifer  wrote:   
   >On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:26:46 -0500, Stephen Sprunk  wrote:   
      
   >>They're also ignoring the fact that murder rates are down nationwide   
   >>since peaking in the late 1980s/early 1990s; it was the banning of   
   >>leaded gasoline and the end of the crack wars that did it, not cops.   
      
   >I have read of studies which showed that Roe v. Wade was also a   
   >contributing factor in the decline in crime rates in the 90's.  So, if   
   >this is true, we should look for correlations between laws which   
   >reduce the availability of abortion services in an area with increases   
   >in the crime rates 18-25 years later.   
      
   That was popularized by the Freakanomics authors.   
      
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