Clown World Resident wrote:
kibitzer wrote:
Sorry, can't answer: I'm not a Dem. In fact I have never (not once) cast a ballot on the Democratic line--for any office, in any election--in a half-century as a voter.
Though the lock-'em-up policies of the Clinton years may have had long-term effects--in that very few incarcerated men were fathering children with a genetic/situational predisposition toward crime--I genuinely think that Roe v. Wade (1973) has been an important factor in the continuing decline of crime rates under both Dem and GOP presidents: fewer unwanted children born into difficult circumstances ==> fewer crimes. (So we'll see whether the GOP-led abortion restrictions show up in higher crime rates in the later part of this decade and beyond. I'm doubtful.)
But I *am* interested to see what the 2020 numbers (won't be final until nearly the end of this year, I believe) and 2021 numbers will show. I would expect a considerable drop in crime for 2020 and would not be suprised to see an increase in 2021: fewer people out and about last year, many more (with pent-up "demand") this year.
A confounding factor in 2021 could be the rapidly-improving economy, though: During more prosperous times the crime rates seem somewhat more likely to drop. So the final figures for 2021--which are at least two years away, I guess--will be interesting.
You don't need to wait two years for FBI statistics or academic papers to see crime is on the rise, you can go out and see it.
Holy cow. One wants to believe that a post like this is a joke, but unfortunately, it isn't. The country is 3,000 miles wide. There are 330 million people. There are dozens of large cities, hundreds of cities, and thousands upon thousands of towns. One CANNOT walk out the door and figure out how crime is throughout the country and how that compares to recent years and decades. My god. You know, like for hundreds of thousands of years humans looked around and said, "The world is flat." They were as wrong about that as you are about what you can single-handidly perceive about just about anything from your isolated perch.