Re: crime stats.

[Doug Henwood]

Jim Devine wrote:

>What's the leftist explanation of this trend?

A couple of years ago, I interviewed a bunch of crime pundits on the 
downtrend. The consensus was: 1) the decline of crack (driven, 
several of them said, by younger people seeing how ravaged their 
older siblings and neighbors were by the drug), 2) a smaller teen 
population, and 3) community policing. I can't vouch for these 
explanations, but they were given by people from the "left" to the 
center.

Doug