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Joe Biden is correct that violent crime is near a 50-year low (www.poynter.org)

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 61 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Start of leaded gasoline bans:

1970

[–] zout@fedia.io 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Roe vs Wade:

1973

[–] player2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This was the research done by Freakonomics!

We estimate that crime fell roughly 20% between 1997 and 2014 due to legalized abortion. The cumulative impact of legalized abortion on crime is roughly 45%, accounting for a very substantial portion of the roughly 50-55% overall decline from the peak of crime in the early 1990s.

Podcast revisiting this research with sources at the bottom:
https://freakonomics.com/podcast/abortion-and-crime-revisited/

This is the revisited research paper showing the connection (PDF):
https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/BFI_WP_201975.pdf

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