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What Caused the Great Crime Decline in the U.S.?
In the early 1990s, U.S. crime rates had been on a steep upward climb since the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency. The crack-cocaine epidemic in the mid-1980s added fuel to the fire, and handgun-related homicides more than doubled between 1985 and 1990. That year, murders peaked in New York City with 2,245 killings. Politicians embraced tough-on-crime platforms and enacted harshly punitive policies. Experts warned the worst could be yet to come.
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There is a similar assumption on one of the chapters of Levitt and Dubner´s Freakonomics. They trace it back to Roe v. Wade and the legalization of abortion in the United States.