Gladiator

"....the programming oversight made it difficult to pick up other factors that might have influenced crime rates during the 1980s and 1990s, like the crack wave that waxed and waned during that period. He also argues that in producing the research, Mr. Levitt should have counted arrests on a per-capita basis. Instead, he counted overall arrests. After he adjusted for both factors, Mr. Foote says, the abortion effect disappeared..."

No one makes the conculsion of the Mexico City Policy and 24 years later the US has a large immigration problem of illegal immigrants from South America.

Abortion was not made legal to prevent homocide by 14 to 19 year olds. Also, using Crack as a factor to ignore homocides, begs the question of accidental parenting, which is the issue, which may have contributed to the Crack epidemic.

So saying the murder rate was reduced because the Crack epidmic subsided, not because fewer youngsters had accidental parenting, may have been the REASON the Crack epidemic reduced in the first place, because fewer youngsters had accidental parenting.

Da.

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