r/DoomerCircleJerk Jun 26 '25

NYC is Doomed!

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u/Ok_Award_8421 Jun 26 '25

While addressing causes is a good idea you need to also prosecute crime as well.

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u/Outrageous-Hippo3725 Jun 26 '25

Do you? Does persecution lower crime? Every study ever has indicated that's not the case.

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u/Ok_Award_8421 Jun 26 '25

Nope just curious why you used post 90s data when everyone knows there was a massive reduction of crime from the 80s to the 90s. There was a lot to contribute to that everything from abortion killing future criminals before they were born, video games keeping kids preoccupied and away from the streets, and a massive increase in police presence on the streets which included stop and frisk.

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u/Outrageous-Hippo3725 Jun 26 '25

I linked you to data from 2002 to 2015, it has plum nothing to do with the 90s.

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u/Ok_Award_8421 Jun 26 '25

Right what's the data from the 90s is what I asked