Title: What Caused Crime to Decline in the U.S.? - The Atlantic
Headings: What Caused the Great Crime Decline in the U.S.?
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I remember the 1990s as a pretty good time for economic growth. Maybe that offered less incentive for crime.
I’m a little skeptical a Supreme Court opinion could reduce crime rates two decades later.

Content: And then they kept going down. By decade’s end, the homicide rate plunged 42 percent nationwide. Violent crime decreased by one-third. What turned into a precipitous decline started later in some areas and took longer in others. But it happened everywhere: in each region of the country, in cities large and small, in rural and urban areas alike. In the Northeast, which reaped the largest benefits, the homicide rate was halved. Murders plummeted by 75 percent in New York City alone as the city entered the new millennium. The trend kept ticking downward from there, more slowly and with some fluctuations, to the present day. By virtually any metric, Americans now live in one of the least violent times in the nation’s history.