The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994authorized the creation of an intergovernmental grant programwithin the U.S. Department of Justice to fund the hiring andredeployment of 100,000 additional community policingofficers on America's streets. The program that administers thegrants is the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services(COPS).
and liberals thought it smacked of eugenics. they cited other variables that authors neglected made the abortion effect on crime disappear. back in 2001, levitt and donahue project what had the numbers might look like after 20 years if their thesis held. in 2020 they followed up by looking what had transpired and published a new piece. impact of legalized abortion on crime over the last two decades. looking at the data from 1997 to 2014 they found a similar pattern in states with the highest abortion rates, crime rates had fallen 60% more than in the states that had the lowest abortion rates. look, it s a discomfortable argument, no matter where you stand on abortion, it turns unhappy, private event into a positive public outcome, but even given all that now with the prospect of half the states readying to effectively ban abortion, what does this study