Comments on: As City Murder Rate Drops 23 Percent, Kelly To Discuss Staffing Woes http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/32522/as-city-murder-rate-drops-23-percent-kelly-to-discuss-staffing-woes.html Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:26:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.9 By: nowecant http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/32522/as-city-murder-rate-drops-23-percent-kelly-to-discuss-staffing-woes.html#comment-127121 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:07:05 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=32522#comment-127121 drugs should be decriminalized since it should be treated like alcoholism an addiction not a crime, then you would take away the incentive for illegal activity.

]]> By: akuperma http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/32522/as-city-murder-rate-drops-23-percent-kelly-to-discuss-staffing-woes.html#comment-127101 Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:56:39 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=32522#comment-127101 Could it be that violent crime was drug related, and what moves the illegal drug business is affluent upper class consumers of drugs (the innter city types are sellers, but not typically buyers). As the economy declines, the demand falls, since things like Crack are luxuries. Less Wall Streeters buying drugs, less drugs being traded, less crime.

The test of this hypothesis is whether consumption of expensive brands of liquor is falling (also a luxury good), and perhaps whether the rate of rape is falling (since it is non-economic and should move independently).

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