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Old 01-09-2015, 09:42 AM   #1190
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Re: So, New Yorkers

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Maybe. Or maybe it was on demand abortion. Or reduced lead exposure. Or something we haven't figured out yet.

Crime fell off a cliff with or without broken windows policing.
That's not proven. Even the authors of Freakonomics, from which you've borrowed the abortion argument, didn't assert that position.

The truth is it's probably a combination of these factors. But you cannot and never will be able to say that broken windows was not a contributing factor in NY.
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