Explaining the crime wave of the 1980's.

I’ve written a few posts about the increase in 2020. A more interesting question is why things were so much worse in the 1980's.

Public perception tends to be confused. A majority of voters think that crime gets worse, every year. But the reality is that there are trends, it comes and goes for various reasons.

Let’s zoom out for the 100 year view. Wikipedia offers this graph:

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