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    5 days ago

    And before ice it was just as bad, if not worse.

    Violent crime has been going down since the 1970s after abortion was legalized, birth control pills were available, and lead was reduced.

    Both my parents came from a small town that in the 1950s had an ordinance that blacks could be shot if in the city limits, after sunset, if without a white escorting them .

    Lots and lots of violence happened in the USA that was not reported in the news. The murder rates from previous decades are very much underestimated.