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Originally Posted by knucklesplitter
I'm not understanding this cause/effect here.
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There is no cause/effect, or if there is, it's obscured by a different event.
Basically, the huge drop in poverty in the 1960's didn't correlate to the crime rate of the same decade because the drop was due to the civil rights movement. The inequality of segregation not only pushed people into poverty, it also suppressed violent crime... after all who would commit even a non-violent crime if you knew you'd be hung for it (or some trumped up charges) because you were black? So even though poverty was high, crime was not.
I guess I'm just saying that my theory probably doesn't apply pre-1970 unless you factor in relative poverty within the white and black casts during the years of segregation.
Then again, I could be totally way off base. I haven't studied the civil rights movement since high school.