Interesting: murder rates are down from 1970 due to medical advances ,not fewer attempts

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This suggests that our cities are not safer than they were in the 70s and 80s, it’s just you have better medical tech

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Pretty much anyone who lived in the 70s could identify with that.

I never considered that... pretty cool, if depressing, post.

I've been telling people this for years about BR.

The combined efforts of EBR EMS and OLOL trauma care saves TONS of gunshot victims that would've died 10-20 years ago. BR murder rates would be 200+ a year if EMS and the ER were operating with the knowledge and tech they were using in 2005.

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The combined efforts of EBR EMS and OLOL trauma care saves TONS of gunshot victims that would've died 10-20 years ago. BR murder rates would be 200+ a year if EMS and the ER were operating with the knowledge and tech they were using in 2005.

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i heard it somewhere that we are not a less violent people, we just have better technology to make violence become assault and attempted murder instead of murder.

combine that with a cell phone and the ability to call emergency services and stay with somebody and listen to a 911 operator keep them alive instead of having to run inside to a land line.

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combine that with a cell phone and the ability to call emergency services and stay with somebody and listen to a 911 operator keep them alive instead of having to run inside to a land line.

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Obamaphones have saved so many lives

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For example, a 2002 study from Harvard Medical School found that murder rates would be five times

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Good grief, how gullible are you people?

Murder rate would be 5x higher? Holy hell

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The problem with this argument is that all manner of violent, property, and sexual crimes are down across the board from their 70s/80s heyday. You can debate the reasons why.

Also, “turning homicides into aggravated assaults” made me legit lol as I pull up to the court house this morning. Good job.

I do respect the mad nostalgia game of looking for the gray cloud in every positive bit of news in modern America, though. Respect.

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Yeah. It's a modest effect at best. It wasn't "medical advances" that caused the rate to start to plummet 1991ish.

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The problem with this argument is that all manner of violent, property, and sexual crimes are down across the board from their 70s/80s heyday.

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Along with non-criminal pathologies like abortion rate, teen pregnancy rate, etc.

yea thats complete and utter bullshite. Violence is way way down in most cities. Now it might not be as isolated as it was back then but violence in general is way down.

the 80-90s crack epidemic and drug culture in places like Baltimore, St Louis, Nola, even Los Angles and the herion epidemic in NYC in the 70s and early 80s and in places like Newark along with mob violence tells you this is BS.

there are less gun shot victims in general...plus all other violent crime is down.



if you are going to post things, atleast try and understand them and verify truth before just running at the mouth.