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Originally Posted by JonL
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I'm not at all a fan of Rudy Guliani, but I have to give him props for turning NYC around. His focus on "quality of life" crimes eventually made people realize that antisocial behavior was unacceptable and even in the most depressed parts of the city people just got tired of being criminals. It's almost as if criminal behavior went out of style. .
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The book Freakenomics has an argument that it wasn't Guiliani that reduced crime in NYC but Roe v Wade.
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