From: JD (daugh@home.msen.com)
Date: Fri Jun 06 1997 - 04:46:58 MDT
Demographics + incredible US incarceration rate!
Max More wrote:
> For those who think society is in an inevitable decline: The FBI just
> released their crime figures (no, not crimes *by* the FBI--those they
> don't
> reveal!). Violent crime dropped for the fifth year in a row in the
> USA,
> this time by 7%. This includes an 11% decline in murders (16.5%
> decline
> here in LA).
>
> Of course, government agencies want to take the credit, though it's
> really
> not clear why this downward trend is happening. The LA Times story
> speculating that it's because the baby boomers are aging and there are
>
> fewer young people (who mostly commit the violent crimes). This may
> contribute, though I find it doubtful that this alone would result in
> such
> a rapid decline in violent crime.
>
> All is hardly well in this country, but this 5-year trend is
> encouraging.
>
> Max
>
> Max More, Ph.D.
> more@extropy.org
> http://www.primenet.com/~maxmore
> Author: The Augmented Animal (Forthcoming: HardWired, 1998)
> President, Extropy Institute: exi-info@extropy.org,
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