Alfred Blumstein
Alfred Blumstein
Alfred Blumsteinis an American scientist and the J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research at the Heinz College and Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the top researchers in criminology and operations research...
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Rural areas are lagging because they are the last front in the 1980s crime wave that started with crack in the big cities and put guns in the hands of kids in gangs and outside gangs.
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Congress is like the call girls. People don't feel the impact directly.
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The declines are relatively small compared to larger, steady drops in the 1990s, and the results are by no means the same across the country,