![]() ![]() Instead, though, Levitt explains the drop with the story of Norma McCorvey, a young Dallas woman who wanted an abortion more than 20 years before. Seeking to explain the drop, experts proposed a handful of new theories, such as the roaring 1990s economy, gun control laws, and innovative policing strategies. No one, not even the experts, had anticipated this. By the year 2000, the overall murder rate was the lowest it had been in 35 years. All categories of crime fell, not just certain ones, and the teenage murder rate fell more than 50 percent within five years. Suddenly, though, crime began to fall, consistently decreasing year after year. ![]() Even President Clinton said that something had to be done about the juvenile problem or America would be plunged into chaos. The media always portrayed each criminal as a heartless thug and insinuated that there was a whole generation of killers behind him. Violent crime was constant, and experts predicted it was only going to get worse. Stephen Levitt begins the introduction by discussing the drastic rise in crime in the early 1990s. ![]()
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