Overall Crime has on average been on the decline since the 1980s, following a sharp rise in incarceration rates.
Except that it didn't, dipshit. Rapes increased since the 80s until the early 90s. Murders increased. Property Crime increased. Aggravated assault increased.Robbery increased. Theft increased.
United States Crime Rates1960 - 2013
The only thing that went down was car theft. And that was a product of technology. Not incarceration.
Try again.
Saying correlation doesn't equal causation, and just ignoring the positive correlation between high incarceration rates and lower crime rates is just lazy.
See above above about how murder, rape, property crime, theft, aggravated assault and robbery all increased from the early 80s to the early 90s. This despite an increase in incarceration in the early 80s, by your own admission.
And of course, the increase in prison rates didn't begin in the early 80s. But the late 60s and early 70s.
And yet crime rates didn't start coming down until 1994. A full quarter century after the incarceration rates began to climb. So much for your 'causation'. Incarceration rates increased and crime increased for a quarter century.
But incarceration rates cause lower crime rates? That quarter century of contradiction kicks the shit out of your assumptions.
Try again, dipshit.
Because scholars across the aisle on the issue agree that high incarceration is responsible for at least a 25% reduction in the overall crime rate since the 1990s.
Why Crime Keeps Falling - WSJ
Laughing.....Let the backpedalling begin! So it went from 'incarceration is why the crime rate went down' to 'incarceration is about 25% of why the crime rate went down'. The very best support you managed to find for your claim cut your assertions by 3/4s.
And your *own sources* cites 4 different reasons for crime reduction: imprisonment, policing, environmental changes and less cocaine abuse. With imprisonment barely 1/4 of it.
And yet you ignore your own source to cling to your argument. And have jack shit to back your claims that 'integration caused the rise in crime'.
Is there any claim I can't run you off of?