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fafalone t1_jdyt29l wrote

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Computer technology got us the lowest murder rate in a century.

What, you can't just impute causation to whatever has a correlation?

Studied directly, the war on drugs has been an epic disaster, and crime fell entirely independent of it.

The murder rate fell despite the war on drugs funneling trillions to gangs and cartels, making them more powerful than ever.

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IRequirePants t1_jdyux74 wrote

> Computer technology got us the lowest murder rate in a century.

COMPSTAT certainly helped.

I guess the difference here is that "War on Drugs" directly funneled money into police. It isn't tangential. It's directly related.

Now, if you want to say the War on Drugs had massive amounts of waste and other related societal harms, then sure. Over-incarceration, "stop-and-frisk" violations, etc.

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