What happened in the 1970s and 80s that caused crime rates to increase so rapidly?

What happened in the 1970s and 80s that caused crime rates to increase so rapidly?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The lead crime thing is fake. The actual reason is age.
    All replies below are spam. All posters below are mentally moronic and have Down syndrome, and cannot read.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      what the frick? since when do you have reasonable answers?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >crack epidemic starts
      >number of young people declines
      >it's age
      what

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      A combination of this and heroin getting popular.

      People really don't remember how destructive the heroin epidemics of the 60s and 70s were. The average addict committed something like 200 crimes a year. They pretty much single handedly hollowed out inner cities. If you listen to anyone who was in a big city during that era, you'll hear stories about getting their car windows broken for the stereo and constant shit like that.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Why does heroin cause people to cause 200 crimes a year?
        Has meth or Fentanyl upped or lowered that rate?

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The economy was in the dumps for a lot of the 70s and it hit big cities the hardest. Homelessness was insane in NYC back then, even worse than now. Cocaine and heroin were much more common than today. Also black people migrated en masse after the Brown decision and ghettofied lots of otherwise peaceful Northern cities.

    • 2 years ago
      Chud Anon

      >Also black people migrated en masse after the Brown decision and ghettofied lots of otherwise peaceful Northern cities.

      Interested in this, tell me more?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        it wasnt by choice particularly. The federal government built the projects inside the cities, because at the time thats where all the manufacturing in the world was. They built all this public housing and moved poor rural blacks into the housing just in time for the 80's and the flight of most manufacturing to china and asia as a whole. Its one of those events in history that you look at like frickkkk, really we moved everyone here just in time for it to be the worst idea of the last 30 years.
        O and the person you responded to is moronic brown v board of education had almost nothing to do with it, redlining was used deep into the 80's, to stop black people moving where whites didnt. The migration of blacks into the inner city was desirable to fill jobs whites didnt want at the time.

        • 2 years ago
          Chud Anon

          Damn so the government just moved millions of people in while the corporations moved millions of jobs out. That’s fricked.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The migration of blacks into the cities was earlier, after WWI and WWII.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Even under slavery blacks were in group houses and at higher density than whites.
            It's just that their job was in rural areas.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Increased lead exposure, worsening inequality, and a large population of young people.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Third post best post

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why do many countries with much higher lead blood levels than the US (almost the entire world) have much lower crime?

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The Hart-Crllar Act passed in 1965.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Almost none of the crime wave is really attributable to immigrants who have a statistically lower crime rate whether legal or illegal tho

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Those numbers are skewed because immigrants who commit crimes are deported while native born criminals hang around for recidivism.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >immigrants who commit crimes are deported
          Depends on the offense.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        If we could exile criminals born in America it would be a lot easier and cheaper too.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Muh brown people

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Hispanic people le bad even though they only live in california

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        I fricking wish they were in one state

        Muh brown people

        Correct.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          well back then they were yeah
          your map only shows black American cities too

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Also Spokane but they don't count because antifa.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >NOOOO THESE PEOPLE ARE OUTNUMBERING ME IN THE LAND I STOLE
          lol

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Seething

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Mass immigration and Black civil rebellion. Then came the police state.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Sexual Revolution in 60’ and 70’
    Decline came from abortion legalization

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Nogs were allowed to run rampant with the advent of desegregation. The races were never supposed to mix and the millions of white casualties are the cost of such idealism.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous


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      What happened in the 1970s and 80s that caused crime rates to increase so rapidly? (OP)
      Well done

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Oh yeah that's why apartheid made South Africa so safe...

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    Which Maoists? You're probably getting mixed up with ZANU-PF, which wasn't explicitly Maoist but received money and training from the Chinese and North Koreans.

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    You are both wrong, society is collapsing from peak oil.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      2 more weeks

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    Historically some black/African nationalists were socialists, but not Maoists specifically.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >civil rights act
    >whites relaxed
    >grave mistake

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The rise of Suburbia led to a sinister cabal of real estate con artists and social utopians "engineers" to hollow out the nations urban areas to create economically and socially ruinous (but very profitable for the cabal) car focused suburbs. Blacks got blamed because they were the ones too poor to actually move out, and so got left holding the bag. Doesn't help that this happened at the same time that America was gutting it's own industrial sector in the name of Bipartisan NeoLiberal "Financialization"

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Hart-Cellar.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Dumbest possible reply. Doesn't even have the the timing right.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Leftists being soft on crime. Thats the only explanation needed. Once mass incarceration and longer sentences became a thing crime went down.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Wow a literal moron, we incarcerate more people than any nation on the planet as a percentage of population, while not having close to the worst crime rates.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Revisionism. Crime in America fell at the same time it fell elsewhere.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    Yes corporations do just delete jobs even today. It's called closing a factory or division, outsourcing, offshoring, or whatever else they do to save costs. As the white working class moved into better service industry jobs, like banks, telecom, and other things better than pulling levers, the idea with federal project housing was to move the indigent into the cities and have them take over the lowest rung of industry. And yes this didn't just happen in like 1979 and then everything went to shit. It took decades on both ends. But the goal of giving the poor minorities access to the same jobs that made the white middle class insanely well off by world standards did not work out and it was because the golden period of post WW2 us manufacturing was over, and shit was headed offshore.

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    Red lining wasn't ended until after the crime spike was into free fall.

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Reasons.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They closed the asylums without any fallback plan. There were tons of mentally unstable people with no therapy no meds and often no one who wanted to take care of them.

    be schizo, do crimes

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    rapid consolidation of a agricultural industries forced a large segment of the rural population to migrate to urban areas

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    >and tanked property values
    You mean the factories closed.

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    No. Factories closed as American jobs were sent to the third world and people bought more foreign goods. Then local tax revenue fell, buildings were left empty, and people turned to drugs and alcohol. With government funds running low, infrastructure crumbled, and anyone with money or business just left, leaving only those too destitute to leave or too attached to their homes. Even worse, some city governments prioritized social welfare payments over keeping the city operational.

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    It's economics, not magic. Because of labor costs and changing consumer demands, American car manufacturers either closed or outsourced their work abroad. Consumers wanted more fuel efficient designs, and workers in Asia and Latin America weren't unionized.

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    >waaah waaah I can't be assed to think about Econ 101 because of black people
    I accept your concession.

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    >all of them had depressive effect on local economies
    Source?

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    When the US accepted millions of immigrants from the 1870s to 1920s it had several periods of explosive growth and industrialization, and there was a lot of land the government sold at very low prices. This was the opposite of deindustrialization.

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    I've read about this in books and history class, and some of my ancestors came over here from poor parts of Europe in that time period. That picture in

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    shows a tenement. The residents were very poor but not because businesses were leaving the city. They just had low wages with no worker protection laws, and public sanitation and infrastructure wasn't great.

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    Only if you have very limited productive capacity and no more room.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    NYC in 1870 wasn't like it is today. Most cities were less extensive and of course had no high rises, and building safety codes and current zoning laws didn't exist. Large tracts of arable land further inland were almost uninhabited because the Indians had been pushed out, and the total population was under 40m.

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

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    You claimed in

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    and

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    and

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    that poor immigrants tanked the economy when they came over. But the US economy boomed starting from 1879, and millions of immigrants filled the growing need for workers. Poor people were still trampled on, but not because the immigrants took everything. This was just before labor laws, trade unions, antitrust laws, etc.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Okay so how do farmers with no education in industry make industry "boom"? And please answer with an educated sourced post this time

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You don't need very much special training to work in a factory canning food or making clothes, or building railroads or skyscrapers. Off the top of my head, I know that most of the victims of the notorious 1913 fire in a NYC garment factory were poor israelites or Italians. The owners were israelites too. In the resulting court case, the defense successfully filed a motion against letting witnesses testify with the aid of a translator, and because some key witnesses were ESL immigrants, it was much harder for them to testify. The factory owners were acquitted. I read all this in David von Drehle's book "Triangle: The Fire That Changed America."

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          okay so somehow magically everybody got menial labor entry level jobs and you have no source for this, you believe it because you haven't learned anything to the contrary

          great, thanks for wasting my time

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Why would that be unusual?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            why would 100% employment for illiterate dirt farmer refugees from europe in city centers be unusual? are you mentally moronic?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Where'd I say 100% employment?

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            listen if you're going to play semantics this is over and I accept your concession

            you have no idea what you're talking about

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            What's semantic about it?

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    a combination of drugs and a large population of younger people with no money and nothing to do but start shit (and drugs). a pretty big reason - not the biggest, of course - for crime rates dropping shortly after these decades is because young people had more video games to occupy themselves with instead of breaking windows and shit.

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