I am often asked why crime rates came down in the United States after the mid-1990s. There is the obvious reason that mass incarceration via the incapacitation effect that reduces crime by removing criminals from our streets. Sixty percent of state prisoners (most prisoners) are violent offenders (murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault), and around half of nonviolent offenders are there for serious property offenses (burglary, theft-larceny, motor vehicle theft). More police on our streets has helped, as well, confirmed by the fact that depolicing is associated with a rise of crime over the last decade (which elites are partially obscuring by manipulating crime data).
But there are other reasons. Getting lead out of the environment helped. Lead is a neurotoxin associated with aggression and impulse control. Another environmental factor is the constellation of synthetic estrogens that has emasculated the population; males in America are being feminized (along with other animals). On the technological front, the introduction and mass use of computers and video games has taken teenagers and young men off the streets and put them in front of screens (this has also had the effect of dropping fertility rates, exacerbated by the feminization problem). Since serious crime is largely perpetrated by young males (a fact well known for centuries), it follows that emasculating men and taking them out of the social environment will reduce crime.
There are no other reasons I can think of. The military is no longer absorbing young men. Indeed, recruitment is down. Social programs don’t suppress criminogenesis. On the contrary, these have the opposite effect through family disintegration. If you have any other ideas, let me know.
Crime remains high in black-majority inner-city neighborhoods comparatively. This is partly because of the aforementioned problem with family disintegration caused by social programming (government dependency) and the relatively low level of technological distraction (this is not to say that young blacks don’t have access to technology). But it is also because of the pathological subculture of violence associated with social programming and economic policy, especially the idling of black males through globalization (offshoring and immigration). This pathological subculture is reinforced by corporate culture industry targeting of the black demographic, which reinforces demoralizing libertine sensibilities.
It should be obvious to readers that what lies behind the continuing problem of crime in America (which is remarkable in comparison to other advanced industrial economies) is the corporate state project of transnationalism, which includes both offshoring of production and the importation of foreign labor, and the progressive social policy regime that Democrats have imposed on America’s cities.
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