For an alternate viewpoint, see “Counterpoint: The 1994 Crime Bill’s Legacy — Thirty Years of Failure.” By the early 1990s, the United States had experienced dramatic and unprecedented surges in crime, with the violent crime rate up 470 percent from 1961 and the murder rate up 92 percent from that year. Life in American cities was more […]
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Joshua Crawford is the director of criminal justice initiatives at the Georgia Center for Opportunity. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.