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He lifted that entire theory from this book: <br /><br /><br /><img src="http://www.npr.org/programs/wesat/features/2005/apr/freakonomics/freakonomicscover.jpg" alt="" /><br /><br /><br />One of the ideas set forth in Freakonomics is that the massive drop in the crime rate beginning in (I think the book gives the date as) the early '90s is the fact that it correlated with the years that all the babies who were aborted the first year after Roe vs Wade would be turning their early to mid teens. If abortion were not legal there would be more lower income kids on the streets ostensibly commiting crimes of all sorts. Levitt tries to blast holes in the idea that brilliant policing and new police tactics droppped the crime rate, as the government and politicians would have you believe.<br /><br />Freakonomics was on the New York Times bestseller list for a large part of the past year, might still be. A lot of people have read it. My guess is whats-his-name took that idea from the book. Dude can't even construct an original racist thought on his own.
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