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There's a catch, though. No one can convincingly explain exactly how the crime problem was solved. Police chiefs around the country credit improved police work. Demographers cite changing demographics of an aging population. Some theorists point to the evolution of the drug trade at both the wholesale and retail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind America's Falling Crime Rate | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

Common sense, you might think. But this is not a popular conclusion among criminologists, according to Conklin. "There is a tendency, perhaps for ideological reasons, not to want to see the connection," he says. Incarceration is to crime what amputation is to gangrene - it can work, but a humane physician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind America's Falling Crime Rate | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

The Data-Processing Factor In interviews with police chiefs across the country, TIME heard the same story again and again. It is the saga of a revolution in law enforcement, a new way of battling the bad guys, and it begins, at least in some tellings, with a colorful New...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind America's Falling Crime Rate | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

The danger of chronic joblessness is that jobs are a part of the social fabric. Ideally, they connect people to constructive projects and well-ordered institutions. They foster self-discipline and reward responsibility. Some optimists theorize that crime rates might continue to drop in coming years as police pit their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind America's Falling Crime Rate | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

This Valentine's Day, more of us than ever will be looking for love online. And if recent studies are any guide, relatively few women on mainstream dating sites will bother to respond to overtures from men of Asian descent. Likewise, black women will be disproportionately snubbed by men of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeking My Race-Based Valentine Online | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

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