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To: combjelly who wrote (360513)	11/27/2007 8:00:38 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575615

You grew up in the 40s, 50s, and early 60s. Different story. People who were children then recall a much more peaceful time than now, and it was. The violent crime rate in 1960 was under 200 per 100,000, less than 40 percent what it is today. Crime spiked upward around 1963 and increased rapidly during the late 60s and early 70s. For baby boomers--and your columnist confesses to being one--this accords closely with their perception of what happened during those years: things started getting crazy after the Kennedy assassination, got worse during the urban riots of the late 60s, and were seriously bad by the 70s. murder in the 20s and early 30s were up due to prohibition not economics. Remember the 20s were roaring economically