"Last I checked , drug prohibition began much earlier than the 1980s . The '80s fall in violent crime is more likely a result of the legalization of abortion than it is a result of the `` success of the war on drugs. ``"
"Demographics plays a role , but it does not explain away the whole shift in the numbers ."
"The '80s fall in violent crime is more likely a result of the legalization"
"Demographics plays a role , but it does not explain away the whole shift"