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by mcmoor 1042 days ago
For specifically the 90s, its crime rate is genuinely better than the absolute horrible time of 70s and 80s. To this day when we say "crime is decreasing", in a fraud way we always compare it to those peak bad times even though compared to 90s it creeps back up (all of this is US specific). With collapse of Soviet Union and absolute victory of Gulf War, western world and especially USA is in euphoria until 9/11.