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by deafpolygon 23 days ago
> Violent crime against children has fallen steadily since the early 1990s. Stranger abductions, the thing every parent imagines when they hesitate to let a 10-year-old walk to a friend’s house, were rare in 1985 and are rarer today.

Well, we stopped letting kids wander -- certainly that has an impact on the statistics.