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Message: <blockquote data-quote="refineryworker05" data-source="post: 4536520" data-attributes="member: 66082"><p>No this isn't true.  First off, many stricter laws were passed by democratic mayors and governors so your last sentence about democrats is fiction.  Also Crime started dropping in 1991, threes years before the 1994 crime bill, a bill which had a ton of support from democrats and was signed into law by Bill Clinton, and crime dropped all over the nation even in places that didn't implement longer sentences or get tough on crime stuff.  In fact, many nations in Europe saw an increase in crime from the 1970's into the 1990's just like America, and just like America they saw huge decreases in crime, but they didn't introduce get tough on crime measures.  So it is not at all clear why crime started dropping in 1991 in America.</p></blockquote><p></p>