> Well, let’s just say it is inarguable that beginning with the late Silent Generation and continuing through the Baby Boomers, #crime went through the roof.
Lol, no, it is absolutely arguable.
Don't get me wrong, I like your hypothesis, and I would love to believe the article. It's just that the evidentiary basis of that article is the purest trash.
100% of what we know about the rate of crime in this country comes from police, and if you are unaware of how police departments manipulate crime statistics by selective enforcement to make themselves look good – a phenomenon that really came in with the introduction of computers to policing in exactly the relevant timeframe – you really need to look into that.
We know almost nothing about crime in this country. What we think we know about crime, we actually know about police.
Are Boomers disproportionately antisocial? Maybe. But you can't tell that from cooked data.
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