The trend continues. Data this week from the FBI (full report is still unpublished, this is preliminary data) shows that New York is the safest big city in America. Meanwhile, crime in the red states is increasing.

I wonder, does this mean that the Freakonomics people were right about legalized abortion leading to lower crime with a 30 year lag? New York was, after all, the first to truly legalize abortion on demand. Or, does this just mean that high levels of incarceration are not effective since it only delays the problem?



Interesting, those blue states just keep looking better and better.