Alfred Blumstein Quotations

The declines are relatively small compared to larger, steady drops in the 1990s, and the results are by no means the same across the country,

Rural areas are lagging because they are the last front in the 1980s crime wave that started with crack in the big cities and put guns in the hands of kids in gangs and outside gangs.

it might mean the South is becoming more like the rest of the country.

Congress is like the call girls. People don't feel the impact directly.