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The Culture War #18 - Emma Vigeland & Sean Fitzgerald, Debating Crime And Social Issues

The Culture War Podcast with Tim Pool

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The Rise and Fall of the US Murder Rate

Sally Kohn: Donald Trump's first step act is absolutely terrible. It sets up a bunch of incentives, and that's one of the reasons why a huge portion of the increase in homicide that we're seeing is among young men. She says there was a temporary kind of sugar high based on neoliberal policies of Reagan and Clinton where there was a lot of money released back into the public because of massive tax cuts. And then the income inequality kind of set in and the rich got richer and the poor got poorer.Kohn: Let me show you guys something which will add some context to the current crime spike. The murder rate dropped more than violent crime in general because people weren't dying

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