"We're seeing big swings in criminal justice policies, programs, and rhetoric, big advances in crime-fighting technologies, and big social, economic, and cultural shifts all happening at the same time," CCJ President and CEO Adam Gelb said in a statement. "It's extremely difficult to disentangle and pinpoint what's actually driving the drop. As a result, we have a battle of sound bites and abundant claims of credit but scarce hard evidence to back them up."
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Gelb said the broad crime rate decreases have made some criminologists question historic understandings of what drives trends in violent crime and how to battle it.
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