As we all know here, material conditions have progressively been getting worse and worse. Based on pretty much all political theory, crime rates should also be going up with worse material conditions. But they haven't, in fact, crime rates have been going consistently down for the past 30 or so years. Why is that?
Crime is a common manifestation of despair; that's the metric you should be looking at. And baby despair is thru da roof
Also: lead