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America’s incarceration rate is in decline

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239 points paulpauper | 1 comments | 25 Jun 25 17:14 UTC | HN request time: 1.196s | source
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holmesworcester ◴[25 Jun 25 18:10 UTC] No.44380228[source]▶
How much of this is due to smartphones? The years seem to line up.

2014 seemed like the big year where smartphone ubiquity changed US teen culture. Less boredom, dumb adventure, drinking, etc. (For better or worse but in this case better.)

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1. redwood ◴[26 Jun 25 03:02 UTC] No.44383853[source]▶
A big part. But pagers too. The decline of drug "turf" crime when things transitioned to networks of contacts correlated with the decline in violence on the streets which probably only accelerated with smart phones. No longer worth fighting over corners.