Two somewhat related articles caught my eye:
The first — Crime is falling, still – reports that the number of violent crimes in the United States dropped significantly last year, to .. the lowest rate in nearly 40 years
In all regions, the country appears to be safer. The odds of being murdered or robbed are now less than half of what they were in the early 1990s, when violent crime peaked in the United States.
The trend is a bit puzzling since it runs counter to the prevailing expectation that crime would increase during a recession.
That’s good news.
The bad news:
Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis said that one of the consequences of an owners’ lockout and a lost NFL season will be an increase in crime,
Lewis says:
“Do this research if we don’t have a season — watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game. “
“There’s too many people that live through us, people live through us,” he said. “Yeah, walk in the streets, the way I walk the streets, and I’m not talking about the people you see all the time.”
When asked why he thought crime would increase if the NFL doesn’t play games this year, Lewis said: “There’s nothing else to do on Sundays”.
If anybody knows crime, it should be Ray Lewis …
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P.S. In a family chat on the topic, the overwelming sntiment was that Ray Lewis is right … crime will rise is the NFL doesn’t play.
Aren’t there any recreational options between watching football and mugging somebody?
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The Homa Files 
May 31, 2011 at 11:04 am |
It is a Marxian fallacy to believe that all human activities (good and bad) can be explained by the presence or absence of wealth. Poverty does not always produce crime; crime however often produces poverty.