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Appendix A Dissent--James Q. Wilson
Pages 269-271

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... Lott argued that murder rates decline after the adoption of RTC laws even after allowing for the effect of other variables that affect crime rates.
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... are essential to understanding crime. Suppose Professor Jones wrote a paper saying that increasing the number of police in a city reduced the crime rate and Professor Smith wrote a rival paper saying that cities with few police officers have low crime rates.
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... Even if the use of newer data calls into question the original Lott findings, a more reasonable conclusion is that Lott's findings depend on crime rate trends. The committee correctly notes that between 1977 and 1992 crime rates were rising rapidly while between 1993 and 1997 they were declining.
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