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The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforce­ment Act of 1994authorized the creation of an intergovernmental grant programwithin the U.S. Department of Justice to fund the hiring andrede­ployment of 100,000 additional community polic­ingofficers on America's streets. The program that administers thegrants is the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services(COPS).

Suggest about the long-term impact on crime? one of the studys coauthors joins me now, john donahue has a ph.d. in economics. so dr. donahue, essentially what youre saying is that a generation of criminals were never born. is that right? >> well, essentially it suggests that the cohort that was born after the legalization of abortion just came up with more benign life circumstances and adverse circumstances do promote higher rates of all sorts of socially unhelpful behavior, including crime. >> ...

Isnt the real lesson for policymakers get ready to provide the sort of social services that these children are going to require so as to rescue them or avert a life that might lead to crime? >> yeah. well, i think there are two things. one is that if youre going to remove the ability for abortion and youre concerned about the impact on crime over the next 20 years or so, you certainly want to reduce unwanted pregnancies through sex education, better contraception. and if those children are born ...

The impact on crime? because theres data that suggests more abortion equals less crime. you remember the 2005 best seller freakonomics it connected the dots from a lower crime rate to the legalization of abortion based on a study that he had done with his fellow economist john donahue who will join me in just a moment. from 1991 until 2001, violent crime in the u.s. fell more than 30%, decline not seen since the end of prohibition. and in may of 2001, after crunching the data they published a st...