CNN Smerconish June 4, 2024 13:19:00
I'm a numbers cruncher. i'm just telling you what the data shows. is that where you're coming from? or are you an advocate? >> no. when we did the study, we were just trying to understand one of the most profound social events in american history, which was the very dramatic drop in crime that was observed in the 1990s and it turned out that the data supported this conclusion. then we made predircks if our thesis were correct, we would see about 1% drops in crime over the next 20 years. and that's what the subsequent paper actually indicated. so, we feel that the empirical evidence is fairly s...