On: Falling Crime: Where have all the burglars gone?

[vacri]

It could still be the main driving force, and it just so happened that an associated force or two started a little earlier.

[RyanMcGreal → vacri]

But violence has been declining steadily for the past 400 years. Something other than the internet must be behind that.

[EGreg → RyanMcGreal]

No, it was all the internet! :)

But seriously ... I think that, although before it was not the internet, now the internet has accelerated it.