Didn't freakenomocs claim it (crime rate) was (primarilary) about abortion in the 1970s and less unwanted (and unsupervised/undisciplined) children growing up?

These charts make the exact point I was making.

Most of the crime decrease from its peak happened before the year 2000.

That means back in the days of law enforcement needing to do low-tech wiretapping techniques, crime was still rapidly decreasing.

There’s just not even a correlation. And, as a reminder, correlation is not causation even if it was there.