Tuesday, February 11, 2014

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO RICK PERRY

He recently said "...about Portugal and the legalization of drugs there. In the five years since that has occurred there, 40 percent increase in the murder rate in that country."

Perry is mostly correct as you can see in this chart from a 2011 study:
The other part of the story is the continued decline in the homicide rate:


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