“Looks like the peak year for violent crime and murder was in 1991 (assuming this chart is any good).”
Funny the author of Freakonimcs traces part of this reduced crime rates and reduction of violent back to Roe v Wade. As those potential would be criminals would be coming of age they are now gone. Not making any argument for abortion but it was an interesting point.
The same argument of too much information can be seen in sports. How would Babe ruth or Micky mantele been percieved in todays modern age of information.