Ronald Reagan: “The truth is that crime sometimes has risen with population growth and…”

On the recordJune 19, 1984

The truth is that crime sometimes has risen with population growth and sometimes not; there's nothing historically inevitable about it.

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Republican · California

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Remarks at the Annual Conference of the National Sheriff's Association in Hartford, Connecticut

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