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Eli Lehrer, "Crime-Fighting and Urban Renewal," in The Public Interest (Fall 2000), 1112 16th Street N.W. #530, Washington, D.C. 20036.
"America's success in reducing crime ranks with welfare reform as the greatest social policy triumph of the 1990s," reports Lehrer, a contributing writer to The American Enterprise. And law-abiding residents of America's inner cities, where crime rates are highest, benefit most:
* Business flourishes. Cut crime and inner-city businesses stay open later, encouraging customers to shop in the neighborhood instead of going to a distant mall. Merchants are also more likely to join together and make neighborhoods more pleasant. When better businesses come in, citizen groups work together to get rid of more dubious enterprises, such as liquor stores and bars.
* Housing improves. Make neighborhoods safer, and landlords begin to build new ...