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…showed last 75 words of 202 total…to look for reasons behind the sudden increase. They found that the reasons they chose to ignore in the first place where now still here staring them back in the face. At first they blamed social programs such as the lack of funds to combat the increasing crime rate. Then they moved on to the rise in welfare rates, drug abuse, and youthful unemployment. They even cited the baby boom which occurred some years earlier.