The murder trends of prohibition
As a continuation to my previous post on John Lott's work I found the image below.
The upward trends appear to be well in place before the policies take hold, but the duration and drop off with policy repeal seems to fit pretty well.
Not even one control variable? Totally weak.
The color scheme matched the addiction. I couldn't resist.
Some of the upward trend before national prohibition was probably due to individual states passing prohibition laws on their own.