i can't tell if you are trolling me with this correlation means causation garbage. Countries that have social protections were already low crime before they gave any protections, the low crime came first before anyone discussed helping them unless you are dumb enough to believe people wanted to pay murderers not to murder and thought it would work. As for the last line, violent people are poor because they poor impulse control, not poor people are violent because they don't have money. Give it some thought and it is obvious, the correlation is there for obvious reasons.