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For all you sociologist. What's your theory on this?
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By most measures, New York City is safer than it's been in a half-century. The city recorded just 418 murders in 2012 — the lowest total since record keeping began in the early 1960s.
•Changing demographics plays it's part. Young professionals and new arrivals from Yemen and Russia are not killing each other off at the pace of the declining African American population.
•More income diversity in communities once dominated by poverty.
•Reinvestment in blighted areas.
•Strong economy, NYC fared well through the recession.
What about the role that the decline in the crack epidemic has played in reducing murders? I don't hear about the types of drug turf shootouts today like you had going on in the late 80's to early 90's.
What about the role that the decline in the crack epidemic has played in reducing murders? I don't hear about the types of drug turf shootouts today like you had going on in the late 80's to early 90's.
That goes for pretty much every area of the country.
For all you sociologist. What's your theory on this?
A native from Queens told me it was all of the cops in New York. Basically, crime hasn't went down at all, but the rate at which people were getting apprehended has went up. More crime prevention than anything else.
•Changing demographics plays it's part. Young professionals and new arrivals from Yemen and Russia are not killing each other off at the pace of the declining African American population.
Yemen is an al-Qaida stronghold. I hope these yemenites can behave themselves in this country and don't do anything stupid...
The best-selling book several years ago, "FREAKANOMICS" theorizes that U.S. crime rates dropped sharply in the 1990s once the "Roe v. Wade" generation came of age. In other words, the U.S. legalizing of abortion starting in 1973, prevented millions of births to at-risk, dysfunctional mothers whose babies would have been more likely to grow up criminal, had they been born.
Slowlane, I was just thinking to post the same thing, but I was going to add that it is strange however, abortion were always legal in NY State, while NYCs murder rate decline outpaced overall United States respective decline.
Perhaps the mayor and police commissioner are fudging the numbers so that they look good. Not that hard to label a homicide as a manslaughter, an accident, or a suicide.
It wouldn't be the FIRST time somebody used fraudulent data to delude.
Does anyone believe prices are NOT inflating?
Does anyone believe the reported Unemployment statistics?
So then why believe the reported NYC murder rate?
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