“After two consecutive years
of plunging citywide crime rates, fresh New York City police statistics show
that murder, burglary, robbery and other serious crimes are dropping sharply
again this year across the city and once again at an accelerating pace.” In
1996 the crime rate in New York City had been falling tremendously. In this
article by Clifford Krauss the author stated that If current trends hold, the
city will experience its lowest number of murders since 1968, when there were
986 homicides. So in 1996 as you can see New york was on the right path not
many big cities in that time frame crime rates were decreasing much if at all.
The reasoning we are giving behind this drastic drop in 1996 was for a number
of reasons. Such as new crime tactics and focus on trying to catch the hard
core repeat offenders and put them behind bars. However if you look at the
crime rate for 2012 for New York City you will see that any thoughts and ideas
about the crime rate to keep going down were thrown out of the window. “Major crimes are up 4.2 percent so far in 2012, the New York Post
reports, marking the first time in eighteen years that all eight
NYPD "patrol boroughs" have seen an increase. That includes grand
larceny, sex crimes, and shootings, which have all jumped since the same period
in 2011, although murders are down 15.6 percent.” How very different these both of theses
articles start off from 1996 to 2012 what is the biggest difference why did the
crime rate rise again? There could be many reasons for this one is the
population growth in New York more people more crimes, other’s would say that
the documentation of crimes have diminished. Meaning that there may not even
actually be more crimes being committed now then back then but now they are
just documented better.
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