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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by misja111 on Friday June 26, 2020 @04:34PM (#23656693)
From the article that OP linked to:

"Since Compstat was introduced, crime rates in New York City have dropped dramatically. From 1993 to 1995, the total crime rate declined 27.44 percent across the city."

National crime rates dropped as well in that period but nowhere near 27%.

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Re:Santa Cruz, California bans predictive policing in U.S. f... by dv_dt on Friday June 26, 2020 @05:26PM (#23657242)
Seems like national stats maybe lagged NYC a little, but from a slightly different range of 1994-2000 on this chart the drop was (eyballing) 35% for homicides.

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2020/police-budget-spe...

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