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Re:NYC Homicides Drop Sharply, Again by gnosis on Saturday June 29, 2013 @12:15PM (#5962840)
"there's also the effect of the newer policing techniques"

Or the non-effect of them.

Crime rates have dropped drastically across the board, across the country, in many places that didn't make their policing policies more fascist as NYC's government chose to.

From the MJ article:

  Second, and far more puzzling, it's not just New York that has
  seen a big drop in crime. In city after city, violent crime peaked
  in the early '90s and then began a steady and spectacular
  decline. Washington, DC, didn't have either Giuliani or Bratton, but
  its violent crime rate has dropped 58 percent since its
  peak. Dallas' has fallen 70 percent. Newark: 74 percent. Los
  Angeles: 78 percent.

  There must be more going on here than just a change in policing
  tactics in one city.
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Re:NYC Homicides Drop Sharply, Again by maxerickson on Saturday June 29, 2013 @02:03PM (#5963232)
Oh, to have a statistics oracle.

I wonder how much of it is associated with anti poverty programs.

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Re:NYC Homicides Drop Sharply, Again by YuriNiyazov on Saturday June 29, 2013 @02:39PM (#5963355)
LA had Bratton.
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Re:NYC Homicides Drop Sharply, Again by vacri on Saturday June 29, 2013 @10:57PM (#5964524)
It's really not that puzzling. Incarceration rates have skyrocketed in tandem with the drop in crime. What's puzzling is the number of analysts who keep on missing this most obvious piece of the pie.
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