Posted on 12/28/2012 1:20:22 PM PST by SeekAndFind
NEW YORK — The number of murders in New York City is expected to hit a record low this year, and shootings are at their lowest point in at least 18 years, officials said Friday.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly credited police efforts, including the controversial tactic known as stop and frisk, and Bloomberg said the statistics showed "that the safest big city in America is safer."
So far, there have been 414 homicides citywide this year, 19 percent less than last year and the fewest since reliable record-keeping for killings began in 1963. The previous low was 471, in 2009.
There have been 1,353 shootings this year, a statistic with comparable records going back to 1994. The previous low was 1,420 in 2009, and the number has dropped by more than 8 percent since last year.
Violent crime hit high points in New York in the 1990s, with a record 2,245 murders in 1990.
While there have been ups and downs since, including a double-digit increase in murders in 2010, the overall drop in crime and violence has helped reshape the city's image. Bloomberg often calls New York the safest big city in America, a description based on FBI statistics for seven major crimes. New York has the lowest rate per 100,000 residents among the 25 most populous U.S. cities.
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Just don’t stand near the tracks on subway platforms and don’t get caught with a soft drink container larger than 16 ounces. Yeah, NY is a real safe city.
Except they haven't been reliable since Bloomberg took office.
Yeah, its too easy to manipulate the numbers.
Today I read that the Detroit homicide rate is at a 20 year high but noticed they classified Justifiable Homicide with murder.
It's pretty easy to futz with crime statistics, but really hard to do with murders specifically.
The decrease in crime in NYC is primarily the work of Rudy Giuliani, who really turned things around.
But Bloomberg deserves some credit. In many regards, he is a jerk. But he has refrained from reversing any of Giuliani’s policies to keep crime under control. He doesn’t emphasize it, but at least he has refrained from undoing it, as I expected when he first came into office.
Sometimes not doing anything is the right thing to do.
Why would anyone be proud of 414 killed in NYC. That numbers could be lower with concealed Carry.
I guess they’re not counting the people in NY City who were murdered by terrorists on 9/11/01.
Frankly, I think it's the soda ban. Thieves just don't have the energy they used to.
I bet you dollars to donuts that the ACCIDENTAL death rate skyrockets in 2013.
Concealed carry in NYC (and Chicago, DC, etc) would probably have a minimal impact, if any, on the murder rate - many murders in those cities (and gun murders in particular) are thug-on-thug/gang-related.
Concealed carry would, however, lower the rates of other crimes in these cities, perhaps significantly.
“Why would anyone be proud of 414 killed in NYC”
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I think that’s pretty good in a city with about 8 million people.
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Because the per capita murder rates are lower than in southern cities without much gun regulation. In truth, though, I think all cities could have NYC murder rates if we had NYC's population density (27.5K per sq mile). Of course, most southern cities have fewer cops per capita and per square mile, because they don't have the tax revenues that come from being the nation's historic capital of finance, fashion, journalism and all that jazz. If implemented in southern cities, NYC's gun laws would lead to a massive crime wave.
Figures lie...LIARS figure.
Actually, the claims are well-founded. Compared to Oakland, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, and Baltimore... New York is a very safe city day and night. NYC barely hits the top 40 in violent crime. I’ve been pleasantly surprised given expectations.
They could be, yes. New Yorkers - at least, your typical liberal, non-Freeper New Yorker - recoil from guns like a vampire from a crucifix.
Because they're one and the same. The Bloomberg policy (actually a continuation of the Giuliani policy) is for police to stop any suspicious-looking "yutes" on any pretext (spitting in the street, smoking on the subway, etc.) and then frisk them for guns. Anyone found with a gun is then locked up under the Sullivan law.
When you remove all liberties and freedoms, you can have a (relatively speaking) safe city.
Give me liberty any day of the week.
F Bloomturd.
What does soda consumption have to do with safety?
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