As of yesterday morning, with barely more than a week to go in 2004, there had been 549 slayings in the city, down from 579 in the same period last year and from 2,245 in all of 1990, at the height of the crack epidemic.
That should read "at the height of the David Dinkins administration."
7 posted on 12/23/2004 9:17:03 PM PST by LdSentinal