http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/113214/city-marks-another-year-of-low-crime-rates-fire-deaths.html Fri, 24 Jul 2015 17:26:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.9 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/113214/city-marks-another-year-of-low-crime-rates-fire-deaths.html#comment-243678 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:29:09 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=113214#comment-243678 The stats are impressive and I have no doubt that the Mayor or NYPD wants to see a reduction in crime. On the flip side, if you were the victim of one of the reported or non reported crimes the lower stats are of little comfort.

]]> http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/113214/city-marks-another-year-of-low-crime-rates-fire-deaths.html#comment-243633 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 03:16:28 +0000 http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/?p=113214#comment-243633 Crime rates are going down everywhere in the US, regardless of level of police activity. This suggests that crime is not a function of unemployment or poverty, but perhaps of family structure (and unemployed parents watch kids more than employed ones?). Some have suggested that the increase in abortions which started a generation ago resulted in fewer juvenile and young adult offenders (and these being the typical ages of criminals). Rising prison populations seems to be a factor (while many harmless people are unnecessarily incarcerated, it does appear the are getting a higher percentage of the dangerous ones locked up).

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