New York City crime rate lowest in 40 years

[Chris]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - This year has been the safest in New York City in more than four decades, with the murder rate down to levels not seen since the early 1960s, police said on Monday.

As of Sunday, 461 murders had been committed, down from 516 in 2008 and the lowest number since comparable record-keeping began in 1963, the New York Police Department said.

Nationwide, statistics suggest the United States will have seen a drop in violent crime for a third year in a row. Last week, the FBI reported violent crime, including murder and robbery, dropped 4.4 percent in the first half of 2009.

The FBI also said New York was the safest U.S. big city in 2009.

Crime in New York has been falling for several years in a decline widely attributed to a "broken windows" strategy of no tolerance for even the smallest infraction and the system of identifying and addressing problem areas.

In announcing the 2009 statistics, Mayor Michael Bloomberg also gave credit to his efforts to clamp down on illegal guns.

New York City crime rates at record low: police | Reuters

 

[rightwinger]

Noticeable change in NYC. Times Square, Central Park even most of Harlem are safe areas to walk through.

Rudy G made much of the initial changes to make the city safer

 

[noose4]

It was better when it was dangerous.(and I think they are cooking the books regarding the crime rate)

 

[kyzr]

Just heard that the rate for policemen killed in the line of duty was also the lowest in 50-years. IMHO it must be the proactive way that the SWAT guys take care of the worst of the lot. Years ago we didn't have such superbly trained shock troops.

 

[uscitizen]

It has to be Bush's fault.

 

[xsited1]

New York City crime rate lowest in 40 years

If you stacked those murdered on top of each other, they would be as tall as two world trade centers.

 

[Zona]

Noticeable change in NYC. Times Square, Central Park even most of Harlem are safe areas to walk through.

Rudy G made much of the initial changes to make the city safer

Harlem went through the definition of gentrification.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

NYC needs a Red Light District

 

[Sinatra]

Rudy G. completely altered the course New York was on - prior to his terms as mayor the city was repeatedly on the brink of seeming chaos - and Times Square - fahget a bout it. Peep show central! Great for a college age kid with more money than sense, but not a family or legit business friendly environment.

Rudy G easily ranks among New York's greatest mayors...

 

[Avatar4321]

good for NYC. I hope Philly can do similiar things soon. Im not too optimistic though. One party rule doesnt lend well to problems getting fixed.

 

[Xenophon]

It was better when it was dangerous.(and I think they are cooking the books regarding the crime rate)

You know it, same as I do.

Every cop I know, and that is a lot of them, say they are dangerously understaffed and they don't even bother to respond to most calls anymore unless its extremly violent.

NY is not 'safer' its just not reported anymore.

 

[Luissa]

It was better when it was dangerous.(and I think they are cooking the books regarding the crime rate)

You know it, same as I do.

Every cop I know, and that is a lot of them, say they are dangerously understaffed and they don't even bother to respond to most calls anymore unless its extremly violent.

NY is not 'safer' its just not reported anymore.

They say the same thing here, and crime is terrible here right now. It is almost everyday that a pharmacy gets robbed.

 

[oreo]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - This year has been the safest in New York City in more than four decades, with the murder rate down to levels not seen since the early 1960s, police said on Monday.

As of Sunday, 461 murders had been committed, down from 516 in 2008 and the lowest number since comparable record-keeping began in 1963, the New York Police Department said.

Nationwide, statistics suggest the United States will have seen a drop in violent crime for a third year in a row. Last week, the FBI reported violent crime, including murder and robbery, dropped 4.4 percent in the first half of 2009.

The FBI also said New York was the safest U.S. big city in 2009.

Crime in New York has been falling for several years in a decline widely attributed to a "broken windows" strategy of no tolerance for even the smallest infraction and the system of identifying and addressing problem areas.

In announcing the 2009 statistics, Mayor Michael Bloomberg also gave credit to his efforts to clamp down on illegal guns.

New York City crime rates at record low: police | Reuters

Yeah 14%--umemployment spells that---

 

[garyd]

Uh mr. mayor NYC has been clamping down on guns for the last 50 odd years what on earth makes you thing your policies are any different than anyone elses?

 

[Xenophon]

They say the same thing here, and crime is terrible here right now. It is almost everyday that a pharmacy gets robbed.

Mayor Mike is king of bullshit, he loves to throw around stats about how great he does, but even after spending record amounts in the last election he nearly lost to a nobody who didn't campaign.

 

[rightwinger]

It was better when it was dangerous.(and I think they are cooking the books regarding the crime rate)

You know it, same as I do.

Every cop I know, and that is a lot of them, say they are dangerously understaffed and they don't even bother to respond to most calls anymore unless its extremly violent.

NY is not 'safer' its just not reported anymore.

People in New York have stopped reporting murders?

 

[2aguy]

And just in time.....a blast from the past....

Gun control doesn’t reduce crime, violence, say studies

The National Academy of Sciences issued a 328-page report based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, a survey of 80 different gun-control laws and some of its own independent study.

In short, the panel could find no link between restrictions on gun ownership and lower rates of crime, firearms violence or even accidents with guns.
Read more at Gun control doesn’t reduce crime, violence, say studies

 

[Old Rocks]

NYC needs a Red Light District

Why? You volunteering for duty there? LOL

 

[Old Rocks]

And just in time.....a blast from the past....

Gun control doesn’t reduce crime, violence, say studies

The National Academy of Sciences issued a 328-page report based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, a survey of 80 different gun-control laws and some of its own independent study.

In short, the panel could find no link between restrictions on gun ownership and lower rates of crime, firearms violence or even accidents with guns.
Read more at Gun control doesn’t reduce crime, violence, say studies

No link in those articles to the pnas article it claims exists.

But here is one that does exist, and a direct link to it;

Handgun waiting periods reduce gun deaths

Handgun waiting periods reduce gun deaths

1. Michael Lucaa,1,
2. Deepak Malhotraa, and
3. Christopher Poliquina

Author Affiliations

1. Edited by Philip J. Cook, Duke University, Durham, NC, and accepted by Editorial Board Member Kenneth W. Wachter September 21, 2017 (received for review December 3, 2016)
   

Significance
Waiting period laws that delay the purchase of firearms by a few days reduce gun homicides by roughly 17%. Our results imply that the 17 states (including the District of Columbia) with waiting periods avoid roughly 750 gun homicides per year as a result of this policy. Expanding the waiting period policy to all other US states would prevent an additional 910 gun homicides per year without imposing any restrictions on who can own a gun.

Abstract
Handgun waiting periods are laws that impose a delay between the initiation of a purchase and final acquisition of a firearm. We show that waiting periods, which create a “cooling off” period among buyers, significantly reduce the incidence of gun violence. We estimate the impact of waiting periods on gun deaths, exploiting all changes to state-level policies in the Unites States since 1970. We find that waiting periods reduce gun homicides by roughly 17%. We provide further support for the causal impact of waiting periods on homicides by exploiting a natural experiment resulting from a federal law in 1994 that imposed a temporary waiting period on a subset of states.

 

[Old Rocks]

Reducing gun violence in America

The rate of gun violence in the United States substantially exceeds that of most other developed nations (1). Within the United States, gun deaths—particularly homicides—contribute to disparities in life expectancy between whites and minority groups, particularly African-Americans (2). Scientific progress in understanding how to address this problem has been limited in part because of limited research funding, which itself is largely due to the politics around guns in America (3). Therefore, the new article in PNAS by Luca et al. (4) addresses a critical topic.

In their new paper, Luca et al. argue that the adoption of mandatory waiting periods for handgun purchases reduces gun homicides by about 17%. These estimated effects are enormous. Most remarkable of all is that the policy intervention that leads to these reductions in gun violence would seem to impose so few costs on society. In what follows, I first try to put the magnitude of Luca et al.’s estimates into context to help readers appreciate how large they actually are. Moreover, if the results are correct, they would imply that that almost all gun violence in America is committed by people with only transitory motivation. However, it is also possible that their estimates overstate somewhat the effects of waiting periods on gun violence. This is not intended as a criticism; the question they address is intrinsically difficult. Refining our understanding of this question is likely to require better data systems in the future.

Their analysis also raises a natural follow-up question: If these laws are so helpful, why do only 16 states have such policies currently in place? The answer seems due in part to what has been called the “collective action problem” (5) that leads a small but highly motivated minority of the population to dominate the legislative process. This theory predicts that.................................

Reducing gun violence in America

Thus far the pnas articles seem to support gun control.