Aug 18, 2013 ... New York is the safest big city in the nation, and our crime reductions have been  steeper than any other big city's. For instance, if New York City had the murder  rate of Washington, D.C., 761 more New Yorkers would have been killed last  year. If our murder rate had mirrored the District's over the course of ...
Sep 18, 2015 ... The numbers tell a tragic, nagging story for Chicago: Violence here far outpaces  the nation's two larger cities, and has for more than a decade. Tribune reporters  recently spent time in both New York and Los Angeles to try to understand what  led to their steep reduction in violent crime and how those efforts ...
prisons peaked at 47,315, a number which fell by more than half to 22,580 by  May 2016. Few could have imagined that in 2015, the City would experience 350  murders with steep declines in other crime categories as well.1 Writing in 2011,  University of California. Law Professor Franklin Zimring dubbed New York City's.
reducing crime. Our criminal justice reforms have resulted in a big city that is one  of the safest in the nation and has the lowest rate of incarceration. In order to truly  end the harms of mass incarceration, we cannot stop now. This is why we have  made it the official policy of the City of New York to close the jails on Rikers Island  ...
Apr 15, 2016 ... In the early 1990s, U.S. crime rates had been on a steep upward climb since the  Lyndon B. Johnson presidency. The crack-cocaine epidemic in the mid-1980s  added fuel to the fire, and handgun-related homicides more than doubled  between 1985 and 1990. That year, murders peaked in New York City ...
New York is the safest big city in the nation, and our crime reductions have been steeper than any other big city’s.