New York sees record drop in crime
Becoming a NYC copper is becoming
an honorable profession - once again.
New York City is on course to mark the fewest homicides since records have been kept, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced Wednesday.
The city is expected to fall below 500 murders in 2007, the lowest level for any year since 1963, when comparable information on homicides was first collected, Bloomberg said at a news conference.
“At the end of 2002, for the first time in four decades, murders in New York City fell below 600, and we were able to hold them below 600 for the next four years,” Bloomberg said. “Today, with just five days of the year remaining, it appears that we have another historic achievement within our reach.”
Bloomberg said decreases in major felony crimes were recorded across every crime category and in all five boroughs in 2007, marking the seventeenth straight year in which crime has gone down…
Officials name “Operation Impact” as the prime reason for the decline in crime. The NYPD effort focuses on problem people and places, Kelly said. It places significant numbers of uniformed officers in small areas of precincts, where crime rates are relatively high.
No doubt there will be an omnibus report. Success isn’t exactly overwhelming American policing.
Looks like the prime factor is actually having enough coppers to deal with crime - where crime is epidemic.
Posted: Fri - December 28, 2007 at 07:20 AM