Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly announced today that overall crime is down 11 percent in the city this year, and the murder rate at its lowest levels since the early 1960s.
Since the September 11th terrorist attacks, crime has fallen 35 percent, even though the force is down thousands of officers.
It is the 19th-straight year of a declining crime rate. The police commissioner credits “persistence and professionalism” for the decline.
There have been 461 murders this year, compared to 516 for the same period last year.
(Source: NY1)
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Police are terrible at catching the people responsible for all the home break-ins. Even if you give them a photo of the guy.
The Bloomberg and Kelly administration, have a simple formula for bringing certain areas of crime down. Just label each crime something else. For example a mugging can be labeled an assault while it should really be a robbery. Police precincts have been pressured to under report, and to not even report at all incidents. How is it, that crime is up in Williamsburg, Green Point, and Crown Heights, but crime has gone down?? This is just another Bloomberg P.R. stunt.
I am with u Commish! Mysteriously all the car break ins reports have gone missing in the 71!
Why does NYPD love springtime? It’s easier for them to pull to corpses out of the lake in Central Park.
I have said before, I thought they were fudging the numbers and I must have been right!
I checked the official statistics for London, UK, a city with about 10% less population than NYC. For Jan-Nov 2009, there have been 118 homicides. NYC is the safest large city in America but it is far more dangerous than cities in Canada or Europe. Unfortunately, unless we can stop the illegal gun trafficking, we may not be able to do a lot more to reduce the carnage.