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Feb 6, 2024 · NYPD Announces January 2024 Citywide Crime Statistics. February 6, 2024. Ongoing reductions achieved in shootings, homicides, vehicle thefts, other major crimes. 2024, compared to the first month of last year, and included substantial drops in murder, rape, burglary, and felony assault.
Jan 3, 2024 · For the first six months of 2022, New York City saw 17,000 more victims of major crime. For the first six months of this year, we also saw a small increase of about 800 victims. But for the last six months of this year, we have over 1,200 less victims of major crime. The mayor talked about 416 less victims of shooting violence in New York City.
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May 7, 2024 · Overall index crime across New York City dropped another 4.9 percent in the month of April compared to the same month last year, as major crimes in the nation’s largest subway system plummeted another 23 percent, continuing a downward trend that saw previous transit system decreases of 15.4 percent in February and 23.5 percent in March.
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Let me assume that rehabilitation is one hundred percent success-ful. This "total rehabilitation" exceeds the wildest dreams of dedicated proponents, but the assumption will help us focus on the crime rate. Total rehabilitation means that every convict who serves any sentence-be it thirty days, or thirty years, in prison or on probation-becomes a l...
[Vol. 73 whereas in the past they committed a far greater number of dental acts before rehabilitation. There would be a temporary decline of dental acts. But, if the demand for dentistry is unchanged, the reduced supply of dentists would augment the net advantage for people willing to com-mit dentistry. The higher net advantage very soon would attr...
car thieves, are readily replaced if the demand for their services does not decrease. Increased frequency of rehabilitation merely creates an oppor-tunity for others to provide these services at a sufficient net advantage to attract them. An increased rate of rehabilitation simply leads to a higher rate of first offenses by new entrants. As the net...
limited, rehabilitation could reduce the number of actual offenders. Probably there are more potential child molesters than actual ones. Still, the number of potential molesters is likely to be quite limited, if, as seems likely, child molesters have an idiosyncratic personality type which is not all that frequent.2 2 Hence, the greater the number ...
[Vol. 73 nomic reform and, specifically, of greater distributive equality, it could not replace deterrent threats and punishments as means of crime control. Thus, we are left in the main with manipulating the severity and frequency of punishment. Increases of either, in addition to direct ef-fects on the net advantage of crime, have important indir...
Does rehabilitation lose all value if it has no effect on the crime rate? Not if one is concerned with saving souls by influencing the moral fate of individual convicts. The moral value of rehabilitation then be-comes independent of any impact on the crime rate. Private secular as well as religious organizations are legitimately interested in the m...
if they did rehabilitate; hence they cannot be justified on any conse-quentialist social grounds. Nor do they contribute to justice. Justice is done according to what the offense deserves, whereas parole and work-release depend on a judgment of the offender's future behavior, or on an attempt to influence it. Whatever its merits, such an attempt is...
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Jul 13, 2022 · Whether they’re education courses, meaningful work opportunities or specific types of therapy, evidence suggests that rehabilitative programs can significantly reduce criminals’ risk of committing future crimes.
Jul 29, 2022 · In 2021 there were 5.7 homicides per 100,000 people in New York City, compared to a rate of 35 in Philadelphia and 55 in New Orleans. Law enforcement officers at the scene of an April shooting at ...
Many of these programs aim to address vulnerable populations’ basic needs such as education, housing, healthcare, and employment. It is possible that such interventions may be just as effective, if not more, at lowering long-term crime rates than traditional approaches to public safety.
