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  1. Jul 17, 2009 · How New York Became Safe: The Full Story. A citywide effort, involving many agencies and institutions, helped restore order. / From the Magazine / States and Cities, Public Safety. Special Issue 2009 / Share. J ust 20 years ago, New York City was racked with crime: murders, burglaries, drug deals, car thefts, thefts from cars.

  2. Sep 1, 2007 · The Remarkable Drop in Crime in New York City, by Patrick A. Langan and Matthew R. Durose, Bureau of Justice Statistics, U. S. Department of Justice, October 21, 2004

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  4. Over the 1990s, misdemeanor arrests increased 70 percent in New York City. When arrests for misdemeanors had risen by 10 percent, indicating increased use of the "broken windows" method, robberies dropped 2.5 to 3.2 percent, and motor vehicle theft declined by 1.6 to 2.1 percent. But this decline was not the result of more of those involved in ...

  5. Apr 14, 2023 · The crime increases in New York City in 2022 were roughly in line with national crime trends in big cities nationwide. ... The exception, as we said, was for murder, which saw a 15% drop, from 92 ...

  6. Aug 7, 2014 · 1963: there are 548 murders in New York City. 1964: New York City hosts the World’s Fair, dedicated to “Man’s Achievement on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe.” 1967: 746 murders.

  7. Mar 6, 2020 · Beginning in 1991, New York experienced the broadest and deepest decline in violent crime of any major American city. By 2013, Bloomberg's last year as mayor, the murder rate had dropped to 3.3 ...

  8. Crime in New York City was high in the 1980s during the Mayor Edward I. Koch years, as the crack epidemic hit New York City, and peaked in 1990, the first year of Mayor David Dinkins's administration (1990–1993), but then began to decline; the number of murders fell from the 1990 peak to a level close to Koch's worst year of 1989 by Dinkins's ...

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