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New lows for murders and the crime rate in New York City

By Douglas A. Berman

Police and prosecutors and lots of others must be doing something right when it comes to criminal justice policy in the Big Apple because, as detailed in this AP report, new figures released today "show overall crime in the nation's largest city is down 11 percent from last year and 35 percent since 2001."  This New York Times piece, headlined "New York on Track for Fewest Murders on Record," discusses in more detail the significant new drop in murder rates in NYC: The storyline of murder in New York is one that has been undergoing constant revision since the Police Department began tracking homicides in 1962. There have been rises ? the homicide rate peaked in 1990 at 2,245 ? and subsequent falls. But since such statistics have been compiled and examined, there has never been as few murders in New York as there have been this year...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 28, 2009 (boomark / email).