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Thirdly, there's also the effect of the newer policing techniques, like the 'broken windows' approach. It's likely some mix of all three.

• gnosis 13y ago
  "there's also the effect of the newer policing techniques" Or the non-effect of them. Crime rates have dropped drastically across the board, across the country, in many places that didn't make their policing policies more fascist as NYC's government chose to. From the MJ article: Second, and far more puzzling, it's not just New York that has seen a big drop in crime. In city after city, violent crime peaked in the early '90s and then began a steady and spectacular decline. Washington, DC, didn't have either Giuliani or Bratton, but its violent crime rate has dropped 58 percent since its peak. Dallas' has fallen 70 percent. Newark: 74 percent. Los Angeles: 78 percent. There must be more going on here than just a change in policing tactics in one city.
  • maxerickson 13y ago
    Oh, to have a statistics oracle. I wonder how much of it is associated with anti poverty programs.
  • YuriNiyazov 13y ago
    LA had Bratton.
  • vacri 13y ago
    It's really not that puzzling. Incarceration rates have skyrocketed in tandem with the drop in crime. What's puzzling is the number of analysts who keep on missing this most obvious piece of the pie.