Mayor's Office: City Has Gone Full Week Without A Murder

[hrmjustin]

Ny1News

Mayor Michael Bloomberg's office says the city has gone a full week without a murder for the second time this year.

According to the mayor's office, there hasn't been a murder since October 6.

There have been 256 murders so far this year, compared to 346 at this time last year, a 26 percent drop.

The last week without a murder was back in January, amid bitterly cold temperatures.

Read more at http://www.ny1.com/content/news/criminal_justice/190466/mayor-s-office--city-has-gone-full-week-without-a-murder

[NYC_SKP]

1. Cool! In 1990, there were 2,245 murders in New York City!

Sounds like a lot, doesn't it?

[hrmjustin]

2. I remember it. It was very bad in NY.

[Smarmie Doofus]

3. Any idea how that compares w. other large cities? n/t

[hrmjustin]

4. No I don't my friend.

But I am sure Bloomberg will take credit.

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. I've seen his people do veeerrrrrrry strange things w. stats.

In the school system, specifically. Apparent miracles where there is only flim-flam. It's hard to believe police stats would be immune to the same sort of manipulation.

I remember when someone... I don't even think it was a reporter; just a civilian.... dug not very deep after 9-11 and discovered that the declining homicide rates at the end of the Giuliani reign were maintained by classifying the 2000 + WTC homicide victims as... well I forget what; but as something OTHER than homicide victims.

[hrmjustin]

6. That was my reaction as well. I think he has lied about a lot of stats and I do not trust him.

[StrayKat]

7. I don't think it's all due lying and manipulation.

Reports from various sources are that crime has gone down in the US and worldwide in large cities.

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21582041-rich-world-seeing-less-and-less-crime-even-face-high-unemployment-and-economic

In America the fall began around 1991; in Britain it began around 1995, though the murder rate followed only in the mid-2000s. In France, property crime rose until 2001—but it has fallen by a third since. Some crimes are all but disappearing. In 1997, some 400,000 cars were reported stolen in England and Wales: in 2012, just 86,000....[]...he number of violent crimes has fallen by 32% since 1990 across America as a whole; in the biggest cities, it has fallen by 64%.

[hrmjustin]

8. Yes it is not all manipulation but Bloomberg has been suspected of cooking the books on several

things. But yes crime is way down in the city since I was a kid in the 80's and 90's.