![]() ![]() What accounts for the drop in crime rates? William J. Burglaries have fallen from more than 200,000 in the early '80s to under 75,000 in '95. Car thefts have fallen to 71,000, down from 150,000 as recently as 6 years ago. earlier this month, New York has a citywide violent-crime rate that now ranks it 136th among major American cities, on a par with Boise, Idaho. ![]() According to the preliminary crime statistics released by the F.B.I. Once the symbol of urban violence, NYC is in the midst unprecedented transformation. There is probably no other place in the country where violent crime has declines so far, so fast. In 1993 there were 126 homicides in the Seven-Five, as the police call it. East New York is not a place of office buildings or parks and banks, just graffiti-covered bodegas and hair salons and auto shops. Tells about East New York, home of the 75th Precinct, a 5.6 square mile tract where some of the poorest people in the city live. Writer describes the part of New York City that the Police Department refers to as Brooklyn North, where neighborhoods slowly start to empty out. Today, bringing epidemiological techniques to bear on violence is one of the hottest ideas in criminal research. OF DISPUTATION about the application of what epidemiologists call the "tipping point"-the point at which an ordinary and stable phenomenon-a low-level flu outbreak, for example, can turn into a public-health crisis. ![]()
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