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| Some good news - (less) Crime in NY |
| 2004-01-09 |
| I get this mailed to me as a subscriber so sorry no direct link, but I thought it was an interesting insight on America’s capacity to solve its own problems. After two years of struggling in the polls, Michael Bloomberg, New York’s mayor, seemed nearly beatific when he announced the city’s latest good news: New York has the lowest overall crime rate among cities in the United States with more than 1m people. This is according to statistics compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the first half of the year. The city could end the year with fewer than 600 murders for the second time in four decades, the mayor announced on December 15th. America now has the lowest crime rates of a large developed country after Japan. In contrast crime rates have got much worse in most of Europe. And that darling of Left South Africa is now the crime capital of the world and looks like heading for a failed-state status. Here is a link I predict that an unanticipated outcome of the WOT is a further sharp reduction in crimes in the USA. Every cloud has its silver lining. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #2 So does anybody think our reduced crime rates will cause the other "civilized" nation to admit that maybe (1) decent citizens owning guns and (2) keeping the criminals in jail might reduce their own crime rates? Anybody? *crickets chirping* |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-1-9 10:59:17 PM |
| #1 phil_b: I doubt that there will be a sharp reduction that is directly related to the WOT. Crime rates have been declining at a steady pace since smart people were allowed to implement their ideas in the '90s (at least). Certainly, the tougher restrictions on, for example, immigration in the context of WOT will smoke out criminals that are not terrorists, but that will be marginal to the overall trend. |
| Posted by: Carl in NH 2004-1-9 9:32:46 PM |