New York, NY - Murder Rate Is Up
New York, NY - The murder rate in New York is up nine percent from last year.
Police say 239 people have been killed so far this year, up from 219 last year. But major crime is down five percent across the five boroughs.
Despite the increase, things are a lot better in New York than they were in the 1980s and early '90s. The city had more than twenty-two-hundred homicides in 1990 -- making it the country's undisputed homicide capital. But since then, the homicide rate has steadily declined.
Police say 239 people have been killed so far this year, up from 219 last year. But major crime is down five percent across the five boroughs.
Despite the increase, things are a lot better in New York than they were in the 1980s and early '90s. The city had more than twenty-two-hundred homicides in 1990 -- making it the country's undisputed homicide capital. But since then, the homicide rate has steadily declined.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 6/25/2006 03:51:00 PM
1 Comments:
At 6:29 PM,
Anonymous said…
Only because the figures that the NYPD uses are false. If they can't get rid of crimes in the present year, they go back and add crimes to "UP" the past years, making the present look good in comparison,no matter how unsafe we really are.
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