New York, "only" 492 murders record year: 80% from 1990 - Foreign - Repubblica.it
NEW YORK - For the city of New York in 2007 was a record year in terms of murders, "only" 492 "at all last night," as pointed out by the New York Times. It 's the first time since 1963 that there are fewer than 500 U.S. cities in murders over the twelve months. A fact that reflects an important change in the metropolis. Only 20 years ago, the city had over 2,000 murders a year, with a peak of 2,245 in 1990: 80% more compared to 2007 figures. Some consider Rudolph Giuliani, mayor for much of the nineties and now a candidate for the Republican nomination for president, the author only in reducing the rate of violence in the city. Nationally in 1993, when Giuliani was elected, marking the culmination of many crimes and the implications for 2000, 2001, last years of the Giuliani and his "zero tolerance", they recorded a record low. Some scholars believe that the increase in recorded murders in the eighties was in part due to armed youths involved in the crack market. "In 1993 - according to Alfred Blumstein, a criminologist at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh - began to spread rumors about the dangers of crack and demand collapsed. There is an ongoing decline in arrests for illegal possession of weapons. In part it was due to 'enormous economic development of the nineties, who offered some of those young lawful occupations, and partly to the extraordinary number of prisoners. "
The Seventies and eighties have seen increasing political repression. The number of Americans behind bars is passt from about 600 000 of the early seventies to 2.2 million today. George Kelling, a criminologist at Rutgers University, considered one of the fathers of New York's crime strategies, said that the merit of the largest drop in crime was recorded in New York than in most other cities continues to be attributable to actual strategies: "A good management of public order. " Not only is "zero tolerance". They were put into practice theories, such as the so-called philosophy of "broken windows". Assuming that broken glass, dirty sidewalks, graffiti, alcohol consumption in public were a sign of encouragement for vandalism and other forms of serious crime, started a campaign to fight against large-scale urban decay. The Police Department of New York City also uses computers to analyze crime trends in order to concentrate resources in areas of high incidence of crime. And things changed. (December 31, 2007)
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