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New York City records fewest murders, lowest crime rate in decades
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of ABC News
Posted: January 15th, 2018
http://abcnews.go.com/US/york-city-records-fewest-murders-lo...
New York City ended the year with the fewest murders and the lowest crime figures in decades, the mayor and the NYPD said Friday. There were 290 murders in the nation's largest city in 2017, compared to 335 killings the previous year, said Mayor Bill de Blasio in a news conference. No one believed it was possible to get under 300 murders, de Blasio said. The murder rate is a far cry from 1990, when 2,245 people were killed in the city. The numbers of other crimes - shootings, robberies, burglaries and grand larcenies auto - also dropped, officials said. To see crime levels as low as we have today, youd have to go back to 1951, when the Dodgers played in Brooklyn and a slice was 15 cents, de Blasio added. Overall, 2017 was the fourth straight year of declines in crime in New York City. According to NYPD records there were 96,517 crimes reported last year, compared with 102,052 in 2016, a drop of 5.4 percent.
Note: Major media consistently under-reports the remarkable drop in crime in the US. In 1990, there were nearly twice as many reported violent crimes as there were in 2016.
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