On Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:23:49 -0500, J Herring
wrote:

"The drop in deaths from firearms and in slayings overall ? over the past two decades, homicide
declined by 80 percent in the District and overall crime fell by 75 percent in New York City ? has
come even as the economy has tanked, the number of guns owned by Americans has soared and the
number of young people in the prime crime demographic has peaked."

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There's no secret about what caused most of the drop in New York City.
Starting in 1994 with the election of Mayor Rudy Giuliani, NYC adopted
a tough minded policing strategy where laws already on the books were
vigorously enforced, and new management strategies were employed to
ensure that the police were deployed when and where they were most
needed. It sounds simple and obvious but for years NYPD officers had
looked the other way while petty crime was running rampant. Mayor
Giuliani correctly observed that for the most part, petty crimes and
serious crimes were being committed by the same people.