The FBI reports for 2008 shows that the numbers of violent crimes dropped 11.6% in the city of Detroit. From 2000 to 2004 Detroit’s rate has dropped 23% drastically. In 2007, the city had the sixth highest rate of violent crime among the twenty-five largest U.S. cities. FBI reports In 2010, city of Detroit neighborhoods were not listed as among those in major cities with the 25 highest crime rates in the U.S. as reported by neighborhoods. Detroit recorded 308 criminal homicides in 2010, a 15.4% drop from the previous year’s count of 364.
A startling 293 murders were reported in 2010 in Los Angeles and 32 murders for Long Beach and yet it is even more shocking to know there are far more forcible rapes that occur in both of these areas. I would think that population size, diversity and other environmental factors have something to do with the differences in these numbers. The murder rate seems to have decreased while forcible rape increased in both cities, with an additional 630 incidents in Los Angeles and an additional 102 incidents in Long Beach. On the other hand, for the past several years, crime rates have dropped continually. The Los Angeles Police Department reported in 2008 that
In Abilene, TX the crime rate per 100,000 people was 91.5 in 2009. The drop is not as significant as it was in Albany, but you could say crime was on the decline in the metropolitan area of Abilene, TX and Albany, GA. The area of Abilene, TX has had a steady decline in the crime of robbery since 2007 according to the UCR. The area of Albany, GA has gone up and down for the crime of robbery since 2007. The reason for the difference in numbers could be a number of factors.
The city of Baltimore has had 3,336 robberies in 2010 . Baltimore has a total area of 5,833 who actually will report a robbery. While the crime rate dropping is a positive thing, the actual numbers of people who report the crimes have decreased that means that this decrease will allows more crimes to be committed without anyone being responsible for the acts (U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau
New York has been known for its crime rate, with a population of 17,999,657 and 99.8% of police departments reporting, there were 761 murders in 2009. The biggest difference between the crime rates in the two cities in the size of population. Even though New York has more murders, the numbers have steadily been reduced thanks to zero tolerance policy in New York. Between 1990 and 1997, the number of murders in New York has dropped from 2,262 to 767 which is 66% drop in the murder rate. In 1997 there were actually the fewest murder numbers in New York since 1967.
The per capita income was less than half that of Los Angeles as a whole, and poverty and unemployment rates were more than twice as high. Additionally, drugs, crime, and gang violence had all become visible problems in South Central Los Angeles. Although the acquittal of the four officers was the immediate precipitant of the 1992 riots, there were many factors that had a part in the violence. First of all, the living conditions of poor, urban blacks had not improved in the past 10 years, racial tensions were high due to personal prejudices and institutional racism, and an increased foreign immigration led to inter-ethnic hostility. They were triggered by micro issues from conflict between members of minority community and the justice system, the violence was initiated by members of the minority community, and the looting and burning of businesses were the major forms of property crimes.
However, by the 1990s the professional classes had listened to the health advice and the number of smokers in that social class had fallen by 75%. In contrast, the number of smokers in social class V (class of unskilled occupations) had dropped by only 30%. This clearly indicates that smoking is an issue liked to social class and poverty. Other figures show that in 2008, 48% of adults in deprived areas of Scotland were smokers, a higher proportion than in deprived areas of England and Wales where the figure was only 41%. This shows how geographical location which is linked into social class can affect weather you are more likely to smoke or not.
(Fact Check.org, 2012) Gun robbery in 2011 was 122,300 the lowest rate since 2004. (Fact Check.org, 2012) And all of this was happening while gun ownership was at 88.8 per
“Such policies might, in fact, upset a national balance that correlates with the unprecedented drop in crime and the rise in public safety over the past two decades” (Domenech). Mass murders track closely with the homicide rate, but over the last decade the rates have dropped to lower than they have been since the 1960’s. Mass murder attracts a lot of attention from the media and although we may think that crime is rising, according to Domenech, we are living at a time when violent crime is at a historic low. Grant Duwe, a PH. D researcher in Minnesota, blames media’s irresponsibility for creating a false impression of rising mass murder because claims makers have relied almost exclusively on national news coverage as a source of data.
Guiliani’s Miracle had been infamously known for having the most prevalent decline in crime rates in the history of the United States of America. At the time, New York City was one of the economically unstable cities in the US and had a drastic 21.5% drop in crime the only city to have such a large) strategy, respectively, to redefine deviance. Moreover, Guiliani’s Miracle may have rooted from ethnocentrism in the general population of New York City. New York City’s police commissioner, William Bratton, was hired in 1994 following Guiliani’s victory in the mayoral election. A large number of questions were left unanswered when Guiliani was elected mayor and Young proposed that Commissioner Bratton was hired as the answer for the plunging