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Summary Of How New York Won The War On Crime By Steve Chapman

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Crime itself is an innate part of society, some may view it as a necessary component in one's society. New York city has had a history of high crime rates at one time. In the article, “How New York won the War on Crime” by Steve Chapman, the author discuss how New York City during the 1960s to the 1980s was viewed as “chaotic”, and mentioned that in 1984 there were at least “5 murders a day”. However, New York City now is not the same one it was during that time. The NYPD website provides a graph describing the crime rates and population growth in New York City between 1990s to to 2014. Through this graph we see a substantial difference in the amount of crime from 1990, which was 527,257 in contrast to 2014, which was 106,722. We can also

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