New York became a safer city even while closing prisons, study says
Monday, October 31, 2016 - 07:01
in Psychology & Sociology
Overflowing prison populations and high rates of violent crime once made New York City a metaphor for the urban decay confronting America's cities. But over the last two decades crime in the nation's largest city has declined steeply, with murders plummeting from 2,200 in 1990 to 350 in 2015.