I want to share one of the statistical observations I wish more people would talk about. This is about crime rates. This is about murders.
Over the past four decades the number of murders in NYC has fallen even as the population has increased a little. There were 2,245 murders in 1990. Last year the number was 309
But what has not changed? The likelihood that any murder will ever be caught.
The NYPD is less forthright about "clearance rates" but they seem to hover around 70 to 80 percent.
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