And New York's incarceration rates have fallen rapidly even as robbery, burglary, auto theft, larceny, rape and assault rates have declined faster than elsewhere.
However, the assault rates, both inmate-on-inmate and inmate-on-staff, were generally down in 2007 from the previous years.
Adolescents comprise nearly a third of this number, further compromising their health and wellbeing in a region with some of the highest unplanned pregnancy and sexual assault rates.
Recent Bocsar statistics show a 59.2% decrease in assault rates in Kings Cross between 6pm and 1.30am and a 93.9% decrease between 3am and 6am.
I do think there's a serious problem with the violence we see in some pornography, and it has severe consequences for sexual-assault rates.
Headquarters should consider a universal policy to investigate, and even block, sending female volunteers to sites or countries with assault rates above a certain level.
"You've got to look at the whole picture, and the picture tells the very clear story that assault rates haven't just dropped since the suite of alcohol measures were introduced, they've plummeted".
(The Politifact story linked above also notes that in the Ohio/border comparison, Yuma is the second-worst city for aggravated assault rates, although that's looking at the entire population, not just undocumented immigrants).
The sooner we banish these myths then, the sooner we stop entertaining arguments that suggest victims bear equal or even partial responsibility for their assault or denials that assaults even happen, the sooner assault rates will go down, an outcome that is surely desirable for everyone.
There were significant racial differences in exposure to stress at the community level (eg, 63% of the black women lived in neighborhoods with aggravated assault rates that were above the citywide mean compared with 25% of the white women).
