During the civil rights movement there was much more homicide in the black community than there is now — black-on-black crime is shrinking.
An excerpt: A growing body of evidence suggests that a mix of developments — expanding economic and educational opportunities, rising border crime, and shrinking families — are suppressing illegal traffic as much as economic slowdowns or immigrant crackdowns in the United States.
A growing body of evidence suggests that a mix of developments — expanding economic and educational opportunities, rising border crime and shrinking families — are suppressing illegal traffic as much as economic slowdowns or immigrant crackdowns in the United States.
When the audio consultant retained by Gramophone analyzed Hatto's Godowsky CD, he found that it had been pieced together from recordings by Marc-André Hamelin, Carlo Grante, and Ian Hobson Barryy had covered up the crime by shrinking the timings of various tracks.
Globalisation, urban growth, deindustrialisation, heightened fear of urban crime, and shrinking states are behind their expansion in the global South.
An essay he wrote with George Kelling in 1982 in The Atlantic Monthly argued that cracking down on petty crimes like fare beating and writing graffiti would reduce serious crime and has been credited with revolutionizing police practices in New York and shrinking crime rates.
The implication is that if Mr. Suozzi allows the Nassau police force to shrink, crime in the county will rise.
Rising crime rates and shrinking federal aid didn't help; by the 1970's, many parks were ill tended, menacing and nearly deserted.
Historically low crime rates and shrinking state coffers have led to a nascent consensus among lawmakers and advocates across the ideological spectrum that our addiction to incarceration is not sustainable, effective or humane.
Oakland has been struggling with a rising crime rate and police force that shrank by a fourth because of budget cuts over the last five years.
