Realistically, the fact that incarceration has expanded each and every year from 1973 through the present has not led to a steady downward crime trend, as reported by Rick Ruddell in America Behind Bars: Trends in Imprisonment, 1950 to 2000.
THE steady drop in crime here has city officials hoping to lure new home and business owners.
His opponents point to the steady fall in crime since Michael Howard began locking more people up as home secretary in the mid-1990s.
BEHIND THE NEWS Harlem benefited greatly during the economic boom and the steady decline in crime in New York since the 1990s.
In the last five years, just about all of them have thrown their hats and helmets in the air to celebrate a steady fall in crime.
City Council members, who by law are not allowed to interfere in personnel matters, appear to support Chief Meehan unanimously because he has overseen a steady drop in crime and overtime expenses during his two-year tenure.
You cannot have a steady diet of crime when you are in airports because after a while you get a creepy feeling that you are surrounded by murderers and remittance men, if not actually sitting next to one.
Despite a steady drop in crime in the last 10 years Proposition 21, the latest in a long line of voter-approved tough-on-crime measures in California, passed by 62percenttoto 38percentt.
New York has seen a steady drop in crime over the last 16 years, through Wall Street booms and dot-com busts, amid the devastation of the Sept. 11 attack and the revitalization that followed.
He is widely credited with cleaning up Passaic's trash-strewn streets and graffiti-stained buildings, and he has added 50 police officers to the 200-member force, a move that increased the city's budget but also may have contributed to a steady drop in crime.
