TW: Crime stats came back well in 2009 continuing an improving trend. Folks like to attribute the improvement to their favorite reasons (more prisons etc.) but I recall an expert claiming crime stats correlate tightly with the relative number of 18 year old males entering the population. Regardless the numbers are better despite the Great Recession.
"ONE of the happy trends of 2009 has been that crime is down in major American cities, even the ones that have had a rough year in other respects. Today the New York Times reports that New York City is on track to have its smallest number of murders since 1962:
...The trend can be understood as crime being on a downward trajectory for years, for a variety of reasons—the end of the crack epidemic, better gun control, new policing strategies, and so on—rather than something special about 2009..." http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2009/12/crime_in_decline
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