New York City Crime

New York City has become a much safer city. The city is filled with immigrants from a variety of countries. There is a spread of different languages, cultural food, entertainment, and neighborhoods. Walking through the streets in any of the five boroughs feel much safer than the 1990’s. The nineties had a lot of drugs, illegal weapons, prostitution on the streets. This made majority of people in the community afraid and an unsafe environment especially for children. In The City That Became Safe, Franklin Zimring analyzes that individual and aggregate crime rates can change without removing or incarcerating more offenders in New York City. From 1990-2009, New York City has seen a diminution in crime compared to other cities. Major changes in the police department led to decreasing crime rates. Some of these changes included the growth of police officers and police strategies. Zimring divides the book into three sections: Part one discusses the decline in crime from 1990-2009 and compares the current situations in New York City to other cities, Part two seeks for an explanation of the decline of crime in New York compared to other big cities after 1990, and lastly Part three discusses the implications of New York’s experience on the nature of crime
Their findings included the declining rates of crime through New York compared to other cities in America. These crimes that had a major decline from 1990-2009 were aggravated assault, assault, auto theft, burglary, homicide, larceny, rape, robbery and theft. New York crime rates became the longest big city decline which had been documented. When a crime is reported, arrest and crimes are divided into two categories: index and non-index. Not every crime in the index is serious. A complication is that index crimes varied in the types of harm, motive, settings and the victim, but yet all crimes in New York dropped at the same