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"The Real Murder Mystery? It?s the Low Crime Rate"

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

The Real Murder Mystery? It?s the Low Crime Rate By SHAILA DEWAN Published: August 1, 2009 NY Times Week in Review MAYBE it is time to call in one of those clairvoyants who help detectives solve the case. Because no one else can explain what criminals have been doing in the first half of 2009. Not that the news is bad ? from New York to Los Angeles to Madison, Wis., major crimes, violent or not, are down between 7 percent and 22 percent over the same period last year. In Chicago, the number of homicides dropped 12 percent. In Charlotte, N.C., hard hit by the banking crisis, that total fell an astounding 38 percent. It is too soon to conclude that crime will decline throughout the recession, and the new numbers, which come from standardized reports that police departments send to the F...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 02, 2009 (boomark / email).