Hi no caste,
The headline is a little misleading, however it's good that the people think positively.
The headline should have read, "Major Cities' Reported Crime Rates Mystifying".
Just this extra word could change the whole meaning of the article. Not wanting to put doom and gloom into the equation, it could mean that the public don't have confidence any more in the police and so, if they are attacked, they just dust themselves down and go home.
We need to qualify what is deemed to be 'violent' crime. Has the definition been changed recently? We know that politicians will change the rules if it improves the figures.
Have the police been ordered to take a softly softly approach to things or even been told to turn a blind eye?
Is the figure representing tried and proven cases? Has the justice system become slower?
Paradoxically the crime rate in the Northeast of Brazil shot through the roof, even though the economy is booming. More people have left the poverty line with commercial growth rising 57% over seven years. Assasinations in Salvador (Bahia) rose 79% in three years and 62% in Maceió (Alagoas).
Could there be a relation between more money floating around and crime? Could it be that because there is more money around the law enforcment officers are better equiped and more able to detect crime? Could it be a political game where the government is trying to control the population with false information?
So many questions....
We need to ask questions and not accept on face value what we see on the news.
Best regards,
Steve
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Originally Posted by no caste
 
Major Cities' Plummeting Crime Rates Mystifying
By Allison Klein Washington Post Staff Writer - Monday, July 20, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...071902154.html
Violent crime has plummeted in the Washington area and in major cities across the country, a trend criminologists describe as baffling and unexpected.
The District, New York and Los Angeles are on track for fewer killings this year than in any other year in at least four decades. Boston, San Francisco, Minneapolis and other cities are also seeing notable reductions in homicides.
"Experts did not see this coming at all," said Andrew Karmen, a criminologist and professor of sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. .. |