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New York and Crime by Agnes Celina
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New York and Crime |
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No city is free of crimes at all, no matter, how good the police force is, crime is always there. It can be either violent or non-violent crime. The rate of violent crimes in the city has decreased over the last fifteen years and there had been decrease in the number of murders that took place in the city. During the 1980s and early 1990s the crime rate was quite high due to crack epidemic. Moreover, there were various gangs present at that time, which were responsible in the high crime rate. However, after early 1990s the crime rate dropped significantly and never climbed that high. It is assumed that there was a decrease as the crack epidemic came to an end and as there were demographic changes. 19th century, was the time of organized crimes. The biggest gangs like forty thieves and the Roach Guard began in 1820s. However, to tell the people about these crimes and the corruption of old law enforcers the New York Herald was started by, James Gordon. The murder of Helen and Mary in 1836 and 1841 was given vast coverage by the newspaper, uncovering the corruption and the crime. Thus a new police force was started in 1844 to deal with the situation. Riots broke out in the city in 1863, 1870, and 1874, but they were all suppressed by the new police force. In the early 20th century, many mobsters were present in the city, however then in late 20th century an organization called mafia came in to power and was considered to be the top criminal organization. In 1980s the crack epidemic hit the city, thus the violent crime rate rose immensely. After 1990 to 1993 the crime rate started to drop as the epidemic came to its end. Since then till 2002 the crime rate decelerated rapidly many believe that it was because of the large number of police officers that were given charge and the capture of the major gangs by the police. Along with that it is also believed that the end of the crack epidemic also played a huge role in decreasing the number of violent crimes that seized the city during late 20th century. In 2005 the city achieved the lowest crime rate since the 19th century and later on in next year, 2006 a new law related to guns was passed by the legislature, which was passed to control the amount of people who were entitled to possess a gun. The new laws also established a gun offender registry, which required city gun dealers to inspect their inventories and file reports to the police twice a year. In 2007 a plan for extensive roadblocks and installation of web of camera were laid to keep a tab on the terrorist and the criminals in the city. In 2007 the number of homicides was just 494 however in 2008 the number of homicides increased to 523. In 2009 there was a decrease again to only 466 homicides, the lowest crime rate in the history of New York. Visit Car services JFK, JFK limo
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