New YorkDaily News Staff Report
Monday, December 28th 2009, 2:29 PM
Worms in the Big Apple
Do you consider New York a safe city?
The city's murder rate is on target to be at a record low - and the overall crime rate keeps plummeting, too, officials said Monday.
New figures show the murder rate and overall crime rate each dropped 11% from last year. The only major crime that went up was felony assault, which rose 2%.
Officials said there were 461 murders in the city thru Sunday, compared to 516 in the same period last year.
Mayor Bloomberg said the figures mark the 19th straight year in which major felony crime declined.
"The numbers are staggering," the mayor told the city's new graduating class of police recruits.
"Since 2001, we've driven murder down by 29%, rape down by 38%, robbery down by 34% - the list goes on.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said crime dropped in every borough and in nearly every category.
The projected homicide rate would be the lowest since comparable records were kept beginning in 1963.
"crime rate" of a country does not say much. most there are certain dangerous places. few countries are dangerous at all.
ReplyDeleteI wish we could say the same for New Orleans' crime rate ma. Murder rate up every year since '98
ReplyDeleteumm its lowkey poppin sumtimes. Parties out here are live! But crime rate is lowkey high =/...how's ny?
ReplyDeleteNYC - Mayor Bloomberg & NYPD Commissionar Kelly announced today that overall crime fell 11% in 2009, murder rate lowest level since 1960's
ReplyDeleteI'd actually never heard anything about the crime rate there.
ReplyDelete...they always say we have a high crime rate...yes we do have, not that bad! In my 17 years only once did somethng happen to me.
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