Over the past 27 years, crime in New York city has dropped by almost a whopping 90%.
Sparko and others here have been telling me that crime is an inherent product of the human sinful condition... so I guess we should praise God for his miraculous intervention to undo human sinfulness en masse in NY city post-1990?
An NYT article from the end of last year:
Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since the 1950s:
Fast-forward to this week:
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So not only are murders down almost 90% from 1990, with improvements for 27 years straight, but murders in 2018 are down 10% from 2017. What this clearly demonstrates is that crime is not something inevitable that is somehow tied to the 'sinful human condition', but rather that crime rates are a product of particular environments and are affected by dozens of variables from employment opportunities to policing strategies to dozens of other government policies and cultural and economic conditions. Rather than just dismiss crime as done by "bad people" who are just guilty of "bad choices" and who thus need to take "individual responsibility", we can and should look at the systemic and social causes of crime and change our policies and culture and environment to produce less of it, because in doing so we can potentially change the crime rates by a factor of 10, as NYC demonstrates.
Sparko and others here have been telling me that crime is an inherent product of the human sinful condition... so I guess we should praise God for his miraculous intervention to undo human sinfulness en masse in NY city post-1990?
An NYT article from the end of last year:
Crime in New York City Plunges to a Level Not Seen Since the 1950s:
Fast-forward to this week:
:
Murders in the city overall continue to drop, down 10 percent from last year at this time.
So not only are murders down almost 90% from 1990, with improvements for 27 years straight, but murders in 2018 are down 10% from 2017. What this clearly demonstrates is that crime is not something inevitable that is somehow tied to the 'sinful human condition', but rather that crime rates are a product of particular environments and are affected by dozens of variables from employment opportunities to policing strategies to dozens of other government policies and cultural and economic conditions. Rather than just dismiss crime as done by "bad people" who are just guilty of "bad choices" and who thus need to take "individual responsibility", we can and should look at the systemic and social causes of crime and change our policies and culture and environment to produce less of it, because in doing so we can potentially change the crime rates by a factor of 10, as NYC demonstrates.
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