SOC 2109 Chapter Article: Tipping Point: SOC2109 Chapter Article: Tipping Point: SOC2109 Article Summary 3- Tipping point
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No other place in the country where violent crime has declined so far so fast. Brooklyn north- neighbourhoods slowly start to empty out: sprawling housing projects and vacant lots. East new york is not a place of office buildings or parks and banks just of graffiti-covered bodegas and hair salons and auto shops. 1993: hundred and twenty six homicides in seven-five (what police call a town) Citywide violent crime rate that now ranks it a hundred and thirty sixth among american cities on par with boise, idaho. Car thefts have fallen to seventy one thousand down from a hundred and fifty thousand as recent as six years ago. Burglaries have fallen from more than two hundred thousand in the early 1980s to just under 75 thousand in 1995. Homicides are now at the level of the early seventies nearly half of what they were in 1990.
