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FreakonomicsIn the end, of course, the police increase helped every-oneБЂ”but it helped Giuliani a lot more than Dinkins. Most damaging to the claim that New YorkБЂ™s police innovations radically lowered crime is one simple and often overlooked fact: crime went down everywhere during the 1990s, not only in New York. Few other cities tried the kind of strategies that New York did, and certainly none with the same zeal. But even in Los Angeles, a city notorious for bad policing, crime fell at about the same rate as it did in New York once the growth in New YorkБЂ™s police force is accounted for. It would be churlish to argue that smart policing isnБЂ™t a good thing. Bill Bratton certainly deserves credit for invigorating New YorkБЂ™s police force. But there is frighteningly little evidence that his strategy was the crime panacea that he and the media deemed it. The next step will be to continue measuring the impact of police innovationsБЂ”in Los Angeles, for instance, where Bratton himself became police chief in late 2002. While he duly instituted some of the innovations that were his hallmark in New York, Bratton announced that his highest priority was a more basic one: finding the money to hire thousands of new police officers ...» |
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