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City Homicides Drop Sharply, Again; Police Cite New Antigang Strategy
Submitted by Bradley Keyes on Fri, 2013-07-05 00:00
The number of homicides on record in New York City has dropped significantly during the first half of the year — to 154 from 202 in the same period last year — surprising even police officials who have long been accustomed to trumpeting declining crime rates in the city....The relationship between the drop in murders and the department’s controversial policy of stopping, questioning and sometimes frisking people on the street was hard to immediately divine.
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