Perhaps interesting because as a society we pay a shocking lot for measures we are told are to do with dealing crime blows. We pay, more than for universities, towards keeping other humans locked as they are dangerous, pay for police and judicial systems, we pay for politicians to help keep us poor lot safe from one another (..and poorer..), we pay for the resulting hierarchies, and pay for paying by considering a numerical economic systems essential – which kind of helps some people consider transgressing despite then becoming, err, criminals..?
2015 – Why would decline should visit crime?
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/14/new-york-plunging-murder-rate-why
1994 – wow, check the crime figures!
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1144255?sid=21105924027323&uid=3738032&uid=4&uid=70&uid=2&uid=2129
mid 0ies – not much hypo, but shows decline:
2013 – nice graphs:
http://www.citylab.com/politics/2013/02/was-nypd-really-responsible-new-yorks-famous-drop-crime/4616/
2004 – re 90’s –
http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu/levitt/Papers/LevittUnderstandingWhyCrime2004.pdf
2013 again and being civil:
http://www.insidescience.org/content/mystery-new-yorks-falling-crime-rate-remains-unsolved/937
2014 and mixing hypothesis with theories into a mushy salad..?
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2014/11/24/10-not-entirely-crazy-theories-explaining-the-great-crime-decline
2015 and crime is dropping but not its pants:
http://www.vox.com/2015/2/13/8032231/crime-drop
2015 – 2011 and a tough policeguy image while crime is going down causlessly?
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304066504576345553135009870
2014 – huffing and violent crime?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-weisser/violent-crime-cities_b_4760996.html
A relevant wikipedia page –
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_New_York_City