Page 16 - John Pfaff News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Cities need to keep people safe while not repeating the mistakes of the past | United States

Commentary By Hans Bader | May 17, 2021 | 11:37am EDT Featured is a police car with flashing lights. (Photo credit: David Butow/Corbis via Getty Images) Advocates for prisoners wrongly blame poverty for violent crime, even though violent crime frequently falls during recessions and times of economic hardship. Law professor John Pfaff is America's most famous advocate of cutting sentences for violent criminals. On May 14, he speculated that the big rise in shootings in New York City occurred due to a "pandemic" that "upended the econo...

Rising Crime Takes Center Stage In New York Mayoral Race By Catherine TRIOMPHE 05/15/21 AT 9:28 PM New York, which has long prided itself on being one of the world's safest cities, is experiencing a surge in crime, with the topic becoming a central theme of a mayoral race set to be decided in June. Crime was endemic in the Big Apple in the 1970s and 1980s when America's largest metropolis was gripped by a budgetary crisis, but it has been on a continuous downward trend since the mid-1990s. However, the picture has deteriorated drastically since last summer. What initially looked like a by...

New York - Agressions au couteau dans le métro, fusillades en série, y compris à Times Square: après s'être longtemps targuée d'être une des métropoles les plus sûres au monde, New York fait face à une criminalité en hausse, devenue un thème central de la campagne municipale.

May 14, 2021 … The three were among 170 people shot over the last four full weeks, according to police data. The last time so many people were shot over the same four-week period in New York City was 1997. The major rise in gun violence in the city began in 2020, after a period in which violent crime dropped to its lowest levels in more than six decades. To be pedantic, 2018 was the best year for fewest homicides in New York City since Joe DiMaggio played for the Yankees. 2019 was slightly worse. Whether the 2018 to 2019 uptick was just random fluctuation or as an early premonition of the ...