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Originally Posted by PaulS
So why did crime start to go down across the whole US 4-5 years before Guiliani was elected Mayor of NY?
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From National Bureau of Economic research:
"During the 1990s, crime rates in New York City dropped dramatically, even more than in the United States as a whole. Violent crime declined by more than 56 percent in the City, compared to about 28 percent in the nation as whole. Property crimes tumbled by about 65 percent, but fell only 26 percent nationally."
Giuliani was mayor most of those years.