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New York City crime fell to historic low in 2016
Source: Reuters
U.S. | Wed Jan 4, 2017 | 2:45pm EST
New York City crime fell to historic low in 2016
By David Ingram | NEW YORK
Crime in New York City fell to a historic low last year, the police said on Wednesday in a report showing that the largest U.S. city avoided the spike in murders that has battered other major American cities, including Chicago.
Overall, there were 101,606 crimes that police said they knew about during 2016, down 4 percent from 2015, police said.
There were 335 murders reported last year, down 5 percent from the 352 murders a year earlier, police said. The record for the fewest since the city started keeping reliable numbers in 1963 was 328 murders in 2014.
By way of comparison, Chicago, which has about one-third as many residents as New York's 8.6 million people, recorded 762 murders last year, more than twice as many killings as in New York.
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New York City crime fell to historic low in 2016
By David Ingram | NEW YORK
Crime in New York City fell to a historic low last year, the police said on Wednesday in a report showing that the largest U.S. city avoided the spike in murders that has battered other major American cities, including Chicago.
Overall, there were 101,606 crimes that police said they knew about during 2016, down 4 percent from 2015, police said.
There were 335 murders reported last year, down 5 percent from the 352 murders a year earlier, police said. The record for the fewest since the city started keeping reliable numbers in 1963 was 328 murders in 2014.
By way of comparison, Chicago, which has about one-third as many residents as New York's 8.6 million people, recorded 762 murders last year, more than twice as many killings as in New York.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-new-york-crime-idUSKBN14O22M
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