Because We’ve Got the Lowest Crime Rate in 40 Years (and the Lowest of Any Major U.S. City)

Because We’ve Got the Lowest Crime Rate in 40 Years (and the Lowest of Any Major U.S. City)

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By Ira Boudway
Published Oct 24, 2007

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While crime is down across New York, nowhere has it dropped more than in Washington Heights and Inwood, where felonies have declined by 85 percent over the last fifteen years. Here, a side-by-side comparison of major crimes in the 34th Precinct, 1990 to 2005.