Crime Free?

Monday the 26th was the first date in history that a murder has not been reported in New York City. As the article explained, the NYPD were celebrating this accomplishment. In the last ten years NYC crime has been declining, and this past Monday was “the first time in living memory” that no one had been shot or stabbed there. The use of logos is most prevalent in the article as it uses numbers and historical records to explain Monday’s importance.The article provides an historical perspective as it describes the height of crimes in New York City during the 199’s. In 1990 there were 2,245 murders. In 1994, 14 people were shot a day. I personally had never realized how many people were killed in NYC. This statistic about the 90s shocked me as it was meant to do. Tom Reppetto, a NYPD historian, described this situation: ‘“We lived in a town where people were afraid to come out of their houses, where babies slept in bathtubs to avoid getting shot, where nursery schools ran drills- ‘When you hear the shots, drop down.”’ If this was true of NYC today, I doubt there would be as many tourists as there are.  Few would want to shop in a city where babies had to lie in bathtubs. Although perhaps slightly exaggerated, the statistic emphasizes the changes in the city, and the radical decline in crime over the last twelve years.

http://www.theprovince.com/news/York+breaks+record+with+without+violent+crime/7634483/story.html#axzz2E87OC9E2