le to understand what behavior is accepted and what behavior is not. They say that they have increased police attention to troubled neighborhoods in accordance with the idea of fixing broken windows. The NYPD believe that these tactics that they have now adopted along with the supporting legislation have led to the overwhelming drop in the crime rate, particular to New York City.Many however do not believe that the new police tactics or the new crime prevention legislation have anything to do with the fall in the crime rate. In an article by Andrew Karmen, Karmen posses that the correlation between the crime rate falling and the police force are weak at best. He says that there is no direct pattern or trend in the relationship of the crime rate and new police techniques. An example he gives is the clearance sales or the solved crimes statistic used in murder cases. The trend is that as more murders are solved the committed murders go down, and visa versa, however according to the statistics this doesn’t hold true for past numbers when the solved murders went down and murders themselves went down. Another example that Karmen brings is the drop in visible murders or crimes, crimes that are committed in an area where a cop on foot or in a patrol car can see. According to the NYPD, crimes in the areas that are covered by cops have fallen dramatically also leading to a drop in the amount of non-visible crimes. However, Karmen states that this comparison is weak at best because the pattern doesn’t always fit. He uses the example that even though the amount of crimes went down the amount of time for the police to respond to went up also, so this would led most to believe that another variable was causing the crime to go down. One of the NYPD’s prize statistics is that the amount of crimes committed with fire arms have plummeted, due to the fact that the amount of misdemeanor crimes arrests have gone up. The idea is that if th...
