Abstract
The article examines crime fighting methods in New York City, where the rates of many crimes, including homicide, robbery, and burglary, have dropped by over 80 percent between 1990 and 2011. Studies of the crime rate in New York suggest that many common assumptions about links between crime and drug use, poverty, and incarceration rates are false. The city effected this change in part by employing its police force in recognized "hotspots," areas that statistics showed had higher concentrations of crime, and implementing a more aggressive policy for street stops and misdemeanor arrests. The article concludes that these findings may lead to advances in the science of criminology. INSET: IN BRIEF.
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