FOP President lashes out at 'sensationalists, liars and race-baiters'

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That nihlistic view is common in police departments having officers who never served under good leadership having a proactive policing strategy. This city has only had a little of that, none of it under the past 2 Chiefs. You can't just stand up a unit or a task force. Command does as the Mayors staff instruct and you can't stop a crime wave with a half @ssed politically correct strategy and unhappy demoralized officers. I only see crime getting worse every month, not better, but they are far more concerned about antipolice activist protests unpsetting their political base.

http://www.nber.org/digest/jan03/w9061.html

The police measure that most consistently reduces crime is the arrest rate of those involved in crime, the study finds. Felony arrest rates (except for motor vehicle thefts) rose 50 to 70 percent in the 1990s. When arrests of burglars increased 10 percent, the number of burglaries fell 2.7 to 3.2 percent. When the arrest rate of robbers rose 10 percent, the number of robberies fell 5.7 to 5.9 percent. In the case of murder, the decline was 3.9 to 4 percent; in the case of assault, 2 to 2.4 percent; and for motor vehicle theft, 5 to 5.1 percent.

The contribution of such deterrence measures (the "stick") offers more explanation for the decline in New York City crime than the improvement in the economy, the authors conclude. Between 1990 and 1999, homicide dropped 73 percent, burglary 66 percent, assault 40 percent, robbery 67 percent, and vehicle hoists 73 percent. The authors' model manages to explain between 33 and 86 percent of those declines.