New York is becoming safer

new york - New York is getting safer. That was Police Commissioner James O'Neill pleased to say at the presentation of crime figures for 2016 are that not been so low since the nineties.

Last year there were in the metropolis for the first time less than a thousand shootings: 998. The number of homicides dropped to 335. At the end of the last century were registered annual regular 5000 2,000 cases respectively.

'At that time you could not tell what was the color of the trains in the subway was so much graffiti on it,' O'Neill said, grew up in East Flatbush, Brooklyn in the New York Times. 'I remember that vividly. I can tell you first hand that it was then a very different city. 'Why are the five most violent districts still in Brooklyn and the Bronx.

The steady decrease in crime is primarily due according to O'Neill to the focused approach of gangs. 2016 were arrested more than a thousand gang members, drug dealers and accomplices in 107 carefully planned police actions. Moreover, they ran longer prison with better evidence.