Crime in New York City

New York City Trip On July 10-17, my family and I took a trip to New York City. This was our first trip her and we were very excited to see all the sights. My half-brother used to live in New York and we just never got around to seeing them, plus I was too young to really enjoy the New York experience. New York City is one of the best and busiest places in the United States. The state is full of history both good and bad. B. We did a lot of things that common tourist usually do. First,…

can be relaxing and peaceful. The city life on the other hand might not seem that way with all the loud movement of vehicles and people. Living in the city can sometimes be fast paced and too stressful. For some people that life is great. Even though both lifestyles share the same routine of work and sleep, the country lifestyle is less stressful than the city life in many ways. Examples of lifestyle differences include population, hospitality, pollution and crime. The first thing most people…

if they have reasonable suspicion that the person has committed or is about to commit a crime. The New York City Liberty Union website provides a total number of how many people were stopped from the year 2002 to 2016, while also providing a racial breakdown of how many of that total were blacks, whites, and Latinos. According to this website, in 2016 from January to September, there were a total of 10,171 New Yorkers who were stopped and frisked.Of the 10,171 people, 54 percent were black, 29…

My first official memory of New York would be taking place in the Bronx, summer of 2003. I was five years old sitting outside on the steps of our apartment building in the Grand Concourse, which is known as “The Project Village”. You could hear the Spanish music that blasted from the other apartment windows, and see the smaller kids like me getting ready to have relay races and actually enjoy the sun, and my favorite which was seeing the coquito man come up the hill with his truck. A coquito in…

The New York Police Department has grown significantly over the past 160 years. Now there are a little under 35,000 uniformed officers vigilance officers in the streets and 51,000 employees overall. There are 8 million people in New York City with a ratio of 4.18 police officer per 1,000 people. The NYPD mission was to improve the lifestyle of the city by “enforce the law, preserve the peace, reduce fear, and provide for a safe environment” (NYPD Mission). The NYPD duties are “enforcing laws,…

In the 1990s then mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani pushed the broken windows theory of crime control and made changes to the police departments accordingly. However, David Dinkin, who was mayor before Giuliani, was truly the one who began this method of policing. He hired 8,000 new officers and a new police commissioner. (Business Insider) While it is true that New York’s crime rates have dropped in the past few decades, the reasons behind this are unclear. Broken windows methods also raise…

As someone who grew up in a city surrounded by the Andes mountains, the idea of visiting the city of New York became a dream to fulfill. From the beginning I was impressed by Manhattan’s skyscrapers and the view of the skyline from far away. Famous attractions like Times Square, Central Park, the Empire State Building, and the Brooklyn Bridge instantly became places that I wanted to visit one day. Two years ago I was finally able to visit New York City and I was not disappointed. Besides the key…

would smuggle alcohol into the country to make the thirsty Americans happy. This saw an extreme rise in the American underworld and organized crime. Organized crime in the 1920’s served as platform which has now allowed it to thrive in the present day. It affected the people of the 1920’s, created struggle of law and government enforcement and…

that if residents maintained and monitored their neighborhoods small crimes would drop…

Why is crime such a large part of our everyday society? Since the beginning of time, crime has been a large part of history, which gradually increased throughout the years, and continues today in everyday life. Crime is something that is caused by either force, impulse, fun, accident, or environmental factors. Some people have been raised since childhood in areas where crime rates were at a high and this may have compelled them to follow a negative figure, thus resulting in that person…