Thirdly, there's also the effect of the newer policing techniques, like the 'broken windows' approach. It's likely some mix of all three.
Or the non-effect of them.
Crime rates have dropped drastically across the board, across the country, in many places that didn't make their policing policies more fascist as NYC's government chose to.
From the MJ article:
Second, and far more puzzling, it's not just New York that has
seen a big drop in crime. In city after city, violent crime peaked
in the early '90s and then began a steady and spectacular
decline. Washington, DC, didn't have either Giuliani or Bratton, but
its violent crime rate has dropped 58 percent since its
peak. Dallas' has fallen 70 percent. Newark: 74 percent. Los
Angeles: 78 percent.
There must be more going on here than just a change in policing
tactics in one city.I wonder how much of it is associated with anti poverty programs.