planning a trip to NYC this year

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NEW YORK (AP) -- The city is on track to have fewer than 500 murders in 2007, the lowest amount in a 12-month period in more than 40 years, according to a published report Thursday.


New York City's murder rate is on track to be the lowest in more than 40 years.

There were 427 murders logged as of Monday -- 411 killings plus 16 crime victims who died this year from injuries they got years ago, The New York Times reported on its Web site. That makes the city's average slightly more than one per day.

Last year, the city reported 579 homicides through December 24 -- a nearly 10 percent increase from the year before.

The city's homicide rate reached an all-time high of 2,245 in 1990, making it the murder capital of the nation. Since then, the rate has plummeted to levels not seen since the 1960s. There were 570 homicides in 2004, dropping to 539 in 2005.

This year, police have determined a relationship between the victim and assailant in nearly half of the slayings committed as of November 18, The Times reported. The motives in the remainder of the killings were still being analyzed.

The majority died in disputes with acquaintances, rival drug crew members or spouses and family.

Police department analysts found only 35 cases where the victim did not know the killer, as compared to 121 instances last year, officials said, according to The Times.

In the first half of 2007, New York City had a 5 percent decline in violent crimes, 23,887, down from 25,132. The city also had a 4 percent drop in property crimes for the first half of the year, according to a recent state report. E-mail to a friend

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this should certainly give you a reasonable amount of security !!!!

[aslan]

Only 500 murders? Heck! Leave the doors open and the windows unlocked!

Funny thing--I was visiting my Mother-in-law in the Bronx. I walked up the street about a block from her high-rise apartment in one of the better neighborhoods near Pelham Parkway and noticed the twenty or so automobiles parked along the curb. Each and everyone of them had a steering wheel lock. Hahaha!

Nothing like the street sounds in NYC when you're trying to sleep, too. There's a continuous symphony of auto alarms going off from the surrounding neighborhoods.

[shadroch]

Originally Posted by aslan

Only 500 murders? Heck! Leave the doors open and the windows unlocked!

Funny thing--I was visiting my Mother-in-law in the Bronx. I walked up the street about a block from her high-rise apartment in one of the better neighborhoods near Pelham Parkway and noticed the twenty or so automobiles parked along the curb. Each and everyone of them had a steering wheel lock. Hahaha!

Nothing like the street sounds in NYC when you're trying to sleep, too. There's a continuous symphony of auto alarms going off from the surrounding neighborhoods.

Out of curiosity,when was this? I haven't seen many steering wheel locks since the 90s.Funny thing was about that time,people were unscrewing their steering wheels and I'd make them check them at the door. One night my coat check girl gave someone the wrong steering wheel.Boy,was the rightful owner pissed.

NYC's murder rate-ie murders per 100,000 people is very low. In fact,it has dropped almost every year since Mayor Rudy left office.Wonder why he never brings that up?

[aslan]

Originally Posted by shadroch

Out of curiosity,when was this? I haven't seen many steering wheel locks since the 90s.Funny thing was about that time,people were unscrewing their steering wheels and I'd make them check them at the door. One night my coat check girl gave someone the wrong steering wheel.Boy,was the rightful owner pissed.

NYC's murder rate-ie murders per 100,000 people is very low. In fact,it has dropped almost every year since Mayor Rudy left office.Wonder why he never brings that up?

One year ago, my friend. It's that contraption that places a red bar through the steering wheel to lock it from use. I believe it was Kruger Avenue, the same street where "Freddie Kruger" of Nighmare on Elm Street fame grew up. Just a little trivia.