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The Topic
Crime (shorthand for Crime, Police and the Courts) refers to relationships among criminal activity, the police, the courts and community life.
The Context
The decline in New York City’s crime was the great unanticipated and controversial story of the 1990s. Was the stupendous decline in all major crime indicators a vindication of broken windows policing, which argues that minor crime breeds both disorder and more serious crime and therefore must be fought tenaciously? Or did crime decline because of changing demographics, better education, the decline in the crack epidemic, and more affluence? Post-9/11 New York must contend with all its old problems of violent and petty crime, while also facing the enormous security issues posed by terrorism.