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Crime Down In Ny

NPR
Published December 26, 1996 at 11:00 PM CST

It seems certain that New York City will have less than one thousand homicides...for the first time since 1968. Crime overall is down throughout the city...Melissa Block reports on what this drop in crime means, and how the city's police force brought about the changes.

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