The Tipping Point
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New York City Crime
In 19 92 in new york city, there were two thousand, 100 murders and six hun 26 thousand serious crimes. Within five years, murders had dropped by 65%. So they were down to 770, and total crimes had been cut in half. That's not like a gradual decrease, that's a tip. It just went smash. And so the crime was disappearing at a wilder rate. All f a sudden, again, you had your streets fill up with pedestrians and bicycles - old folk not too afraid of getting a bullet in the lefe.
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