New YorkDaily News Staff Report
Monday, December 28th 2009, 2:29 PM
Worms in the Big Apple
Do you consider New York a safe city?
The city's murder rate is on target to be at a record low - and the overall crime rate keeps plummeting, too, officials said Monday.
New figures show the murder rate and overall crime rate each dropped 11% from last year. The only major crime that went up was felony assault, which rose 2%.
Officials said there were 461 murders in the city thru Sunday, compared to 516 in the same period last year.
Mayor Bloomberg said the figures mark the 19th straight year in which major felony crime declined.
"The numbers are staggering," the mayor told the city's new graduating class of police recruits.
"Since 2001, we've driven murder down by 29%, rape down by 38%, robbery down by 34% - the list goes on.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said crime dropped in every borough and in nearly every category.
The projected homicide rate would be the lowest since comparable records were kept beginning in 1963.
Higher taxes, higher water, sewer and trash = less public safety? I must have missed something while pondering our "flat" crime rate.
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