Quote Originally Posted by ziggyselbin View Post
Really Detroit had crime reduction like nyc? you're high if you think that
He said that most major cities experienced significant reductions in crime. Yes, Detroit too.

''In five of the six study communities,'' the report found, ''homicide rates track quite closely with cocaine use levels among the adult male arrestee population.'' The report said that when homicide rates increased in the mid-1980's with the advent of the crack epidemic, ''cocaine-test positive rates generally increased. Similarly, when homicide rates declined, cocaine-test positive rates also generally declined.''

The report did not address the question of why crack use might drive homicide rates, but experts have suggested that it might be the pharmacological properties of the drug, which creates a brief, intense high, often with feelings of paranoia, or the way crack spawned a new type of drug market, bringing in large numbers of younger dealers who began arming themselves with semiautomatic handguns.

The study, which was requested by Attorney General Reno to try to understand what has led to the drop in homicide rates since 1992, is to be released next month. The cities that were selected were those that showed the clearest patterns in homicide trends, including Detroit and Washington as well as Indianapolis, where crack use and homicide rates have risen sharply in the 1990's, an exception to the national declines.
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/27/us...pagewanted=all

Ignorance is not sexy.