Discussion and further work
The latest NYPD statistics reported that overall crime rate in October 2017 has dropped 2.2 percent compared to the same period last year. While Mayor de Blasio and Police Commissioner Bratton proudly praised this good news, they failed to highlight one discouraging statistics: the 16.7 percent uptick in reported rapes compared with last year.
Back in January, Mayor de Blasio has assured that New York Justice System takes sexual crime “very, very seriously, period”. But their corresponding strategies are yet unknown.
A more devastating finding conducted by nypost (2016) points out, that for the past few years, arrest rates for rape crime are inversely proportionaly to the total reported rape crimes. According to the report, NYPD was managed to arrest 71.2 percent of the total rape crimes in 2009. This number fell steadily to 51.1 percent in 2012 (before de Blasio took office), bouncing up to 56.9 percent in 2014 before dropping to 55.1 percent last year. This is something that the city should takes more seriously of.
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