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- It was the sort of innovative policing strategies put into place in New York City, where murders would fall from 2,262 in 1990 to 540 in 2005.†
p. 3.3 *innovative = new and different
- Norma McCorvey had a far greater impact on crime than did the combined forces of gun control, a strong economy, and innovative police strategies.†
p. 12.8
- Which naturally leads to a related pair of crime-drop explanations:
Innovative policing strategies
Increased number of police†p. 124.9 - But it wasn't only the number of police that changed in the 1990s; consider the most commonly cited crime-drop explanation of all: innovative policing strategies.†
p. 126.5
- New York City was a clear innovator in police strategies during the 1990s crime drop, and it also enjoyed the greatest decline in crime of any large American city.†
p. 128.1innovator = someone who brings something new to an environment
- But a careful analysis of the facts shows that the innovative policing strategies probably had little effect on this huge decline.†
p. 128.2innovative = new and different
- Most damaging to the claim that New York's police innovations radically lowered crime is one simple and often overlooked fact: crime went down everywhere during the 1990s, not only in New York.†
p. 129.3innovations = the introduction of things that are new and different; or things that are new and different
- The next step will be to continue measuring the impact of police innovations—in Los Angeles, for instance, where Bratton himself became police chief in late 2002.†
p. 129.8
- While he duly instituted some of the innovations that were his hallmark in New York, Bratton announced that his highest priority was a more basic one: finding the money to hire thousands of new police officers.†
p. 129.9
- New York City had high abortion rates and lay within an early-legalizing state, a pair of facts that further dampen the claim that innovative policing caused the crime drop.†
p. 141.7innovative = new and different
- Most innovations in the field of child safety are affiliated with—shock of shocks—a new product to be marketed.†
p. 153.7innovations = the introduction of things that are new and different; or things that are new and different
Definitions:
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(1)
(innovate) bring something new to an environment
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)