All 7 Uses of
innovate
in
Freakonomics
- 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 *
- 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
Let's address the second one first.†
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..1
- But a careful analysis of the facts shows that the innovative policing strategies probably had little effect on this huge decline.†
p. 128..2
- 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..7
Definition:
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(innovate) bring something new to an environment