Sentences with phrase «from higher crime rates»

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Ought we to be surprised that black youths isolated from the labor market, marginalized by decrepit urban schools, devalued by alienating ideals of beauty and targeted by an unprecedented drug invasion exhibit high rates of crime and teen - age pregnancy?

This was more than welcome in a region that has to cope with political instability, high crime rates, a tea industry suffering from falling prices and rising costs, and a large part of the population living below poverty level.

Indeed, «data on firearms ownership by constabulary area in England,» like data from the United States, show «a negative correlation,» that is, «where firearms are most dense violent crime rates are lowest, and where guns are least dense violent crime rates are highest.»

Similar measures are underway in Scotland, which suffers from Britain's highest rates of alcohol related crime.

The decrease comes in contrast to concerns that the city would see a return to the high crime rates on the 1970s and 1990s as the NYPD turns away from the Bloomberg administration's heavy reliance on controversial stop - and - frisk tactics.

Most of the Bloomberg administration's claimed successes — from falling crime stats to higher high school graduation rates — came from the efforts of city workers.

«The other factor is they are coming down from upstate, where the crime rate is actually higher.

«The country remains impoverished by many indications... In the 20 years between June 12, 1993 election and today, Nigeria has earned enough money to create a Dubai in each of the six geo - political zones and make our citizens some of the most prosperous people on earth, but what we have instead is collapse of infrastructure, deepening poverty (70 % rate from 45 % in 1999), social dislocations, high unemployment rate and violent crimes.»

The research, conducted by Leah Schinasi, PhD, assistant research professor, and Ghassan Hamra, PhD, assistant professor, both of Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health, was published in the Journal of Urban Health and used a decade's worth of crime data in Philadelphia (from 2006 until 2015) to find that rates of violent crime and disorderly conduct increased when daily temperatures are higher.

Forensic hospitals, on the other hand, which hold and treat offenders found not guilty by reason of insanity, have a very high success rate in preventing disordered individuals from returning to crime.

Indeed, in a 2011 analysis of game sales from 2004 to 2008, A. Scott Cunningham of Baylor University, Benjamin Engelsttter of the Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim, Germany, and Michael R. Ward of the University of Texas at Arlington found that higher rates of violent game sales actually coincided with a drop in crimes, especially violent crimes.

Yet the United States already bears costs from our broken education system, including higher crime rates, additional expenses for health - care and public - assistance programs, and lost tax revenue as well as the untold costs of telling generations of children in chronically under - resourced, low - performing schools: «You don't matter!»

Juvenile arrest rates dropped by 32 percent between 1980 and 2011, while adult crime rates plummeted sharply from their highs in the 1990s.

Furthermore, schools serving students from neighborhoods with the highest crime rates and the fewest social resources predominantly serve African American students; thus, most of the schools in Chicago where students and teachers report the lowest levels of safety serve a majority African American student population.

Public charter schools, transit access, and violent crime rates Elementary school neighborhoods with the highest public charter school participation rates are statistically different in all categories aside from home ownership and population change, which is aligned with differences in characteristics for neighborhoods with high and low boundary participation.

In Arizona, adopted children are eligible for education savings accounts, and children in foster care are eligible for private school scholarships (like homeless children, children in the foster care system also appear in crime and prison statistics at higher rates than their peers from intact families).

For the prekindergarten program alone, they identified $ 92,220 in present value benefits and $ 8,512 in present value costs in 2007 dollars — a benefit - cost ratio of 10.83 to 1.22 The benefits derived mainly from reduced public education expenditures due to lower grade retention and use of special education, reduced costs to the criminal justice system and victims of crime due to lower crime rates, reduced expenditures on child welfare due to less child abuse and neglect, higher projected earnings of center participants, and increased income tax revenue due to projected higher lifetime earnings of center participants.

From a Shawnee Indian settlement to a busy railroad depot to a small agricultural community, the town has evolved into a haven for families largely due to its low crime rate and higher incomes.

For example, if you're waiting in an emergency room in a city that has higher obesity and violent crime rates, you'll have a longer wait than you would in an area that's less problematic from a health standpoint.

-- «America, with one of the highest incarceration rates on the planet, has to yet to reap the crime - free panacea that should surely have resulted from their decades of get - tough - on - crime legislation.»

America, with one of the highest incarceration rates on the planet, has to yet to reap the crime - free panacea that should surely have resulted from their decades of get - tough - on - crime legislation.

Despite higher rates of victimization, younger Canadians were more satisfied with their personal safety from crime than older Canadians.

Because your policy will compensate you for losses that result from property crimes, owning a mobile home in a high - crime area is likely to elevate your mobile home insurance rates.

In Leominster, crime rates vary from one neighborhood to the next, but if your business is located in a high - crime area, you could see an increase in insurance rates.

If you move from a city with a high crime rate to a rural area without adding a large amount of miles to your weekly drive, you can be sure your vehicle insurance rates will drop.

Apart from high auto insurance rates, Detroit also has rising crime rates and extremely high - income tax rates.

If your neighborhood has high crime rates, is prone to natural disasters, and located far from fire hydrants, you will be paying more for your home insurance.

Similarly, buying a home in a neighborhood that is having problems with crime can lead to higher premiums for the same reason: because the risk of something going wrong is factors regarding your home that will affect your rates include the materials your house is built from and the actual square footage of the dwelling.

From 2005 through 2009, the U.S. Department of Justice reported that mental health occupations had the second highest average annual rate of workplace violence, 21 violent crimes per 1,000 employed persons aged 16 or older.

The Crime Survey for England and Wales (Home Office, 2016 — PDF download) showed that men are more likely to take illicit drugs than women This partly explains the higher mortality rate from drug misuse in males, but does not explain the sharper rises seen in males in recent years.

«For every one dollar invested in high - quality, comprehensive programs supporting children and families from birth,» the platform says, «there is a $ 7 - $ 10 return to society in decreased need for special education services, higher graduation and employment rates, less crime, less use of the public welfare system and better health.»

Since the program began in 1990, classes from 12 schools located in neighborhoods with a higher - than - average rate of juvenile crime from the Eugene / Springfield area have participated.

In 1998, the serious violent crime offending rate for youth was 27 crimes per 1,000 adolescents ages 12 to17, totaling 616,000 such crimes involving juveniles — a drop by more than half from the 1993 high, and the lowest level since data were first collected in 1973.»

High rates of joblessness trigger other neighborhood problems that undermine social organization, ranging from crime, gang violence, and drug trafficking to family breakups and problems in the organization of family life.

Newark's average home value in August 2017 was $ 227,600, but the city's high crime rates prevent it from being an attractive choice for many homebuyers.

But problems such as high crime rates and overcrowded schools can deter consumers from buying homes in an area.

That risk often takes the form of a property located in a rough neighborhood with high crime rates, low school quality, higher turnover and eviction rates and property damage from defaulting tenants.