Sentences with phrase «percent say crime»

Twenty - five percent say that traffic makes it unsafe to walk in their neighborhoods, and 21 percent say crime makes it unsafe to walk

Twenty - one percent say jobs and the economy, 14 percent say affordable housing, 13 percent say crime and 10 percent say police / community relations.

Not exact matches

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center said it received 15,000 romance scam complaints in 2016 alone, according to the most recent data — a 20 percent increase from the previous year.

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has said that almost nine percent of Israelis use cannabis, though some Israeli experts believe the numbers are higher.

The National Association of Realtors found that while just 4 percent reported actually being the victims of a crime, 38 percent of respondents said they felt unsafe in the last year.

Importantly, only 19 percent of respondents said there is any «solid evidence» to substantiate that Trump committed a crime.

Crime dropped overall by one - fourth of one percent in 2013, McCarthy said, acknowledging «that may not sound like much,» but then he quickly mentioned the 16 percent decrease in 2012 from 2011 levels.

«This is a community with high needs,» said Amanda Carney of LISC, who said statistics show the average income per person is about $ 10,500, the unemployment rate is 23 percent, and the crime rate is 70 percent above the city's average.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) said the crime rate in the country dipped 31 percent in July, compared to the same period last year.

Along with Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña and NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said that major school crimes last year hit their lowest point since 1998 and have tumbled 18 percent since 2015.

«The consistent, problematic crime we have in the subways is pickpocketing and theft of electronic equipment, about 50 percent of which occurs from sleeping passengers,» Bratton said.

«We believe almost 50 percent of the reported crime in the subway involves sleeping passengers,» Bratton said.

Seventy - seven percent of those polled said the pension stripping should apply to all state employees - not just elected officials - who are convicted of crimes that relate to their public jobs.

There were 2,322 fewer so - called index crimes reported as of the end of September over the same period in 2015, or a 3 percent drop, officials said.

«The Buffalo Police Department has worked very hard for the 40 percent drop in crime achieved since I took office,» Brown said.

«Gun arrests in New York City, up 11.6 percent for the year, very interesting to note, and the correlation that could be there as we reduce some of the misdemeanor and violation arrests and continue our focus on drivers of violence and other crimes in New York City,» he said.

Crime was up 27 percent in New York City's biggest parks during the beginning months of the year, a disturbing spike that officials said might be because of the relatively balmy winter.

He defended his record, which he said includes the universal prekindergarten initiative, his affordable housing plan, the city's work to support and protect immigrants and reducing the use of the stop and frisk policing method «93 percent while driving down crime.»

Thirty - four percent said traffic problems would be the biggest negative impact from casinos, and 27 percent view a potential increase in crime as the top issue.

The poll found that 46 percent of New Yorkers believe crime is a «very serious» problem — and 44 percent said it's «somewhat serious.»

De Blasio says New York City is the safest big city in the United States and pointed to overall crime being down, a 93 percent drop in the use of stop and frisk policing, his neighborhood policing initiative and argues that marijuana possession arrests have gone down even as critics note an increase.

While acknowledging that sexual assault was still a problem in the city, Brewer said the numbers indicated that more women were at least coming forward to report crimes, after McCray noted that 90 percent of female college students who experience sexual assault do not report it at all.

At the latest crime statistics press conference, Police Commissioner James O'Neill said that major crime was down 5.3 percent from last September — the lowest recorded crime of any September on record.

Given that prisons are already 30 percent over-capacity, and the Legislature is passing tough - on - crime bills that are likely to put even more people behind bars, Vos said it's a foregone conclusion that a new prison will be needed.

Crime in New York City public schools fell 35 percent over the past five years and there was a 10 percent drop in school - related arrests from January to June 2016 compared to the same time period last year, local officials said.

The report also said sex crimes on the subway were up 9 percent in the first five months of 2017 compared with the same time last year.

«When you have roughly 30,000 individuals arrested a year for crimes that are 16 or 17, over 95 percent of them do not result in a criminal conviction, «Gallivan said at a news conference.

Quinn said that according to studies, crime dropped 33 percent in Los Angeles after an inspector general was appointed there.

In the report, The Public Cost of Private Bail: A Proposal to Ban Commercial Bail Bonds in NYC, Stringer said that although crime, arrests and jail admissions have fallen in the last two years, the use of commercial bail bonds grew by 12 percent and the total value of bond postings increased by 18 percent over that period.

Despite the concern, Ned McCormack, the communications director for the county executive's office, said overall crime in Westchester is down 25 percent for the latest five - year reporting period.

Crime decreased 7 percent from 2010 to 2011, Miner said.

«People are packed in like sardines,» Malliotakis said in a new television ad, «and subway sex crimes are up over 50 percent.»

For example, 28 percent of US - born Latinos said they are less likely to contact police officers if they have been the victim of a crime because they fear that police officers will use this interaction as an opportunity to inquire into their immigration status or that of people they know.

CIVIC CENTER — The NYPD's «broken windows» strategy of policing is here to stay thanks to a 4.6 percent drop in crime figures over the last year, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton said Monday.

Overall crime rose 1.5 percent that year, he said.

Last year, overall crime dropped by 4 percent — from 105,921 crimes reported in 2015 to 101,606 in 2016, police said.

Voters are split on what they consider their most pressing issue: 21 percent said the economy, 20 percent each for education and crime, while 17 cited housing and 10 percent homelessness.

With former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and former Senate leader Dean Skelos scheduled to be sentenced next month for public corruption crimes, and a recent poll showing that nearly 90 percent of New Yorkers believe unethical behavior is a serious problem in state government, Albany's political leaders have an obligation to reach a significant agreement on ethics reform, the good government groups said.

The city has seen a 94 percent rise in the number of anti-Semitic hate crimes reported so far this year, compared to the same period a year ago, the NYPD said.

They're one of the ways that we can bring police and community closer together,» said de Blasio, who spoke at the Ingersoll Houses in Brooklyn, a public housing complex that has seen an 18 - percent reduction in crime since last year.

Crime at the Polo Grounds is down 19 percent since last year but the recent shooting of Jordan Barber has left many people on edge, Olatoye said.

«Given a city like Philadelphia's prior experience with gun violence, the 29 percent reduction in crime reported in this trial could translate into hundreds of fewer shootings each year if the vacant land interventions tested here were scaled beyond just the locations of the study,» said Branas.

The fact that 20 percent of all youths and 50 percent of black teen - agers are out of work, the Gallup Poll's president said, has resulted in major social problems such as teen - age crime, drug abuse, and alcoholism.

Some judges, he said, sentenced defendants to prison 30 percent of the time and other defendants more than 60 percent of the time for similar crimes.

-- A majority of Americans (57 percent) polled said they would likely vote for a candidate for Congress who would eliminate all mandatory minimums for nonviolent crimes.

However, the criteria also says the state will cover just 66.7 percent of eligible expenses billed up to $ 10,000 for mental health, medical or dental treatment to treat injuries suffered in a crime.

Recently - released data from the National Crime Victimization Survey's School Crime Supplement shows that the percent of students who said they were bullied in 2013 declined to 21.8 (from an average of 29.3 % in the four previous biennial studies conducted between 2005 to 2011).

Crime has dropped by more than 50 percent in the last three years in the 6th District, which contains the neighborhood, Hinterlong said.

In a recent NAR survey of nearly 3,000 REALTORS ®, 96 percent said they've never been a victim of crime, but 40 percent have found themselves in situations where they have feared for their safety or the safety of their personal information.