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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.

Standing in the 105th Precinct stationhouse in Queens Village, de Blasio said overall crime had dropped 4.2 % in April, compared with the same month last year.

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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.

«These two priorities are important to the overall operations, budget efficiency, new initiatives, community policing and many of the programs currently in progress to keep crime low in our City and focus on building partnerships in our communities,» Public Safety Chair Vanessa Gibson (D - Bronx) said in a statement.

Meanwhile, another opponent is nonpartisan group Common Cause New York, which put out a statement saying with overall crime dropping in Dutchess County, legislators should seek lower - cost, creative alternatives.

Crime statistics for the City of Rochester in 2016 were unveiled Tuesday and with that came optimism from Mayor Lovely Warren, who said shootings were down overall, thanks in part to a sharp focus on illegal guns.

Despite a spate of random slashings and stabbings that have people under stably scared, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said the city is on pace for «our best years ever on shootings and homicides» and predicted that overall crime would be down once again at the end of the year.

Crime statistics for the city of Rochester in 2016 were unveiled Tuesday and with that came optimism from Mayor Lovely Warren, who said shootings were down overall, thanks in part to a sharp focus on illegal guns.

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.

And he says as fewer people are convicted and sentenced for lesser drug crimes, the inmate population overall has grown more violent and dangerous.

The agency says violent crime is also declining, and the overall prison population has shrunk by one quarter since a high point in 1999.

Overall crime rose 1.5 percent that year, he said.

Though the number of NYC shootings is up, NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said crime is down overall.

ASP Irene Oppong said the initiative was in line with the Inspector General Police's overall strategy of reducing crime.

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

Bellone touted a drop in overall crime so far in 2017, compared with last year, but said the MS - 13 gang remains a focus of his administration and Suffolk police.

But Levitan has previously said that under de Blasio, overall crime is down, jobs are at record highs and said that the city is building and preserving affordable housing at a record pace.

The new police commissioner, Bill Bratton, pointed out that the unusually chilly winter may also be playing a role in the overall crime decline, but experts say targeted programs against gangs and neighborhood crime spikes are the more likely explanation.

He also says as fewer people are convicted and sentenced for lesser drug crimes, the inmate population overall has grown more violent and dangerous.

On Sunday, Bratton also said the city is on pace for «our best years ever on shootings and homicides» and predicted that overall crime would be down once again at the end of the year.

So, the decrease in disruptive behavior in the classroom is probably due to the overall decrease in juvenile crimes across the nation and not because of zero tolerance policies, the article says.

«Overall, bullying and victimization is down in our schools and crime has decreased at our colleges and universities, but there is much work left to be done,» Peggy G. Carr, acting commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics, said in a statement.

Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal also stated that the government would establish a National Tiger Conservation Authority as well as a Wildlife Crime Control Committee saying, «The solutions will be area specific, but the future of conservation will depend upon how we act now and how we make tiger conservation and overall biodiversity much more valuable to the livelihoods of local communities.»