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Violent crime in New York City has been dropping since 1990. In 2012, there were 414 homicides, the lowest number since at least 1963 when reliable statistics were first kept.Crime rates spiked in the 1980s and early 1990s as the crack epidemic hit the city.During the 1990s the New York City Police Department (NYPD) adopted CompStat, broken windows policing and other strategies in a major effort to reduce crime. The city's dramatic drop in crime has been attributed by criminologists to policing tactics, the end of the crack epidemic and - controversially - the legalization of abortion approximately 18 years previous and the decline of lead poisoning of children.[6] Most of the crime remaining occurs in poor areas, which tend to be outlying.
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