Last month, at the City University of New York, I lectured about how evolutions in data-led policing strategies helped New York City reduce annual murder numbers from 2,245 in 1990 to just 292 in 2017 — and from 93 annual fatal police shootings in 1971 to just six a half-century later.
At the same time, city jail and New York State prison populations have also seen their numbers more than halved.
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Hannah Meyers is director of the policing and public safety initiative at the Manhattan Institute.
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