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...course, if the economy does play such a key role we could be in for a spike, with unemployment already on the rise - 5% in December - and fears of a recession mounting. Some observers say its impact is already visible in some smaller cities and rural parts of the country, where violent crime has been on the uptick in recent years. Others say a more simple formula is behind it. "What goes up comes down," said James Alan Fox, a leading criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston. "But in big cities, there was more room to drop, and in small...
...Chicago, Frank Limon, the man who is in charge of tracking the ups and downs of crime and conceiving strategies to battle the upswings, said the impact of technology can't be overlooked. "You can't rely on one strategy; you have to make them flexible to deal with the gangs and the drug dealing," said Limon, who is the acting deputy superintendent of the CPD's bureau of crime strategy and accountability. "But technology, for us, this has worked. Take just the cameras [which sit atop poles, are monitored constantly and focus on hotspots...
...York, where programs such as Operation Impact has teamed veterans with rookies in the neediest hotspots for the past four years, it's hard to get around the policies that took shape under former mayor and presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani. Even the most minor of crimes - jaywalking, urinating in an alley, turnstile jumping - were pursued with vigor under the notion that cutting out the everyday "quality-of-life crimes" would help reduce the majors, such as murder, rape, robbery and assault...
...losses are dragging down real estate prices in industrial-belt states like Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin. But the reverse is true in states like California, Florida and Nevada, where the collapse of a speculative real estate market is threatening jobs. In the Northeast, voters are more concerned about the impact of soaring energy prices on the cost of their home heating oil. That makes it harder for presidential candidates to wrap their arms around the issue, even as voters are demanding that they do. "It is one of those periods where there is a lot of unevenness," says former Congressional...
Indeed, many participants were cautiously optimistic that the Alliance could have an impact with such initiatives. Michaelis, for one, was encouraged by what he heard about the media mechanism. "The people from the U.N. were very open, they got the message," he says. "They understand that it can't be the usual suspects, the same major media corporations. It can work, as long as it has diverse voices and isn't censored...