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...York and Chicago, and in the absence of a blue-ribbon commission of experts who can get to the bottom of this mystery, we are all left with just speculation, conflicting theories, and self-serving claims for credit by interested parties, including police departments and elected officials," said Andrew Karmen, a criminal expert at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York and the author of the recently reissued book, New York Murder Mystery: The True Story Behind the Crime Crash of the 1990s. "And if we don't know why crime fell so sharply throughout the country...
...experienced steep drops in crime in the '90s. But even as cities across the nation hired more cops and jailed more young men, many academics disputed the idea that strong policing was the key to controlling crime. "It is still not clear what actually brings crime down," says Andrew Karmen, professor of sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "There is a certain contribution the police make, but they are not the only thing." Other possible factors, he says, include the number of young men in the population, the availability of jobs and shifts in the drug market...
...sentenced to death by lethal injection. This should be a lesson to all hate groups, white and black. Americans want a change. If you want to hate, hate each other, and leave us alone. If you want to kill for initiation, kill each other, and leave us alone. KARMEN R. ALEXANDER Miami...
...field dominated by scare tactics, Evans held to an affirmative theme. He committed $400,000 of his own money and recruited Steve Karmen, composer of the / Love New York theme, to donate the jingle. Get High on Yourself would ask "drug-free American heroes" to talk about the pleasure, and glamour, of life on a natural high. Just as important, during the 6-hr, taping of the commercials, the "heroes" would mingle with a racial rainbow of youngsters...
...million copies of I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing in 1971, while a slightly different version-Coca Cola's I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke-was saturating the air waves free. Some tunes are adapted from classics. Some, like Steve Karmen's I Love New York, are endlessly repeatable four-note phrases. Last year New York Times Music Writer Edward Rothstein confessed that he found it easier to remember musical childishness like American Airlines' "... doing what we do best" than any Brahms piano quartet...