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R. Dwayne Betts may be one of those not-so-bad guys, sentenced to nine years in an adult prison on a first offense at age 16. It's hard to know if a less severe punishment would have worked. Betts hijacked a stranger's car at gunpoint, which is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind America's Falling Crime Rate | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

A new survey of retired New York City police supervisors, however, confirms what many skeptics have suspected for years. Pressure from the twice-weekly CompStat reviews inspired a certain amount of fudging (exactly how much is unknown). Police hunted for bargains on eBay so that they could adjust theft reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind America's Falling Crime Rate | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

In those places, the crime problem isn't solved; the fight is scarcely begun. To the many factors that have combined to cool the nation's violent fever, more must be added - more creativity, more pragmatism, more honest concern for the victims of inner-city crime. It's a daunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What's Behind America's Falling Crime Rate | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

That is not the only difference between then and now. As President-elect, Obama extended to the outgoing Bush Administration a statesmanlike cooperation that was the exact opposite of Roosevelt's politically shrewd distancing of himself from his discredited predecessor, Herbert Hoover. Obama could have scored cheap political points by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Era of No Consensus | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

The surprise was that no political price was exacted for such a stand: abandoning assembly-line workers whose requested lifeline was a fraction of what Congress forked over to the financial joyriders who touched off the crisis. Lost in the euphoria surrounding Obama's victory, here was a change of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Era of No Consensus | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

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