Post September 11, America became patriotic again. All for one, one against evil, and so it went. In New York City, the metropolis formerly known as the crime capital of America, the homicide rate went down. Even violent felons, it seemed, were glued to their TV sets in the days and weeks following the terrorist attacks. But elsewhere in America, not even patriotic ardor could staunch the seemingly steady rise of killings.
In Boston and Phoenix, homicide rates jumped more than sixty percent. More modest increases were recorded from Atlanta to Los Angeles, San Antonio to Chicago. Alarming news. But there's more to the numbers than just cold-blooded killing.
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Jack Levin, professor and director of the Brudnick Center on Violence and Conflict, Northeastern University
Alfred Blumstein, professor of criminology, Carnegie Mellon University.
