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birdwatcherUnofficially, the final murder tally for Chicago in 2005 was 447, just below last year's four-decade low of 448.
The crime rate in Chicago dropped steadily from 1994 to 2000. But in the last few years, the decreases have slowed.
While police departments took credit for the big drops in crime in the 1990s, sociologists who study crime say other issues were at play, such as the economy and harsher drug-sentencing laws.
The steady drop during the 1990s "applied to virtually every big city in the country," said Richard Rosenfeld, a criminologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
"The good economy was so deep that it affected young men in the inner cities. With the new century, that ended," he said.
The crime rate in Chicago dropped steadily from 1994 to 2000. But in the last few years, the decreases have slowed.
While police departments took credit for the big drops in crime in the 1990s, sociologists who study crime say other issues were at play, such as the economy and harsher drug-sentencing laws.
The steady drop during the 1990s "applied to virtually every big city in the country," said Richard Rosenfeld, a criminologist at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
"The good economy was so deep that it affected young men in the inner cities. With the new century, that ended," he said.
