Mexico City, by contrast, has enjoyed a falling crime rate and the introduction of a number of successful social programs.

FORBES: Connect

Seemingly satisfied with an improving economy, better schools and a falling crime rate, voters gave Mr Bloomberg a 20-point lead over the Democrat, Fernando Ferrer.

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The city has contended that the statistics were in line with the percentages of those people suspected of offenses, and that the policy has been an important factor in the city's falling crime rate.

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One piece of evidence supporting this is the falling rate of violent crime in states permitting honest citizens to carry concealed handguns.

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Consumers worry about their jobs, their pensions, their government's incompetence, public debts, private debts, rising crime, a falling birth rate, their children's education and their parents' health care.

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Food prices (and apparently the crime rate) were falling.

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In reality, America's incarceration rate increased nearly ten fold between 1973 and 2000 at a time when, according to the Census Bureau's National Crime Victimisation Survey, the crime rate was relatively flat or falling.

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Vandalism in the UK is falling at a quicker rate than almost any other type of crime, according to official figures.

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