By Colleen Long, Associate Press
NEW YORK – Even after two terror
attacks and a driver's deadly rampage through Times Square, New York
City is on track to smash its modern-era low for homicides in a year.
Through Dec. 17, the city of 8.5 million people, once
America's murder capital, had recorded 278 killings. That puts it on
pace to end this year with killings down 14 percent from last year, and
well below the 333 in 2014, which was the year with the fewest homicides
since the city began keeping accurate crime statistics in 1963.
Those numbers mean a person's odds of getting killed by
homicide in tightly packed, diverse New York City this year were about
the same as they were last year in Wyoming, Montana and South Dakota.
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