首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
The man behind this notion, Jack Maple, is a dandy who affects dark glasses, homburgs(翘边帽)and two-toe shoes; yet he has become s
The man behind this notion, Jack Maple, is a dandy who affects dark glasses, homburgs(翘边帽)and two-toe shoes; yet he has become s
admin
2011-01-02
73
问题
The man behind this notion, Jack Maple, is a dandy who affects dark glasses, homburgs(翘边帽)and two-toe shoes; yet he has become something of a legend in America’s police departments. For some years, starting in New York and moving on to high-crime spots such as New Orleans and Philadelphia, he and his business partner, John Lieder have marketed a two-tier system for cutting crime.
First, police departments have to sort themselves out: root out corruption, streamline their bureaucracy, and make more contact with the public. Second, they have to adopt a computer system called Comstat which helps them to analyze statistics of all major crimes. These are constantly keyed into the computer, which then displays where and when they have occurred on a color-coded map, enabling the police to monitor crime trends as they happen and to spot high-crime areas. In New York, Comstat’s statistical maps are analyzed each week at a meeting of the city’s police chief and precinct captains.
Messrs Maple and Linder ( "specialists in crime-reduction services" ) have no doubt that their system is a main contributor to the drop in crime. When they introduced it in New Orleans in January 1997, violent crime dropped by 22% in a year;when they merely started working informally with the police department in Newark,New Jersey,violent crime fell by 13%. Police departments are now lining up to pay as much as $50,000 a month for these two men to put them straight.
Probably all these new policies and bits of technical wizardry, added together, have made a big difference to crime. But there remain anomalies that cannot be explained, such as the fact that crime in Washington D. C. ,has fallen as fast as anywhere, although the police department has been corrupt and hopeless and, in large stretches of the city, neither police nor residents seem disposed to fight the criminals in their midst.
The more important reason for the fall in crime rates, many say, is a much less sophisticated one. It is a fact that crime rates have dropped as the imprisonment rate soared. In 1997 the national incarceration rate, at 645 per 100000 people was more than double the rate in 1985, and the number of inmates in city and county jails rose by 9.4%, almost double its annual average increase since 1990. Surely some criminologists argue, one set of figures is the cause of the other. It is precise because more people are being sent to prison, they claim that crime rates are falling. A 1993 study by the National Academy of Sciences actually concluded that the tripling of the prison population between 1975 and 1989 had lowered violent crime by 10-15%.
Yet cause and effect may not be so obviously linked. To begin with, the sale and possession of drugs are not counted by the FBI in its crime index, which is limited to violent crimes and crimes against property. Yet drug offences account for more than a third of the recent increase in the number of those jailed;since 1980, the incarceration rate for drug arrests has increased by 1000%. And although about three-quarters of those going to prison for drug offences have committed other crimes as well, there is not yet a crystal-clear connection between filling the jails with drug-pushers and a decline in the rate of violent crime. Again, though national figures are suggestive, local ones diverge: the places where crime has dropped most sharply ( such as New York City) are not always the places where incarceration has risen fastest.
In New York______.
选项
A、violent crime dropped by 23% in one year
B、police department pay as much as $ 50, 000 for Jack Maple
C、the crime rate is high
D、Comstat’s statistical maps are analyzed every week
答案
D
解析
由第二段最后—句“In New York,Comstat’s statistical maps are analyzed each week at a meeting of the city’s police chief and pre cinct captains.”可知。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/TlHd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语五级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语五级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
Withthehelpofthespace-shuttlecardedradar,archeologistsfound______.Whichofthefollowingbestsummarizesthemainin
Withthehelpofthespace-shuttlecardedradar,archeologistsfound______."They"inthesecondlineofthelastparagraphre
Withthehelpofthespace-shuttlecardedradar,archeologistsfound______.WhichofthefollowingisTRUEofthesand-buried
Accordingtothepassage,whichofthefollowingstatementsisTRUE?WhichofthefollowingisNOTmentionedinthepassageas
WhichofthefollowingisNOTrequiredofacontainer?WhydidtheauthorgotoNewYorkCity?
KobeBryantAfter10seasonswearingtheNo.8onhisback,KobeBryantwillbecomeNo.24nextseason.Thereasonforthes
TheMakingofaSuccessStory1.IKEAistheworld’slargestfurnitureretailer,andthemanbehinditisIngvarKamprad,one
FederalDepositInsuranceCorporationBefore1933,andparticularlyduringtheperiod1929—1933,bankfailureswerenotunco
Initssecondgeneration,thesmallestBMWbecomesmorefuel-efficientinitsEuropeanversion.
随机试题
某食品生产企业于2010年1月注册成立进行生产经营,2010年应纳税所得额为一100万元。2011年度生产经营情况如下:(1)销售产品取得不舍税收入20000万元。(2)产品销售成本10000万元。(3)销售税金及附加500万元。(4)销售费用40
职业道德规范是指约定俗成的或明文规定的职业道德标准。
按计算机病毒存在的方式,可以分为文件型病毒、引导型病毒和()。
与锻锤相比,热模锻曲柄压力机的特点有()。
用标准法计算操作风险监管资本时,各业务线不同的操作风险资本要求系数β代表()。
适用于复杂动态的环境,而不适用于标准化工作的组织构型为()。
旅游团离开的前一天,地陪应对交通票据时间做到“四核实”,即核实()。
各种形式的集装箱器具都可通称为托盘。()
从所给的四个选项中,选项最合适的一个填入问号处,使之呈现一定的规律性:
Longtimeago,everyoneknewthatregularbedtimeswereimportant."Dreamon!"mostmodernparentsmightreply.Butresearchby
最新回复
(
0
)