Join the Levy Senior Center Foundation for the next lecture in the Levy Lecture Series! On Tues., Oct. 12  at 1 p.m.  Peter Moskos will present "Reducing Violence in Cities: Lessons Learned From NYC's Decline in Crime" via Zoom.

In 1990 more than 2,200 people were murdered in New York City. But then something astounding happened: over the next few years, New York City became much safer. Eventually murder and other violent crimes would decline nearly 90 percent. How did this happen? The New York City miracle wasn’t of divine origin; people--including policing--caused this change. Yet the mechanisms of the crime drop remain unknown, or at least misunderstood.