Chicago and Los Angeles have delegated responsibility for crime rates to local commanders.
第1题
A、Orlando
B、Los Angeles
C、Chicago
D、New York
第3题
A、Chicago
B、Los Angeles
C、New York
D、Boston
第4题
A、Los Angles
B、Chicago
C、New York
D、Washington
第5题
Where will the woman probably have a tour?
A.In San Francisco
B.In Los Angeles
C.In Chicago
D.Not mentioned
第6题
Still Flying High After 80 Years in Chicago
With 80 years of experience in Chicago and an extensive network in America.United can connect you quickly and comfortably to and within the us.You have a choice of four daily nonstop flights to San Francisco and Chicago.And with our other three hub cities in Denver,Los Angeles and Washington D.C.
第7题
听力原文:M: Aren't there any direct flights?
W: I'm sorry. Your best bet would be at nine a.m. departure on United flight twelve arriving in Chicago at eleven a. m., with five-hour wait for your connecting flight to Los Angeles.
Q: What time will the man leave Chicago?
(17)
A.At 9 a.m.
B.At 11 a.m.
C.At2p. m.
D.At4p. m.
第8题
How many people gathered in Chicago demanding rights for illegal immigrants?
A.350,000.
B.200,000.
C.150,000.
D.50,000.
第9题
A. Reset the computer accounts of the computers that receive the error message. Instruct the affected users to restart their computers.
B. Perform a nonauthoritative restoration of Active Directory. Force directory replication on all domain controllers.
C. Restart the Kerberos Key Distribution Center service on each domain controller.
D. Run Nltest.exe on the computers that receive the error message. Restart the Net Logon service on the domain controller on Chicago.
第10题
New model police
William Bratton, the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), likes to say that "cops count". They certainly seem to count when Mr Bratton is in charge of them. New York': crime rate withered when he ran its police force in the mid-1990s, and Los Angeles has be. come more law-abiding ever since he arrived in 2002. Burglaries are down by a fifth, murders by a third and serious assaults by more than half. The setting for innumerable hard boiled detective novels and violent television dramas is now safer than Salt Lake City in Utah
Yet Los Angeles's good fortune is not replicated everywhere. Compared to ten years ago, when crime was in remission across America, the current diagnosis is complex and worrying. Figures released this week by the FBI show that, while property crimes continue to fall, the number of violent crimes has begun to drift upwards. In some places it has soared. Oakland, in northern California, had 145 murders last year—more than half again as many as in 2005. No fewer than 406 people died in Philadelphia, putting the murder rate back where it had been in the bad old days of the early 1990s.
The most consistent and striking trend of the past few years is a benign one. America's three biggest cities are becoming safer. Robberies in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York have tumbled in the past few years, defying the national trend. Indeed, the big cities are now holding down increases in overall crime rates. Between 2000 and 2006, for example, the number of murders in America went up by 7%. Were it not for Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, all of which notched many fewer, the increase would have been 11%.
This is especially surprising given the big cities' recent woes. Thanks to a cut in starting salaries and poaching by suburban forces, New York's police department has lost more than 4,000 officers since 2000. Chicago and Los Angeles also have fewer cops than they did in the late 1990s—and the latter has more people. The LAPD labours under a court decree, imposed in 2001 following revelations of corruption and brutality, which forces it to spend precious time and money scrutinising itself.
The three police forces, though, look increasingly alike when it comes to methods of tackling crime. The new model was pioneered in New York. In the mid-1990s it began to map crimes, allocate officers accordingly (a strategy known as "putting cops on the dots") and hold local commanders accountable for crime on their turf. Since 2002 it has flooded high-crime areas with newly qualified officers. The cops' methods are sometimes crude—police stops in New York have increased five-fold in the past five years—but highly effective. Crime tends to go down by about a third in the flooded areas, which has a disproportionate impact on the overall tally.
In the past few years Chicago and Los Angeles have adopted similar methods: although, having fewer officers, they are less extravagant with them. The Los Angeles police targered just five hot spots last year. Both cities have put local commanders in charge of curting crime on their patches and, like New York, they are moving beyond putting cops on the dots. They now try to anticipate where crimes will occur based on gang intelligence. Wesley Skogan, a criminologist at Northwestern University, reckons such methods are the most likely cause of the continued drop in big-city crime. He has diligently tested most of the explanations proffered for Chicago's falling crime rate and has been able to rubbish most of them. Locking lots of people up, for example, may well have helped cut crime a decade ago, but it can't account for the trend of the past few years: the number of Chicagoans behind bars has declined since 1999. The police simply seem to be doing a better job of deterring lawlessness.
The big cities' methods may sound obvious, yet they are surprisingly rare. Many police forces are not divided into neighbour
A.police officers are paid less.
B.there is less crime for the police to deal with.
C.its officers have been recruited by other forces.
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