Over all, major crime in the city has dropped 10 percent from this time last year.

Major crimes in schools had dropped 8 percent, he said.

However, there are new houses being built and crime has dropped in recent years.

Over all, serious crime has remained stable, or even dropped since the late 1980's.

Since 1991, reported serious crime has dropped 21.3 percent in the 88th Precinct.

In the last 30 years, violent crimes against children have dropped more than 38 percent.

By 1997, thanks to armed guards, crime in the area had dropped over 50 percent.

Nationally, crime dropped 4.9 percent between 1998 and 2002, the most recent year of statistics available.

Overall, crime in Dayton dropped 40 percent over the previous year.

Since the investigation began, he said, crime has dropped by 35 percent and there have been no shootings.