"Is there any big-picture data that you would look at to think about what the impact might be of this large number of recent arrivals in the city? When a New York Daily News reporter asked me about this recently, I gave her what I thought was a good formula: Why don’t you take police precincts that have shelters in them and just look at that sample. Is crime up? Is crime down? That report in the New York Daily News ended up finding that, in the places they looked at where shelters are located, crime is down this year compared to the same time last year in most categories. Yeah, most people will tell you that illegal immigrants are better than US citizens when it comes to crime. They’re afraid of getting deported."
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Christopher Herrmann as interviewed by Catherine E. Shoichet, “I asked criminologists about immigration and crime in the US. Their answers may surprise you”, CNN, (February 27, 2024)
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