Crime+and+Public+Safety

=Crime and Public Safety=
 * 1) Summarize the "Historical Perspective" of this issue. (see timeline at the bottom of pages 902 - 903 as well)
 * 2) Why did crime rates fall dramatically in the early 1990s?
 * 3) Why is gun control a controversial issue?
 * 4) What is the controversy over tougher sentences about?
 * 5) 1968 For the first time Americans called the crime biggest issue in the nation. During 1970s the crime has increased due to rising employment and inflation, drug use, civil unrest, and the protest against Vietnam War. A decade later the number of crimes has increased almost by 1/3 all due to cocaine abuse. As the years went on the crime increased too. From 1986 to early 1990's the crime and car thefts increased by nearly 20 percent.
 * 6) Soon after, during 1992 the rates began to drop and continued to do so throughout the decade. Just in 2004 FBI had announced that the rates of crimes now are a 3rd lower than in 1994. Some of the causes fir falling crime rates are: cocaine trade slowed, unemployment rates gradually deceased, but the biggest reason is because of the new policing efforts. Now police does not sit around at their offices waiting for a phone call, they are out on the streets, along the highways, in the neighborhoods etc. That helps to prevent people from any danger that could occur.
 * 7) In 1993 the Brady Act was signed by president Bill Clinton. The Brady Act allowed for states to place a five-day waiting period, police check the potential buyer's backgrounds.