Chicago attributes murder-rate decline to new policing methods / Winston-Salem Journal, 2 Jan 2004

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"Chicago, which had the unwanted distinction of having more homicides than any other city in the nation a year ago, seems in a single year to have undergone a remarkable turnaround, with killings in 2004 at their lowest tally since 1965."