ALBANY - While Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Monday that the latest statistics show a reduction of crime in targeted high-crime areas, state and local officials met to plot how to sustain that and expand the effort.
The summit meeting of local and state police and prosecutors was planned months before last week's death of a trooper from friendly fire in the midst of a manhunt for a man who shot troopers.
But the agenda was on topic: The rise in upstate violent crime and improving communication and the sharing of technology and personnel between the state and local law enforcement under Operation Impact operating in 17 municipalities.
“We are seeing some real progress this year in terms of violent crime,” Spitzer said, cautioning that the 2007 trend might not continue.
But he said the analysis provided Monday shows 55 percent to 65 percent of crimes are committed by people who have already committed crimes - often many - in the past.
But the agenda was on topic: The rise in upstate violent crime and improving communication and the sharing of technology and personnel between the state and local law enforcement under Operation Impact operating in 17 municipalities.
“We are seeing some real progress this year in terms of violent crime,” Spitzer said, cautioning that the 2007 trend might not continue.
But he said the analysis provided Monday shows 55 percent to 65 percent of crimes are committed by people who have already committed crimes - often many - in the past.
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