State: Homicides hit low; DNA data helped
ALBANY -- The number of homicides in New York State dropped last year to the lowest level in decades to roughly 750, or less than one-third of the killings in 1990, the deadliest year on record, officials said yesterday.
Sean Byrne, the state's acting criminal justice commissioner, told a legislative committee that preliminary data show all crime, including violent crime, declined in 2011....
