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Is Diversity Reducing Crime?

Recent  research conducted by Richard Florida, director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto, has found that almost three years into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, crime rates are falling in American cities. The study also finds that "the growing racial, ethnic, and demographic diversity of our cities and metro areas" is leading to the downward trend. Florida's analysis found that the Latino and foreign-born share of the population is negatively associated with urban crime and that crime also fell as the percentage of the population that is non-white increased. Click here to read more.
 
 



INSIGHT Into Diversity