Murders are up in New York
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After many years of decline, the number of murders climbed this year in New York and many other major US cities, reaching their highest levels in a decade in some places.
Among the reasons given: gangs, drugs, the easy availability of illegal guns, a disturbing tendency among young people to pull guns when they do not get the respect they demand, and, in Houston at least, an influx of Hurricane Katrina evacuees. (AP)
