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    The murder rate in New York City spiked 20% in the first two months of 2015, prompting the NYPD to rethink its strategy to curb the deadly trend. 54 murders were recorded since January 1st, up from 45 in the same period the year before. Shootings also climbed 20% despite an overall 11% drop in most major crime categories. Most killings have been concentrated in five police precincts, and the NYPD hopes to curb the violence by increasing patrols in those areas.

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    The murder rate in New York City spiked 20% in the first two months of 2015, prompting the NYPD to rethink its strategy to curb the deadly trend. 54 murders were recorded since January 1st, up from 45 in the same period the year before. Shootings also climbed 20% despite an overall 11% drop in most major crime categories. Most killings have been concentrated in five police precincts, and the NYPD hopes to curb the violence by increasing patrols in those areas.

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    The murder rate in New York City spiked 20% in the first two months of 2015, prompting the NYPD to rethink its strategy to curb the deadly trend. 54 murders were recorded since January 1st, up from 45 in the same period the year before. Shootings also climbed 20% despite an overall 11% drop in most major crime categories. Most killings have been concentrated in five police precincts, and the NYPD hopes to curb the violence by increasing patrols in those areas.

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    The murder rate in New York City spiked 20% in the first two months of 2015, prompting the NYPD to rethink its strategy to curb the deadly trend. 54 murders were recorded since January 1st, up from 45 in the same period the year before. Shootings also climbed 20% despite an overall 11% drop in most major crime categories. Most killings have been concentrated in five police precincts, and the NYPD hopes to curb the violence by increasing patrols in those areas.

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    USB Reading Workshop – ENGLISH 7

    Name: _________________________________ Date: ______________


    Teacher: _______________________________ Group: ______________

    BEFORE READING
    A. Look up the following words in your dictionary.
    murder - rate - spike - curb - deadly - trend - grim - climb (v) - overall - burglary - robbery
    theft - despite - confidence - focus (v) - precinct - gang - wound - shoot

    B. Discuss the following questions:


    1. What are the worst problems in your city in terms of safety, health and transportation?
    ____________________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________________
    2. Have you or anybody you know ever had any awful experience about crime?
    ____________________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________________
    3. Do you live in a safe or unsafe neighborhood? Why is it safe or unsafe?
    ____________________________________________________________________________________________
    __________________________________________________________________________________________

    WHILE READING
    Read the text and write the correct forms of the verbs in parentheses in each case:
    The murder rate in New York City has ______________ (spike) an alarming 20% in the first two months of the year,
    prompting NYPD brass to ______________ (rethink) the strategy to curb the deadly trend.

    Since January 1st, 54 murders have ______________ (be) recorded in the city, up nine from the same period a year ago,
    according to the grim stats released Monday. Shootings have also ______________ (climb) 20% — with 149 so far in
    2015 compared with 126 in the first two months of 2014. But overall, crime has ______________ (drop) 11% in most
    major crime categories, including burglary, robbery, domestic violence, grand larceny and auto theft. The bump in
    killings ______________ (come) despite a 12-day span over the first two weeks of February when no murders were
    recorded. NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton ____________ (say) the rise in killings and shootings should not be taken as
    indications of “the bad old days roaring back.”

    “This is something that we’ve got our arms around, something we have every confidence we can identify motives and
    basically focus on that,” Bratton said Monday. Breaking down the deadly data, Bratton said most of the killings and
    shootings have been concentrated in five of the city’s 77 police precincts. The department hopes to curb the violence by
    beefing up patrols in the troubled precincts — which ______________ (include) the 46th Precinct in the Bronx, the
    102nd Precinct in Queens and the 67th, 63rd and 75th Precincts in Brooklyn. “At this stage of the game, this
    ______________ (be not) a precursor of the worst to come,” Bratton said. “My sense is we ______________ (have) a
    pretty good handle on it.”

    The city would record 324 murders by year’s end at this pace, which would be less than the 328 murders across the five
    boroughs in 2014, the lowest since 1963. The murder count for 2013_______________ (be) 335. At least 19 of the
    slayings this year ______________ (be) the result of robberies, burglaries, gang warfare or drug dealing. NYPD Chief of
    Detectives Robert Boyce said each of the seven drug-related murders this year ______________ (involve) marijuana
    dealers being targeted. “These ______________ (be) not turf battles. These are ripoffs of marijuana dealers,” Boyce
    said. At least eight murders were attributed to domestic violence, including that of a 3-year-old Brooklyn boy allegedly
    beaten to death last week by his belt-wielding aunt. A dozen other slayings were sparked by various disputes, while four
    were reclassified as murders after the victims ______________ (die) from wounds suffered before the start of the year.
    Motives in at least nine murders remained unknown. One killing was deemed an accident and one justified, cops said.

    The new data ______________ (send) shivers down the spine of Roger Lazo, 30, who is ______________ (raise) a 7-
    year-old daughter in the 46th Precinct in the Bronx. “These guys ______________ (shoot) at each other and they don’t
    care if they ______________ (be) near a school. Kids get hit,” Lazo said. “It makes me worry for her.” Luis Gesto, 54, a
    postal worker who also ______________ (live) in the 46th Precinct, said it’s hard not to ______________ (notice) a jump
    in shootings and murders. “You walk out of your house and see a TV news truck outside and think to yourself, ‘Another
    murder,’” Gesto said. “Everybody ______________ (have) guns around here.”
    Taken from: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/murders-20-2015-year-to-year-comparison-nypd-article-1.2134509

    AFTER READING
    A. Answer the following questions in COMPLETE sentences:
    1. How many murders have been recorded in the city since January 1st?
    __________________________________________________________________________________________
    2. How much has crime dropped in most major crime categories?
    ___________________________________________________________________________________________
    3. Who said the rise in killings and shootings should not be taken as indications of “the bad old days roaring back”?
    ___________________________________________________________________________________________
    4. Where have most of the killings and shootings been concentrated?
    __________________________________________________________________________________________
    5. What does the police hope to curb?
    ___________________________________________________________________________________________
    6. How many murders would the city record by year’s end?
    ___________________________________________________________________________________________
    7. Where does Luis Gesto live?
    ___________________________________________________________________________________________

    B. DISCUSSION: Describe a common problem related to crime in your city. Be sure to write in COMPLETE sentences.

    _______________________________________________________________________________________________

    _______________________________________________________________________________________________

    _______________________________________________________________________________________________

    _______________________________________________________________________________________________

    _______________________________________________________________________________________________

    _______________________________________________________________________________________________

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