经济学人:美国犯罪数据激增?(3)

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Homicide rates tend to fall in September as the weather cools and teenagers head back to classrooms.
九月份，随着天气转暖，青少年重返教室，凶杀率往往会下降。

Courts have been shuttered, making it harder for prosecutors to stop gang violence.
法庭已经关闭，这使检察官更难阻止帮派暴力。

Michael LiPetri, chief of crime-control strategies at the NYPD, says the share of shootings involving gang members in his city has more than doubled since last year.
纽约警察局犯罪控制策略警监迈克尔·利佩特里表示，自去年以来，纽约涉及帮派成员的枪击案数量增加了一倍多。

And, as Jens Ludwig, director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, points out,
而且，正如芝加哥大学犯罪实验室主任詹斯·路德维希所指出的那样，

Drastically cutting police funding without adequately investing in other areas, such as social work, would be risky.
如果不对社会工作等其他领域进行充分投资，大幅削减警察经费将存在风险。

A recent working paper by Tanaya Devi and Roland Fryer, both economists at Harvard University,
哈佛大学经济学家Tanaya Devi和Roland Fryer在最近发表的一份工作报告中，

analysed the impact of state and federal investigations into police departments.
分析了州和联邦调查对警察部门的影响。

It found that, though most probes had a small positive impact in reducing crime,
报告发现，尽管大多数的州和联邦调查对减少犯罪的积极影响很小，

"viral" ones prompted by national scrutiny appear to cause the police to retreat too far.
但由国家审查引发的“病毒性”调查似乎会导致警方大幅退却。

When Freddie Gray was killed by the Baltimore police in 2015, the national media and federal investigators poured into the city.
2015年，当弗雷迪·格雷被巴尔的摩警方击毙时，全国媒体和联邦调查人员涌入该市。

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1.benefit from 从中获益

All the cells and tissues in the body benefit from the increased intake of oxygen.
体内所有的细胞与组织都从增加的氧气吸入量中受益&h7_Te]pBTgw.J,Q。

2.appear to 似乎，好像

The opposition appear to have chosen the path of cooperation rather than confrontation
反对派似乎已经选择了合作而不是对抗的路线~h#(a3_&Ib9K4。

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retreat	[ri'tri:t]	想一想再看 n. 休息寓所，撤退，隐居 v. 撤退，向后倾	联想记忆 X 单词retreat 联想记忆： re反，treat＝tract拉－拉回－撤退
scrutiny	['skru:tini]	想一想再看 n. 周密的调查，细看，监视
unlikely	[ʌn'laikli]	想一想再看 adj. 不太可能的
tend	[tend]	想一想再看 v. 趋向，易于，照料，护理
benefit	['benifit]	想一想再看 n. 利益，津贴，保险金，义卖，义演 vt.	联想记忆 X 单词benefit 联想记忆： bene好，fit做－做事后的好处
adequately	['ædikwitli]	想一想再看 adv. 足够地，充分地，适当地
director	[di'rektə, dai'rektə]	想一想再看 n. 董事，经理，主管，指导者，导演
confrontation	[.kɔnfrʌn'teiʃən]	想一想再看 n. 对审，面对面，面对
fearful	['fiəfəl]	想一想再看 adj. 担心的，可怕的
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