At a superficial level, the city seems to have all the ingredients of a massive crime problem: a large, downtrodden immigrant population with limited job opportunities, skyrocketing inequality, and regulatory policies (such as rent control) which strongly favour native residents. These same ingredients have caused the crime rate many other developing country megapolises (e.g. -- Nairobi, which was a very safe city only thirty years ago) to go through the roof. Yet Mumbai remains, by all accounts, a very safe city? What's the secret?
The only hypothesis I can come up with is that the police are so incredibly brutal that no one dares commit a crime. The picture authors such as Suketu Mehta and Vikram Chandra paint of the Mumbai police force is indeed truly terrifying, but this hardly seems plausible though. Strong law enforcement has done little to stop un-organized crime in many other cities.
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Actually, strong law enforcement in the form of more police and better policing (not more brutal police) was very effective in turning around the crime rate in New York. There were fewer than 500 homicides in New York in 2007, down from 2,245 in 1990 according to www.theinsider.com. Admittedly, this is still a much higher number than in Bombay both in absolute terms (239 murders in 2008) and especially on a per capita basis.
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