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A key factor in the city’s history, but largely left out of today’s discussions of crime, arson has seen a dramatic decline in New York. But changes in investigative techniques and cuts to the city’s arson investigation unit raise questions about whether intentional fire-setting is as rare as the statistics suggest.

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