The New York City Police Department issued a press release last week announcing a 0.4% reduction in “index” crimes (murder, rape, robbery, burglary, felony assault, grand larceny, and car theft) for the year to date 2023 vs the same period in 2022.
That is good news as far as it goes IF you are satisfied with the 47.5% INCREASE in these same index crimes since the same period in 2019, the last year before criminal-justice reform.
It was only a matter of time
before the mayor realized that he could show progress in the fight against crime by using just the last year as a base figure.
You see, in almost every single year from 1993 to 2019, overall crime in New York City declined.
In fact, crime in the city was going down from 2015-2019 even as crime in Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, and most other major American cities were going up.
Then, in 2019, the New York State Legislature passed bail reform and other progressive criminal-justice reforms, almost all of which became effective on Jan. 1, 2020.
https://chrystal.dixiesewing.com/2023/03/05/nypd-announces-reduction-in-index-crimes-for-the-year/