Analysis: Trump ally complaints aside, crime is down in Manhattan
on criminal complaints and, helpfully, includes comparisons to years past. So we can see that, of the seven most severe categories of crime included in the city’s metrics, five are down relative to this point in 2022. That’s also true of both shooting incidents and shooting victims — and of crime overall.But that’s New York City overall, not New York County, the jurisdiction in which Trump was indicted. There, in Manhattan, murder is flat but violent crime overall is down.
Only felony assault and grand larceny are up in the territory for which District Attorney Alvin Bragg is responsible. It is true that crime is up in New York relative to a few years ago or even a decade or so ago. Murders are down throughout the city, but violent crime overall is up. At times, Trump has suggested that the level of crime in New York is somehow unprecedented, which is clearly not true. Relative to 1993, violent crime of all kinds is down precipitously. That’s not much consolation for recent victims of crime, certainly, but it’s still true.Again, none of this is really about chiding Bragg for his failures as an arm of law enforcement.
In this case, though, it falls flat. If you’re worried about surging crime, then you should want to see crime go down. In Manhattan, it is.
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