[madison10]

Give them a trophy.

BTW, that boast cannot be true.

[Skwor]

Funny how if you refuse to charge or prosecute those committing crimes you can claim your crime rate goes down!

[mikelets456]

https://nypost.com/2022/12/31/nyc-murders-down-but-major-crimes-surge-as-2022-ends/

NYC murders down but major crimes surge as 2022 draws to a close

New Yorkers fed up with unsafe streets will be glad to see 2022 end — along with its 23% surge in major crimes.

Slayings in the city are down 13% (418 from 481) from the same time last year and the number of shooting victims (1,549 from 1,851) and shooting incidents (1,280 from 1,543) dropped 16% and 17% respectively, NYPD statistics show.

However, the Big Apple remains bloodied.

Rapes climbed 7% (1,591 from 1,481); felony assaults rose 13% (25,596 from 22,738), and robberies (17,138 from 13,592) spiked 26%, the data show.

[PGR88]

Hong Kong, a city about the size of NY City, had a total of 30 murders in 2022. less than 10% of NY City.

Seoul had 54 murders

London, also a similar size, had 109 murders - 1/3 of NYC’s

On the other hand, San Salvador, a city about half the size of NY City, had twice the murders. So that’s something to be proud of.
/s

[HighSierra5]

It would be interesting to see the crime rate under Guilianos watch.

[Gay State Conservative]

Rudy and his police commissioners did,in fact,turn NYC into a comparatively safe city. And to his credit Doomberg kept Rudy's policing policies in place. That made for a 20 year period of relative peace.

But then came Comrade Wilhelm and his lesbian wife.

The rest is (recent) history.

[hinckley buzzard]

I never heard of the “murder per hour” metric. But on the more conventional per capita metric, it’s true NYC is well down on the list of cities’ murder rates. Not to say it’s good, or getting better.