New York City faces its worst violent crime rate in over two decades, with 48,098 violent crimes reported in 2024 – levels not seen since 2002. Yet on January 6, 2025, NYPD Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch presented a different story, touting “a nearly 3% reduction in overall index crime” and claiming 3,662 fewer incidents meant “thousands of fewer victims of […]
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Corruption, CrimeOn Christmas Eve 1990, life’s precarious nature revealed itself to me in ways I never expected. As the former CFO of Crazy Eddie who had recently agreed to cooperate with federal authorities, I was already living through a period of profound change. Yet nothing could have prepared me for how events would unfold that evening at my brother’s furniture store
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Crime, MemoirsHow NYC’s Crime Statistics Lost All Meaning in 2023 In 2023, New York City’s crime reporting system experienced an unprecedented breakdown that undermined two decades of statistical reliability. When the state finally released its delayed 2023 crime statistics in November 2024, the numbers revealed more than mathematical discrepancies – they exposed a systematic manipulation of public safety data by officials
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CrimeDA Bragg’s Social Media Victory Lap Accidentally Exposes Higher Murder Count In what might be the most spectacular self-own in recent criminal justice history, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s attempt to showcase his crime-fighting success has instead exposed an alarming truth: murders in Manhattan have INCREASED during 2024, not decreased as the NYPD claims. Here’s the bombshell: When NYPD CompStat reports
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CrimeManhattan’s Descent: The Human Cost of Failed Reform As winter approaches in 2024, Manhattan’s streets tell a story of profound failure. In the gathering darkness of November evenings, grandmothers hurry home earlier, students travel in groups, and store owners eye each passing shadow with growing unease. This isn’t the safer city that District Attorney Alvin Bragg promised when he declared
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CrimeThe trend of violent crime victimization in New York City up to September 2024 highlights persistent racial disparities and troubling trends. During this nine-month period, violent crime victimization increased by 5.4% in 2024 compared to the same timeframe in 2023. This rise has disproportionately impacted different communities, with minority groups experiencing the majority of the increase in violent crimes. Disproportionate
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CrimeSetting the Stage: A Tale of Fiscal Smoke and Mirrors Welcome to New York City’s fiscal funhouse, where transparency vanishes, and accountability takes an indefinite vacation. We’re exposing creative accounting practices of Comptroller Brad Lander and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, whose offices have elevated questionable bookkeeping to high art. Prepare for murky expense reports where “N/A Privacy/Security” explains everything, credit
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Corruption, CrimeIntroduction In a recent blog post, I explored the FBI’s underreporting of violent crime in New York City for 2023, raising concerns about the reliability of its national crime statistics. John Lott, writing for the New York Post, revealed that the FBI quietly revised its national violent crime rates for 2021 and 2022 in its 2023 report. This revision shows
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CrimeIn the recent vice presidential debate, Tim Walz made a troublingly disingenuous claim about gun violence research, stating, “And we can start to get data, but here’s the problem, if we really want to solve this, we’ve got folks that won’t allow research to even be done on gun violence.” (57:49 into debate video) Walz’s statement isn’t true and seems
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CrimeIntroduction This essay examines crime victimization rates among different racial and ethnic groups in the United States from 2009 to 2023, spanning the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations. The data is sourced from the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and presents rates of violent victimizations per 1,000 people aged 12 or older. The analysis includes
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