Manhattan’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 […]
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CrimeAlbany’s Crime Numbers Game Through October 2024, Governor Hochul freely pushed her narrative of declining crime across New York State – conveniently excluding New York City’s numbers, which weren’t available on the state’s website. Then in early November 2024, months after they should have been released, the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services
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CorruptionThe 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
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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
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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
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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
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CrimeToday, the FBI released its updated crime data for 2023, which continues to raise questions about its accuracy. In a previous blog article, I demonstrated that from 2001 to 2022, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) consistently reported higher violent crime statistics for New York City than those provided by the NYC Police Department. This
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CrimeIntroduction In the realm of political discourse, few topics generate as much heated debate as crime rates. As we navigate through different presidential administrations, it’s crucial to examine the data objectively and understand the trends that have shaped our nation’s safety landscape. This analysis delves into the violent crime statistics spanning the Obama, Trump, and
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CrimeBetween 2001 and 2022, the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) consistently reported higher violent crime statistics for New York City compared to the figures provided by the NYC Police Department. This discrepancy can be partly attributed to the differing definitions of crime used by the FBI and the NYPD. Although New York City employs a
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CrimeEvery county in New York State, except for the five that make up New York City, has submitted data on Violent Crime by Firearm (VCBF) for 2023. The NYPD has stopped reporting violent crimes involving firearms in 2023, despite consistently reporting shooting incidents and confiscated firearms. The lack of VCBF data from NYC Mayor Eric
Why is NYC Mayor Eric Adams Withholding Data on Violent Crimes Involving Firearms? Read More »
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