New York’s Crime Problem Is a Self-Inflicted Wound — and a Warning for Other Cities

New York City isn’t the hellscape that some anti-progressives on the right sometimes hyperbolize. Compared to the dark days of the late 1970s, ’80s and early ’90s, New York is much safer, overall. 

But streets, subways, and parks have seen more and more disorder. And there’s no getting around the fact that, despite modest declines in shootings and homicides this year and last, the data show that people and property are both much less safe in the Big Apple than they were a few short years ago. 

This is a problem — one that was politically created, and one that should serve as a cautionary tale for our nation’s other big cities. 

Continue reading the entire piece here at The Messenger

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Rafael Mangual is the Nick Ohnell Fellow and head of research for the Policing and Public Safety Initiative at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He is also the author of Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most. William J. Bratton is a twice-former commissioner of the NYPD and author of “The Profession.”

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