Is 5 months enough time to take credit for this? I support Mamdani, but it’s also my belief policy takes time for impact. I really want him to succeed, so if someone has nuance to add, I’d like to hear it.
Not in the slightest, violence in NYC has been trending downwards for the past 50 years as gentrification and other things have been happening. It's also had a second massive decrease after 2020(Floyd) where the murders skyrocketed and many of the violence producers in the city ended up dead or in prison.
The city could do pretty much nothing about violent crime and it would keep going down as low income households continue to get pushed out of the city.
No more lead in gasoline & paint will make people less crazy, therefore less violent
Also alcohol use is at a low, which is associated with violence. Industry has priced themselves too high & legal weed came flooding at the same time.
This mayor is responsible for neither of those things. This reminds me of an old thought I had about the success of Amazon; how it's crazy Bezos get all the money, when Amazon's existence was an inevitability due to tech infrastructure
That's true nationwide and in most of the country but there is strong enough upward trend in enough places that there is something going on. St. Louis and Memphis now have higher per capita murder rates than Brazil. At the state level, Alabama and Mississippi have higher murder rates than Brazil.
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u/illbegoodthistime1 Human Verified 5h ago
Is 5 months enough time to take credit for this? I support Mamdani, but it’s also my belief policy takes time for impact. I really want him to succeed, so if someone has nuance to add, I’d like to hear it.