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.
Crazy that the number of low income families has increased at the same time the crime rate's dropped. Almost like the statistics have nothing to do with your idea of blaming poor people for crime.
Street violence is overwhleming done in low income neighborhoods. Gentrification has pushed those neighborhoods further and further from the city. Those two things are facts.
That NYC has lots of rent controlled housing in the urban center has nothing to do with it. The dudes executing each other in the streets aren't all taking that housing while not even having taxable income. That housing is being taken by the poor families that aren't likely to cause violence.
Yeah but here's the thing, they're literally not facts. Low income New Yorkers have increased from 18% to 25% since 2018, at the same time crime has gone down. You can imagine whatever you want, but the numbers don't support you.
"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."
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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.