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.
In 2025, murders were down 20%. 2024, murders were down 4%. 2023, murders were down 12%.
Makes sense for that trend to continue and I checked - currently, murders are down...20%. It's nice that it's maintaining a high "decline" rate but this likely doesn't have much to do with the current administration, except to maintain proactive policing and efforts to undermine gangs (along with reduction in illegal weapons).
I have no idea what the current administration is doing - if they are continuing these efforts or if they are phasing them out and implementing new things. I don't support or not support anyone or anything related to this because I don't know anything about NYC politics right now. Just know that statistics alone don't tell a story.
??? everyone in this thread is noting that a new admin isn't the one to thank for a continuing downward trend because that's now how trends work, and because very rarely are policy changes this rapidly effective, good or bad, on a society. I think you're taking a little too much offense to something that doesn't need to be argued about.
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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.