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Fewer criminally-inclined people in the first place.
NYC is much safer than other cities with similar demographics.
Every American city is dramatically safer than it was in the 1970's, even if the demographics haven't improved.
It really is possible to reduce violent and property crime by an order of magnitude relative to the demographic-driven baseline (compare crime committed by Jamaicans in Jamaica to crime committed by Jamaicans in the UK) through effective policing backed up by swift and certain punishment of criminals. Most Western European and 1st-world Asian cities do this.
I have no idea why other American cities can't get their "crime per member of a high-crime ethnic group" numbers down to NYC levels, but the problem doesn't appear to be fixable by electing Republicans or tough-on-crime Democrats at the local level.
One thing I do think is that the easiest way to reverse the recent trend in shoplifting is to clamp down on the large tech companies running online marketplaces for obviously stolen goods.
I don’t think these crime statistics really capture the picture. How often are things even reported? In NYC many quality of life offenses have blended so deeply into the noise of city life that nobody will report it because it’s not a serious crime.
If a psychotic drug zombie is screaming at me on the subway platform about wanting to stab me and how he could kill me, is that a crime? Actually yes, it’s technically an assault under NY State law. Will anybody report it? LOL
Repeat this ad nauseam and you see how crime statistics are low but there is a massive degradation in quality of life
Based on my experience as a tourist in the US, general disorder and quality of life crime is still lower in Manhattan than in the centres of most other US cities (thinking about it, I think the Vegas strip and immediate environs was nicer). Compared to a northern European or 1st-world Asian city, NYC is a bit grubby. San Francisco is filthy.
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Yes, but this was done largely by putting criminals in penal institutions.
Why not? That's how NYC did it.
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