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Should be easy to find out using a google search, no? Here you go:

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statist...

Total crimes, 2020: 1817, 2021: 2268

Quite a bit of an increase. 2021 is not over yet.

I'm not really trying to counter-argue your point, just clarify, but… isn't that the one-week stats? The YoY stats are 2020: 87,608 vs 2021: 90,362.

And that's WITH lockdowns and a way fewer people on the streets in 2020. Of course 2021 would be higher with vaccinations.

So on track for maybe a 4% increase. Doesn't quite look like crisis to me. Of course, breakdowns of the type of crime might be helpful. It wouldn't take much of a single type of crime (like assault related to mask/anti-mask or something of that nature to cause a jump).

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