De Blasio Touts Lower Crime and Better Relationships, Despite Criticism
By Jillian Jorgensen | 12/02/14 5:26pm
Mayor Bill de Blasio today touted crime statistics showing the last four months to be the safest on record since 1993, after reforms to policies like stop-and-frisk that his critics had argued would cause crime to climb.
“When you create that unity, you reach higher heights of safety and find possibilities that no one knew existed when there was a division between police and community,” Mr. de Blasio said today at a press conference in the Ingersoll Houses in Brooklyn. “After 11 months, we can say that this vision is coming to fruition. We can see with our own eyes, and we can experience in our own lives, a safer city and a city that is becoming more unified.”
After years of decline, crime in the city was down once again by 4.4 percent at the end of November, according to the NYPD–with homicides down by 6.8 percent, robbery down by 14.4 percent, and rape down from 2.9.
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