The article doesn't cover how this is concentrated locally (shoving incidents in the NYC subway - to the tracks) vs. state-wide, or how the 2 databases the Fede

The article doesn't cover how this is concentrated locally (shoving incidents in the NYC subway - to the tracks) vs. state-wide, or how the 2 databases the Federal government maintains and uses, have been redefined, and with unreliable reporting by the states due to the lag in the new reporting format of the federal government, doesn't allow for a like comparison over previous datasets. I grew up in Sunset Park, Brooklyn during the late 60s, 70s, and 80s, and yes, homicides are down. I think it was around almost 3k per year for NY then, and is a factor of 10 less now. But we had things like Son of Sam, FALN bombings in NYC (49 of them in the 70s), hijackings at the NY airports (137 in the US alone in the 60s to 70s), etc...