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Although mentioned in the article as something Eric Adams has said, that's not actually what the article is talking about - this is comparing subway crimes befo
by maplant 2y ago
Although mentioned in the article as something Eric Adams has said, that's not actually what the article is talking about - this is comparing subway crimes before and after congestion pricing
- amazingamazing 2y agoThere was massive deployment of police in 2024 and this is YoY, per the data crime has been on a downward trend the whole year really and even throughout 2023. Despite the news New York subways have never really been dangerous at large. Not to mention the deployment of the national Guard, more surveillance, etc.
- maplant 2y agoYes, but the article is talking about how YoY crime is down last month, while ridership has _increased significantly this month_, so the crime rater per capita is _significantly_ down.
- amazingamazing 2y agoOk. What is your point exactly, I do not disagree.
- jakelazaroff 2y agoThe point is that the decrease in crime per capita is uncorrelated with police presence.
- amazingamazing 2y agoGreat. I never said such things anyway. My original comment was a quip on Adam’s comment…
- tbrownaw 2y ago... So the population of commuters that were displaced from being car users and had to become subway users, did not bring additional criminals to the subway with them?
- llamaimperative 2y agoNot really. There was a state-funded deployment in 2022 that ran out of money and the 2024 city-funded surge replaced it. 1,200 officers per day funded by the state down to 1,000 per day funded by the city IIRC Subjectively, and it appears borne out in the data from a cursory glance, it seems things got really fucked during and right after COVID and have been getting better across the board since then. Crime also fell, for example, outside of the subway system which had no similar surges.