Crime down, hope up: Safer streets are good for everyone except Donald Trump

Making meaningful progress in the lives of New Yorkers, for the second year running, murders and shootings have gone down. And unlike 2022’s drops, 2023’s — homicides down 11% year over year, shootings down 24% — were accompanied by declines in most other types of crime. Unfortunately, there were exceptions: Assaults went up modestly, and car thefts jumped significantly. Anytime a person is shot or robbed or raped or killed, the rippling ramifications to families and neighborhoods (it’s disproportionately poorer areas where such crimes happen) are profound. We don’t often talk about the positi...