Crime time in the big city: Fear is a real concern, but the chances of being a victim are very small

In a new Siena College poll, a full 61% of New Yorkers said that they were worried about personally being a crime victim and half worry about safety in public spaces. The fact that they’re doing so in the safest big city in the nation by almost every conceivable metric is a failure on a lot of fronts. We can’t minimize the impact of crime on those who are harmed by it, and in a city the size of ours, every day will feature horrors that can be splashed across the headlines and seized on by opportunistic political figures, even if the likelihood that of them afflicting any one New Yorker remains...