>If people's jobs and careers depend on there being less violent crime based on certain measurements, you better believe those measurements are going down one way or another. But this city is more dangerous than it was in 2019.

But...the thing is, and I say this as someone that's particularly close to the NYPD, the numbers are not working for them internally.

They are staffed at a level for a city that no longer exists. It's a city that had around 900 thousand violent crime incidents a year..e.g. the early 80's. That simply does not exist anymore and the hiring spree that they went on during the Dinkins administration is now over 30 years in the rearview. This means that many of the officer lines that were created and filled at the time are now nearing, at or beyond their 30 and they can ride off into the sunset with a fat pension.

Every last one of those guys and gals that retires is another round were the NYPD has to justify their staffing levels to the City and the State. That's a hard sell if the numbers aren't there to justify it.

And they are not.

They literally are not. I'm not kidding when I said above that we are literally not being bad enough to each other anymore. Because we are not.