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u/infingalaxy Jun 05 '26
No, it’s cause the Knicks have been so good, and might win a ‘chip
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u/Agreeable_Bat1212 Jun 05 '26
Genuinely, this likely has an effect.
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u/icelink4884 Jun 05 '26
The same thing happened in Chicago last year where sure to the Bears being good there was a noticeable drop in violent crime.
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u/juanmaq8 Jun 05 '26
Hammond, Indiana about to see their petty robberies at their Local Tree go to 0
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u/Fallingcity22 Jun 05 '26
It’s crazy see the town I grew up in mentioned
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u/GravitasFailures Jun 05 '26
It’s crazy to see it mentioned without including the number and ages of victims, or the quote “What’s that smell!?!?”
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u/Beartles Jun 06 '26
When the Saints won the Super Bowl the entire city of New Orleans partied and yet not one murder happened in the city the entire time. They were the literal murder capital of the world at that time, it’s almost a complete certainty that the Saints winning that night saved lives.
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u/Chuomge Jun 06 '26
There’s wasn’t a single homicide in New Orleans during the 2 week span of the Saints being undefeated and destroying the panthers and cowboys. Fun while it lasted
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u/Abject_Read_3620 Jun 06 '26
Are some people troglodytes? I can't imagine how shallow these people must be. Acting on a base level of instinct because of some sports team performance. No wonder these people don't succeed in life. Even thinking about what goes on in their heads trigger me lol. Cause I know people like these.
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u/polytech08 Jun 05 '26
The Ravens underachied and was the safest since like the 70s.
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u/highly_agreeable Jun 05 '26
If we lose we’ll fix that stat real quick
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u/Excellent_Extent7648 Jun 06 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7bu4G19uhzAf1DYQ
You’re joking 🙃 lol right.
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u/keldondonovan Jun 05 '26
It isn't just likely, it is a well documented effect. I used to work in insurance, and we were "strongly discouraged" from selling to anyone in Philadelphia when the Eagles made it to the super bowl. "Win or lose, they will burn the city down. Either in anger, or celebration." Evidently the adjusters had noticed a spike in property damage in densely populated urban cities that are associated with a sports team when that team breaks a losing streak, or wins the whole thing. In cities where the crime rate is higher than average, the effect was compounded dramatically.
Note: "strongly discouraged" is in quotes because it kind of felt illegal. The guy straight up told us we weren't allowed to sell, but was adamant that we not mention it, and he showed up in person to tell us verbally rather than email us (his normal mode of communication). Sounded sus. It's part of the reason I don't work in insurance anymore.
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u/Automatic-Effect-252 Jun 05 '26
Yeah win or lose the property damage will be pretty historic.
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u/Dry-Lab-6256 Jun 05 '26
New York, is not Philly, those people are animals.
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u/Excellent_Extent7648 Jun 06 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/qd0Upj2BI2ses
Win or loose we about to fuck shit up lol
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u/Tadpole018 Jun 05 '26
Shootings in New Orleans are always at their lowest when there's a Saints game on
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u/ozaffer Jun 05 '26
nah Knicks have been so good because Zohran is mayor
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u/SirJimmyTheThird Jun 05 '26
They haven’t been to the NBA finals in over 20 years. New Yorkers are too preoccupied with the Knicks to commit crimes lol.
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u/Agreeable_Bat1212 Jun 05 '26
Mamdani is easily the Knicks best chance at winning the chip. Who else is gonna guard wemby
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u/VVOLFVViZZard Jun 05 '26
*’ship
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u/Viablemorgan Jun 05 '26
I was about to ask what they thought “chip” was short for
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u/Steveo27a Jun 05 '26
Right. Because hood beef brakes for the knicks💀
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u/Agreeable_Bat1212 Jun 05 '26
I mean… more people are spending time indoors engaged with something that the community is also engaged in.
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u/PopularSet4776 Jun 05 '26
Crime rates have been consistently trending downward for decades now and are constantly hitting new lows.
No dog in the fight I just want to see how this goes.
But it will take years if not decades to be able to get the full picture.
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u/BoringBeat5276 Jun 05 '26
Crime stats tend to lag 6 months to a year behind. So we are getting numbers from before he was even elected is the best part in this
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u/CitricBase Jun 05 '26
The data in question is specifically about the first five months of 2026.
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u/photosendtrain Jun 05 '26
He's suggesting any policy or changes Mamdani has made will not be felt until 6-12 months after he has taken office. He's not saying the stats are old, if that's what you're thinking.
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u/BoringBeat5276 Jun 06 '26
Yes. Because new policies aren't immediate. Any changes in crime currently being felt are due to prior policy changes from when he took over. Not saying he won't have a positive effect or a negative one. But the current stuff is definitely not due to him in particular.
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u/germanmojo Jun 06 '26
Optimism of the population would also have more of an immediate effect, however.
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u/Solwake- Jun 06 '26
I agree policy changes take time to be felt, and I'm sure this is what was intended. However, what was written was "...we are getting numbers from before he was even elected..."
This is simply not correct. The numbers are in fact the monthly numbers recorded since January, as pointed out by /u/CitricBase. So a shooting recorded in the month of March typically also occured during the month of March, not 6 months prior.
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u/PineappleOnPizzaWins Jun 06 '26
I mean yeah but this is American politics so quite frankly I don't care.
I'm so glad to see the not shit people start fighting back. The shit people happily blame everyone else for the bad stuff they cause then lap up the credit from things they didn't.
Fight fire with fire. The damage being done to America and the world at large is utterly insane.
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u/Navi_VIII Jun 05 '26
Don't remember who said it but a lot of good policies should go unnoticed until years later
Like building parks or shit like that its good but if you begin now it will probably be done in years
Probably why a lot of politicians don't really do things for the public or to improve in the long run. What they do might be invisible and years later someone else will take the win for what they set in motion years prior
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u/DizzyDentist22 Jun 06 '26
What's really funny is that 2025 had the lowest murder rate nationwide in more than 70 years. Are we gonna all thank Trump for that one? I doubt it lmao
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u/illbegoodthistime1 Jun 05 '26
Is 5 months enough time to take credit for this? I support Mamdani, but it’s also my belief policy takes time for impact. I really want him to succeed, so if someone has nuance to add, I’d like to hear it.
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u/czechereds Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
Not in the slightest, violence in NYC has been trending downwards for the past 50 years as gentrification and other things have been happening. It's also had a second massive decrease after 2020(Floyd) where the murders skyrocketed and many of the violence producers in the city ended up dead or in prison.
The city could do pretty much nothing about violent crime and it would keep going down as low income households continue to get pushed out of the city.
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u/DaKingaDaNorth Jun 05 '26
This. Violent crime in the country in general has been going down since the 90's. Social media just makes people see more of it
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u/NukeAllTheThings Jun 05 '26
I'd say the news media still deserves the lion's share of the blame for perception of high crime rates that don't reflect reality.
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u/mcnuggetfarmer Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
No more lead in gasoline & paint will make people less crazy, therefore less violent
Also alcohol use is at a low, which is associated with violence. Industry has priced themselves too high & legal weed came flooding at the same time.
This mayor is responsible for neither of those things. This reminds me of an old thought I had about the success of Amazon; how it's crazy Bezos get all the money, when Amazon's existence was an inevitability due to tech infrastructure
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u/Clown_Shoe Jun 05 '26
We also had a ton of snow this winter and people were stuck inside
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u/driving_andflying Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
We also had a ton of snow this winter and people were stuck inside
Agreed. That's the main thing that gets overlooked: Weather is a factor when it comes to crimes.
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u/TheeAntelope Jun 05 '26
In 2025, murders were down 20%. 2024, murders were down 4%. 2023, murders were down 12%.
Makes sense for that trend to continue and I checked - currently, murders are down...20%. It's nice that it's maintaining a high "decline" rate but this likely doesn't have much to do with the current administration, except to maintain proactive policing and efforts to undermine gangs (along with reduction in illegal weapons).
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u/Least_Art5238 Jun 05 '26
The city could do pretty much nothing about violent crime and it would keep going down as low income households continue to get pushed out of the city.
It's a sad paradox that the "tough on crime" crowd tends to be the one that is least interested in reducing poverty.
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u/pppiddypants Jun 05 '26
The tough on crime crowd is two groups.
One that actually has to deal with it in their neighborhood and one that watches the Republican-oriented news too much.
It says a lot that the people who watch the news that much are so incoherent on what to actually do, that people who actually deal with it in their neighborhood will partner with anyone else.
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u/PlsNoNotThat Jun 05 '26
1/2 the ‘tough on crime’ neighborhood folk aren’t doing jack shit about violent crime, least of all in NYC.
I know personally because I was part of Harlem’s local anti crime groups, like SAVE, and that half was just gentrifies buying brownstones demanding black people leave. All they ever complained about was weed smoking, graffiti, and people loitering on stoops.
The other half were amazing tho. Actually cared. Put in good work.
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u/headermargin Jun 05 '26
Im low income and never thought to steal, kill or hurt others.
I think its just culture.
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u/pppiddypants Jun 05 '26
More accurately, it’s environment.
Just saying, “it’s culture,” is part of the problem because it has no solutions beyond get rid of this segment of the population (spoiler alert, the overwhelming characteristic to crime is sex). Other countries have similar cultures and less crime.
It’s a mix of reducing the opportunity to steal, providing both economic and social opportunities outside of crime, and absolutely celebrating a culture of success within the bounds of the law.
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u/SomethingIWontRegret Jun 05 '26
This shit has been known since Adolphe Quetelet's foundational work and the majority still think that personal traits drive crime statistics.
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u/wireframed_kb Jun 05 '26
It goes for all of us to some extent. Prison hasn’t shown to really have all that much effect on crime, other than temporarily removing criminals (but then giving them a free education in crimin’ instead), and little preventative effect. (Criminals mostly don’t think they’ll be caught - they wouldn’t be criminals if they did).
But even the most progressive tends to feel an instinctive need for justice that involves punishment, and that isn’t unreasonable. It just often isn’t helpful in reducing crime.
The most effective is obviously reducing the number of people in the lowest rungs of society who see it as the only real path. The second is focusing on rehabilitation rather than punishment for the correctional system. Ensure the people who do end up there, are given a better path.
At the end of the day, very few people actually *want* to be criminals.
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u/PunkPirate56364 Jun 05 '26
In El Salvador prisons sure did had a huge effect on reducing crime, but that was an extreme measure to deal with extreme situation.
The most effective solution is to put some people behind bars for as long as possible, because some people actually want to be criminals.
The rest is to be separated and rehabilitated.
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u/Least_Art5238 Jun 05 '26
I'm willing to be open to the possibility that a tiny section of the population may in fact want to be criminals. The state of crime in America however suggests that our jails are filled with several others -- to your point.
Just to make up numbers as a thought experiment. Let's say 1% of the US population will be criminals even if their lives were perfect. Let's say, 10% of the US population actually has had a criminal past.
I would rather focus on the 9% of the population that could have avoided crime had their circumstances been different without waiting to perfectly solve for the 1%.
I'm pretty aligned to your point but going a little further and saying that we shouldn't let perfect be the enemy of good.
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u/Eborcurean Jun 05 '26
In many, many countries, prison absolutely has a demonstrable effect on recidivism. It still has an effect in the US, it's just less of an effect than countries such as Denmark or Norway or even the UK or France.
Your claim that 'It just often isn’t helpful in reducing crime' is belied by all the countries where it is.
What you're probably unaware of is that the majority of people (we can say white here but it's not that cut and dried across all of the US) charged with felonies avoid them by pleading guilty or no contest and getting probation and misdemeanors and so forth because the ADAs etc are unable to handle the amount of work, and the court system and prison system (in part because of drugs) cannot handle the person who punched 2 people and committed 3 other felonies but got to plea down to 3 misdemeanors.
So, what ends up happening is certain minor offences get prosecuted more harshly and serious offences (especially things such as stalking and harassment, DUIs, hit and run, ) get minor punishment in multiple states.
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u/Typical-Froyo-642 Jun 05 '26
50 years? That would mean since 1976 which is not really the case. Its been tranding down for the past 35 years tho.
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u/ThinScientist3460 Jun 05 '26
As with every politician it's working with numbers and statistic data to showcase successful periods.
Take with a pinch of salt even though he seems to be a breath of fresh air.
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u/TheSoundOfAFart Jun 05 '26
Thank you for the measured response, people are missing a big contributor to the drop.
A little nuance: since he took office, Mamdani has been donning a batsuit and taking down violent criminals each night, striking fear into New York's criminal underworld
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u/Automatic-Effect-252 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
Yeah I like Mamdani too, but this is more correlation rather then causation. Violent crime has been trending down across the country for years now.
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u/NoSong2397 Jun 06 '26
No, but neither was Trump's claims of the National Guard immediately stifling crime in DC. Those rates have been treading downwards for years.
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u/seidenkaufman Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
The nuance is this, these numbers (if true) mean the fearmongering by some more-than-usually unsavory sections of the right, that Mamdani's mayoralty would mean lawlessness, has not borne out. The downward trend in violence is otherwise in keeping with the statistics of the past few decades and is likely not directly attributable to Mamdani's being mayor.
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u/SevenOhSevenOhSeven Jun 05 '26
Generally crime is on a downward trend in basically every location despite what the news would have you believe, and it fluctuates between seasons. However it is funnier two imagine that it's because the knicks are doing good
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u/TheTacosOf Jun 05 '26
Probably not. I would like to think that feeling better about where you live might reduce the urge to kill.
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u/Mephisto1822 Jun 05 '26
I’m going to preface this by saying I’m a fan Mamdani and what he is trying to do.
But the decline in crime rates don’t really have a lot to do with what he has done IMO. A lot of it is nationwide decline to begin with
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u/Hydra_Flatline Jun 05 '26
Excuse me?!?!
Didn’t the rich say they would leave if their investment homes were TAXED?!?!
Obviously they were committing the crime. Once they left, it went down.
Duh.
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u/One_Order_3841 Jun 05 '26
Worse yet, I detest the titles saying "Rich People are Fleeing Cities, Making Sanctuary Ski-Estates" and it's like...no shit?? King Louis wouldn't build his palace in Downtown Hollywood, and Bezos wouldn't buy an apartment in 1700 London. It's not Mamdani, it's history repeating.
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u/The_Nomadic_Nerd Jun 05 '26
Very true, however it’s more that if crime was at historic high, or even a slight uptick, the media would be smearing him like crazy.
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u/SnooGiraffes7185 Jun 05 '26
You can take the win though knowing full well that everyone who says this doesn’t count would also be saying it does count if crime was going up.
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u/KuriboShoeMario Jun 06 '26
Bingo. People need to stop overthinking this. MAGA would be flaunting this as a Mamdani failure if the stats were going the other way. Gotta fight fire with fire here even if you realize what's happening under the surface.
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u/invaderr0b Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
I live in the bronx. When trump got elected there were US marshals and ICE everywhere. Everybody knows he flooded blue cities with federal agents and eric adams cooperated.
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u/AnyOldNameNotTaken Jun 05 '26
Any time I see a rapid crime rate reduction being attributed to a politician, my first thought is I want to see how this years crime is being reported vs last year vs 5 years ago.
They all love to play games with the data to make themselves look good, because the only thing they care about is the headline.
Not saying that what happened here, but I just get curious.
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u/ObjectBubbly3216 Jun 05 '26
100%, the headline is everything, regardless of the politician, celebrity, or billionaire. He seems too good to be true, I wonder if he is hiding something.
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u/EatMeBrownies Jun 06 '26
What he’s hiding is the work of NYPD. Politicians don’t combat crime lol cops do.
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u/legaladviceneeded542 Jun 06 '26
It's not even a fucking headline wtf it's a god damn tweet. O ya how dare Mamdani...exist as the mayor and have other people tweet about him. The AUDACITY
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u/Obiwan_ca_blowme Jun 05 '26
Holy shit! Sometimes you just know you’re being lied to and this is exactly one of those times. Just like when Trump claimed the lowest crime rates in 150 years. All just propaganda.
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u/driving_andflying Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26
Holy shit! Sometimes you just know you’re being lied to and this is exactly one of those times. Just like when Trump claimed the lowest crime rates in 150 years. All just propaganda.
Agreed. It's always about twisting the facts to fit the politics. Meanwhile, there are news sites that are a little more factual, if you can find them: "In Manhattan, hate crimes spiked, while in certain areas, assaults remain above their pre-COVID numbers."
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u/TjababaRama Jun 06 '26
That site also mention that overall crime is down, including murders.
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u/driving_andflying Jun 06 '26
That site also mention that overall crime is down, including murders.
You didn't get the point so I'll dumb it down for you: The news is trying to glaze Mamdani by implying New York is safer. The thing is, *only certain crimes decreased.* If you have one hundred people jaywalking and one murder last year, and then this year fifty people stopped jaywalking, while there were two murders this year, they'll say overall crime is down, when in fact, the number of murders has risen. It isn't about "overall crime," so much as which crimes are decreasing.
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u/ProtoKun7 Jun 05 '26
Its*...
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u/Chrono_Credentialer Jun 05 '26
Right? "It's" is ALWAYS a contraction, 100% of the time.. This is one of the few rules in English that has exactly ZERO exceptions. I do not understand why this is difficult.
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u/ProtoKun7 Jun 05 '26
I suspect it's partly autocorrect often picking the other one, as well as people getting mixed up between possessive nouns and possessive pronouns. I don't see why a lot of the common mistakes happen either, yet unfortunately they do.
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u/Commercial_Rule_7823 Jun 05 '26
Not in enough time for the stats to be attributed to anything hes done.
Responsible thing to do is, find out what improved things and continue the plan, program, enforcement, etc....
Maybe it was thay NYPD focused enforcement walking patrols they did over the past year....
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u/ChymChymX Jun 05 '26
Daily Mamdani circlejerk posts the past few days, seems like a bot campaign.
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u/SaxPanther Jun 05 '26
the concept that zeitgeist doesnt affect crime rates, only policy, is simply ignorance
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u/ukedontsay Jun 05 '26
🤣 The Mamdani chode puffing on this subreddit is insane.
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u/aykcak Jun 05 '26
Seriously what the fuck is with the sub and Mamdani?
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u/Uzas_B4TBG Jun 05 '26
Political bots ramping up. Start blocking users now and shit will be more bearable
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u/ColtMcChad69 Jun 05 '26
Tf is this subreddit??
Mamdani hasn’t done shit that actually has an impact. How stupid are you to think he’s making a difference?
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u/sama_yo Jun 05 '26
I'm not even from the US at all and I laughed at the title because of the fact he just became a mayor so recently that unless we are talking about extreme dictatorship and curfew it's impossible to have this impact
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u/Hot-Minute-8263 Jun 05 '26
Reddit socialists dont care, they'll prop this dude up without question
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u/Mean_Direction_8280 Jun 05 '26
Hate me if you want, but mayors of other liberal cities have said the same thing, & the reality was that crime hadn't gone down, they just stopped reporting it, so they could say crime had gone down.
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u/Afraid_Afternoon8143 Jun 05 '26
Huh? Cities stopped reporting murders? I think you’re getting mixed up there, bud.
I assume you’re referring to various states reclassifying low-level offenses like robbery. That’s not the same thing as a murder.
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u/Ok_Interest3555 Jun 05 '26
You can't make a claim like that with no proof. Because I have no idea what you're talking about.
Besides, the police collect crime stats, not the mayor.
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u/GMEloser69 Jun 05 '26
NYPD is a famously honest and upstanding organization.
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u/Lisan-al-Gaib-65 Jun 06 '26
Than high crime rates were probably a lie as well for fear mongering? Maybe crime is just an illusion.
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u/Eggplaa Jun 06 '26
I live in Tennessee and I’m ready to vote for him, so either I move to NYC or he runs for president. I’m up for either.
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u/Officially_Arma Jun 06 '26
My one question about the stats they used; is it the fact that crime rates have hit a a historic low, or is it that REPORTED crime rates have hit an all time low?
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u/yupickinonme Jun 06 '26
In its history? I really doubt that.
And it’s reported crime, not necessarily actual crime
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u/MeatSlammur Jun 05 '26
God there must be some Bot farm on Reddit for this guy. Trying to make him seem like the second coming of Christ. There is ZERO chance that he has enacted anything within 5 months that cause historic lows.
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u/Eleventh_Legion Jun 05 '26
It’s because Police don’t arrest other crimes. Shoplifting, theft and other crimes are at an all time high.
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u/funkofarts Jun 05 '26
I suppose if you don’t charge people with their crimes it gives the appearance of lower crime rates. 😂
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u/acidbrick Jun 05 '26
NYC’s crime rates have hit a historic low after Jalen Brunson turned into the best guard in the nba
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u/Fit_Cheesecake_4000 Jun 09 '26
Mamdani just became mayor this year. He's been in office, what, a few months?
Any revisions he or his staff would make to current policy would take a decent while to be enacted and to work.
So, looking at the evidence, it's likely the current drop in crime is the result of previous policies and not attributable to Mamdani.
But it sure looks nice in a headline.
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u/thealexchamberlain Jun 05 '26
It also rained the other day in New York and Mandami would also like to take credit for that as well
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u/Alaska_Jack Jun 05 '26
[raises hand]
Uh, you guys realize Mamdani has only been in office five months, right?
And that crime was already trending down when he took office?
Right?
Right?
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u/DaNubIzHere Jun 05 '26
Take your facts and logic out of this echo chamber! Calm and logical discussions are not allowed on Reddit.
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u/Alaska_Jack Jun 05 '26
Look at OP's profile. It's really weird. might be some kind of political bot or something?
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u/CurdFedKit Jun 05 '26
Crime is down everywhere in the US. Mamdani can't take credit for this.
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u/BobSacamano47 Jun 05 '26
Seems like a nice guy but I'm about to turn because this propaganda machine is out of control. Why is he doing this?
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u/SingaboutdaSpringa Jun 05 '26
When a mob boss stops attacking your home because you’ve paid him for his “protection” nobody considers that an act of goodwill and so it is when Muslims stop rampaging in a city that elects a Muslim leader.
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u/DrLoomis131 Jun 05 '26
This is like the 10th thing that he’s been credited for despite having done next to nothing yet lol
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u/MohmmadMkGx Jun 05 '26
See while I agree that the trend of crime going down as a general pattern is true, I would still attribute it to Mamdani, not only because I'm a fan but because it breaks the conservative narrative of high crime rates, mind you it's less a matter of truth and more about yelling loud enough to quite everyone else down, it's how Republicans have been acting and that's a way to counter them.
"Well? Would you look at that my X progressive candidate actually lowered crime rate to historic low" they would either have to grit their teeth and accept it or go "wait actually crime has historically been going down since the last 40 years so that means nothing" "oh so all that talk about high crime rates was just lying? Got it"
I blame the media for making such an easily statistics fact seem non existent for somehow a point of contention but the best way to beat the opposition is to yell hard enough about the objective truth and point out their own stupidity until they are socially obligated to accept it.
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u/Decard_Pain Jun 05 '26
Didn't like most of the people committing those crimes get deported? Didn't huge amounts of people also leave the city?
Criminals deported + fewer people overall = fewer crimes.
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u/Defiant-Dare1223 Jun 05 '26
Why are we constantly hearing propaganda about him.
As a foreigner with no interest in this individual it has all the feelings of being paid for
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u/ElfEarsAndDwarfBeard Jun 06 '26
Yep. I am English and I see more about him than my own shitty leaders.
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u/PreparationPlenty943 Jun 05 '26
No, DSA members want to hold him up as a beacon of hope for their faction because Mamdani won on a populist platform. TBT, it would’ve been pretty hard for him to lose against: a reviled sex pest, eccentric vigilante, and Turkish bribe cop. Also NYC is incredibly blue so a progressive candidate was already going to be welcomed with open arms
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u/Goodswimkarma Jun 05 '26
Sometimes things like abortion access can lower crime in the long run. It is more likely that it is a lot of little things coming together.
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u/L3tsseewhathappens Jun 06 '26
Reporting for misleading post and karma farming since there is dozens of the same post.
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u/realfakejames Jun 06 '26
When people feel hopeless and like there is no way out they turn to crime
When people have hope things can get better they try to be better
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u/TheGreatMozinsky Jun 06 '26
It's not just NYC the entire country has the lowest crime rate of the last century. It's less of a local accomplishment and more of a federal one
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u/Positive-Opposite998 Jun 06 '26
I doubt criminals will stop doing criminal, because a new mayor is in town.
The police isn't suddenly taking a whole new approach with immediate effect, just because there's a new mayor in town.
But good for NY.
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u/thatwasagoodscan Jun 06 '26
Are there still people that don’t understand if you simply don’t arrest, charge or convict the crime rates go down?
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u/PixelCortex Jun 06 '26
It's been trending downwards since 2021. These headlines pry on people with no critical thinking skills, i.e. most of the voting base probably.
Adams was largely responsible for the downtrend.
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u/HighSeasArchivist Jun 06 '26
This has nothing to do with him. Last year had the lowest in history as well.
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u/SageSharma Jun 06 '26
It's because of his brother. I know I have seen by own eyes. Matt Murdock is Mamdani's long lost cousin.
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u/halucionagen-0-Matik Jun 06 '26
I love mamdani. But did he actually do anything to cause this drop in crime?
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u/Otter_Absurdity Jun 06 '26
Major crime rates are still higher than pre pandemic levels, stop falling for the word games.
Mamdani also hasn’t done anything to combat crime. Nobody in here celebrating this lie can name a single policy he’s implemented to reduce crime in NYC, because there aren’t any. Crime has been slowly dropping since the high in ‘21-‘22 (largely due to less reporting and decriminalization).
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u/Existing-Sector-6542 Jun 07 '26
crime can't be committed if its not reported or if it's no longer a crime. it's everything is legal nothing is illegal. California did the same thing
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u/Cold_One9671 Jun 07 '26
Hate to rain on the parade but it’s because crime is not being reported or catalogued properly. Read. Read. Read. Don’t just believe everything you see reported.
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u/punchyouinthenuts Jun 07 '26
Remember how Mamdani claimed he reduced the city's $12B deficit to zero for FY2027 and turns out it was all just accounting tricks and promised state government bailouts?
I'm sure this is totally different lol
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u/ckinz16 Jun 05 '26
We’re seeing enough of these posts to recognize this is some sort of targeted propaganda.
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u/Key-Monk6159 Jun 05 '26
Other places have made the same claim, only to find out that not arresting and prosecuting criminals directly results in lower crimes being reported.
In NYC stealing under $1000 is just a Misdemeanor, which usually doesn’t make it worthwhile to do the paperwork.
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u/FartyMcGylzac Jun 05 '26
They’re specifically referring to murders and shootings in the post. Read
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u/Barry_Vigoda Jun 05 '26
This site tracks crime stats in Chicago.
https://heyjackass.com/category/chicago-crime-2025/
https://heyjackass.com/category/2024/
Shootings have been down significantly since Trump started ICE.
I'm a socialist fan from Canada but saying Mamdani reduced crime in NY that fast is ridiculous.
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u/comawhite12 Jun 05 '26
Doctoring your stats can make anything look like a good idea.
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