The media and public officials portray the city’s escalating violent-crime problem as arbitrary — but the assailants and their targets are both entirely predictable.
New York City is mired in a frightening swamp of violent crime. Assurances from proponents of criminal-justice reform that there’s nothing to worry about, as the crime rate is still well below early 1990s levels, ring hollow. These same advocates for social progress would not be consoled if they were told that maternal deaths and poverty rates were worse in the 1990s. That crime isn’t as bad as it was 30 years ago is no consolation.
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Seth Barron is managing editor of The American Mind. Adapted from City Journal.
This piece originally appeared in The New York Sun