Has New York broken its three-year-old subway curse, under which violent felonies have soared even as nonviolent thefts stayed low? Not yet.
New police data show the city is trying — but running up to the limits of what it can do without changes to state law.
NYPD Transit Chief Michael Kemper did a little well-deserved bragging last week: “Crime is down” on the subways, he said. “This is real progress.”
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Nicole Gelinas is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and contributing editor at City Journal. Follow her on Twitter here.
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