In a city of 8.6 million people, in a country flooded with guns, this is pretty incredible. New York is getting something very, very right.https://twitter.com/patrick_sharkey/status/1052542751911407616 …
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You just need to field a police force the size of a European military. Also, gentrify much of the city.
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Noah SmithVerified account @Noahpinion4/So is this right? Is the replacement of black residents by white residents the reason for New York's epic crime drop? Here is the data for % white, % black, and murder rates in NYC by decade, from 1960 through 2010. pic.twitter.com/aQtDN2NjzOShow this thread1 reply 1 retweet 25 likes -
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I'm not using gentrification as some sort of euphemism for race. The city very profoundly changed over the past 20 years.https://www.citylab.com/life/2017/04/the-gentrification-of-gotham/524694/ …
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I mean, I do agree that rising incomes reduce crime.
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You're missing the bit where Giuliani ran the homeless out of town, and embarked on 'stop and frisk'.
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How many cities did Giuliani serve as mayor for? Because there drop in crime has been a national pattern.
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New York's has been unusually large, but the most incredible has actually been D.C.
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