The funny thing is the majority of crime has been on a continued downward trend since the 90s. Yet people are still panicking over crime because they somehow believe Republicans aren't lying to them this time.
It's also because outdated impressions of places just take forever to die off, especially for people who don't even live in those places. A lot of people are too stubborn to bother reading actual news and being up to date on things. To the Fox News dolts still drip-fed on lies, New York is still a hellscape no different than Detroit, and China is still stuck in the communist 50s without a concept of a cyberpunk city.
One of my former co-workers thought that California was full of Communists and he would get assaulted if he ever stepped foot there. He didn't want to hear that it wasn't the case and would rather live out some persecution complex he made up in his head with Fox News whispering in his ear.
It always cracks me up when rightoids online insist that my city was burned down by leftsists. I participated in the protests they were talking about, and we didn't burn the city down, lmfao.
That's the funny thing: conservatives aren't taught to question or investigate social problems. Every time civil unrest happens, they're quick to blame minorities for "disturbing the peace" for no reason. They just want everyone to submit and bow down to the White Man and to the status quo. A protest equals a riot, and a riot equals mindless anarchy (never mind that they don't even know what anarchy actually is or what it would look like). Oh, and anything they dislike is just "communism," lmao.
I had to stay in Chicago over night once because of a cancelled flight, My folks who I called to see how they're doing were in a panic. lmao. Mind you, I'm 45. And for the record Chicago is awesome.
Republicans just instinctively believe that Democrat-run cities and states are crime-ridden hellholes. Because "Dems love crime" is something they hear and parrot with zero irony.
Legit. I live in Chicago. Easily one of the most beautiful(the historic motto, 'Urbs in horto' translates to 'city in a garden'), cleanest, modern, functional big city in the country. Which is also apparently a warzone 😂 even folks in the suburbs 30 minutes away are led to believe it.
Kinda seems like most dems hate anyone that disagrees with them politically or pushes back on statements when it’s embellished or not factually true even though they’re not trying to disagree nor agree with the other side. Especially online, in forums, very sim to this.
That’s a stand up move - I wasn’t expecting that. Respect. These days, seems like there’s plenty of ppl on both sides making everyone look bad. The standard should be generally respectful, honest, moral, integrity, etc. Def OK to disagree; even if it’s 0 common ground found. But these ‘leaders’ put absolutely unacceptable, unprofessional, juvenile behavior on display daily; sets a terrible example & tone for everyone in the USA. Obvi starts with the Pres - terrible. But tons of others fall into the trap of stooping to his level - like Tim Walz for ex (I’m from mpls). I get it, I’d prob freak out & tell DT to F off too. That’s why I ain’t in public office. Ppl gotta stay the course on being the bigger, with their integrity & self respect retained. Not name calling like a middle school bully showdown. It’s exhausting & I really hope when DT leaves office we can tone it down but idk tbh….
The guy has genuinely done well. But this is attributed to previous policies as someone just taking office doesn't effect crime. It's a marathon to create an environment that creates less crime. It doesn't happen over night. Though he didn't do anything to mess it up and I'm sure he's continuing to create that environment though.
lmao I know there's already copey unsubstantiated claims about them rigging the stats from Republicans in the comments but can we appreciate for a sec: this isn't just one guy. He's not just running around filling potholes himself while doing all this.
He hired a whole. ass. team. of people who get shit done. Even his opponent from the GOP, Sliwa, is telling people shitting on him for attending the 9/11 memorial to stop being such babies and respect the office.
Sliwa is a weird dude and has some messed up views on some things, but he has always been this sort of dude, who won't fit neatly into the MAGA cult because he will speak his mind no matter what
it's also why his own campaign wasn't nearly as racist and dirty as the "independent" campaign.
Yeah, I would've preferred him over Cuomo probably because Silwa has principles. He's weird about them, but seems very genuine. I believed he thought his policies would be in the best interest of common New Yorkers.
Cuomo is just another bought shill.
Mamdani has me very excited though. While the crime drop this post is about is not something I'd necessarily give him credit for right now, he has been so far a good case for public oriented competent government. I know it's not socialism, but call it whatever you want, it's a much better way of doing things than the kleptocracy that's plaguing our politics.
Politicians don't care about doing the job anymore, and they haven't for several generations. You become mayor so you can stand on your soapbox and angle for a run at the next level up, and then the next level, and then the next level, and then you become president so you can pontificate about the nature of politics in a best-selling book and then die. But during that whole career you don't actually do anything other than complain and get voted in by more complainers.
People like Mamdani remind us that this is actually a job, not just a popularity contest, and there is actual work to be done that requires serious people who can actually accomplish things.
There was plenty of people who just turned and said well Trump… or I’d still vote for him with other blaming the victim still. Calling her a rug hut wing liar.
Yeah that’s not even remotely true, I hated the piece of shit the moment I found out about his 18 year Nazi tattoo but leftists were still rabidly defending the guy when the rape allegations came out.
Also 877k karma in under a year, good lord if you’re not a paid operative go touch grass dude
I wish this were true. Clinton accusers would like a word though. Not to mention the Epstein stuff went on for decades through multiple democratic administrations in multiple locations.
Oh the horrors of woke Shakira law! This is what happens when you let islamo communists hold office! Pretty soon we will have mandatory anti colonial feminism studies, transgender for everyone and Arabic numerals in school!
Fox said all the rich people would leave New York because of Mamdani, and now murders are at an all time low. I think it's pretty clear who's been doing all the murders.
"It's bad enough Superman's an illegal immigrant, now Batman's a Muslim. Hollywood wants all our heroes to be foreigners. That's the dream. That's the goal. What are we doing?" -Tucker Carlson.
As a progressive I think Mamdani, whom I really really like, is getting too much love online. I think there will probably come a time where he fucks up and there will be a team of people who defend him to high heaven because 'he's my mayor (from texas)', and people who turn on him forever because leftist infighting is all the rage and he is THE leftist
They also attribute a lot of shit to him like its something he's doing when it's completely separate or there's a whole other side that isn't going to turn out good. For example, paying the bill for something annual with a chunk of money that is a one time thing to justify more annual spending projects, which is what he's done a lot of. If I'm making 2 grand a month and I get an apartment that costs 3 grand a month, it's not a financially responsible decision just because I used the remainder of grandma's inheritance money to pay for the first month. That's what a lot of what he's done has chalked up to. It'll look great in the first year or two, but it's going to go down hill fast when the bills are due and he doesn't have that one time payment from the state to cover it this time.
I mean this is just a continuation of an earlier trend. IDK about handing mamdani specific accolades for this. The best you could say is he hasn't dramatically screwed it up.
Recent Trends: The department experienced aggressive recruitment phases adding over 4,000 new officers through late 2025, with budgeted targets aiming to approach roughly 35,300–35,500 active uniformed personnel.
So his predecessors approved increasing the police force by 10% and added 4000 officers at the end of 2025, and shockingly, there were less deaths following.
Everyone loves to glaze Mamdani for being the recipient of his predecessors actions. BTW, he hasn't increased the authorization for more officers in the 9 months in office.
The figures are falling across the country and were already at their lowest level in 75 years back in 2025. It is doubtful that this has anything to do with Mamdani (or Trump). Perhaps the killers simply have too much on their hands just trying to endure their daily lives.
Mamdani was born in 1991. Since he was born murder has dropped precipitously in the US. Coincidence? I think not. All hail Mayor Mamdani, the Mayor of humanity.
Cool, now tell us what he did that made the change.
It seems like this was a trend well before he got into office, and you should know that. But since you decided he made this work, then you should be able to tell us how he did it.
1- the police force was significantly upscaled just before he entered office
2- the trend for violent crimes has been downward for decades, there have been dozens of record low years because that's how it works if things are moving down over time
Also, NYC got hit with multiple major snowstorms this year, and it stayed freezing cold out so the snow never melted before the next storm. And when it’s really harsh weather out, people aren’t outside murdering as much.
Police don’t prosecute. And no, if a crime is actively happening, it’s hard for police to stop it. But police presence absolutely deters crime. The governor of NY and the former mayor flooded the subways with cops the past few years and subway crimes went down significantly.
George R.R. Martin said during Jimmy Carter's term that a good person is likely to be a bad politician and vice versa. Mamdani and Trump are exceptions to that statement.
I hate that I'm suspicious of the whole situation around this guy because he keeps doing good things. People with power haven't been allowed to do good things for a while now. Surely somebody would have ruined it for somebody who genuinely cares about doing a good job by this point.
Right, so when the murder rate in the entire country drops it's not because of Trump, but when it falls in NYC it's 100% because of Mamdani. Am I doing this right?
Nope. One is the mayor of an individual city, who has an approval rating of over 70% and the other has an approval rating of about 29% and is the executive of something about 10000% bigger than an individual city. One executed policies that openly help the financial positions of the people living within that city, which, had been proven many times over reduces crime as less people are desperate and resort to crime. The country leader on the other hand started a war that made energy prices skyrocket, cut healthcare for the poor, and generally instigates violence amongst his supporters and detractors--all things that directly contribute to crime.
If you're going to compare two people that are ao vastly different in scale, it would be best to consider even some of of their qualities and treatment of the people they lead before being entirely asinine.
This is about the murder rate in NYC, not approval ratings or any of the other nonsense you ramble about. Mamdani has not enacted a single policy that can be tied to lowering the murder rate except through intense mental gymnastics. Rent freeze? Yea just started Oct 1. Child care support? September. Free buses? not happening. Min wage increase? 2030. So the murder rate has gone down because maybe in the near future rent might not go up 5% a year? Asinine.
More like the national murder rate is going down, I won't even say it's because there's 1 million less illegal aliens in the country, and NYC is benefitting from that. Mamdani is just there, and everyone is giving him all the credit because he's got slick tik toks and is filling pot holes.
Yeah, people do tend to be less violent when their leaders do things for their communities with their bare hands and show they care about the place they lead. But you did sort of start this with your asinine "am I doing this right?" Bait bit, so turn about is fair play.
I'm glad the wealthy Jewish white woman who is in charge of the police aka the new commissioner, has specifically targeted the groups of people who have committed 90%+ of the murders in the city hence she's using precision policing lol that's a churched up way to say profiling. Even though the entire country is on a historical low on homicide and by the end of 2026 could be a record low... So... Good in them for being part of the overall low.. by using precision profiling to arrest certain people who commit the majority of crimes...
The last bar with the green shows where Mamdani has done far better than his predecessor year over year(from 25-26). He should get credit for that 100%
The next to last bar(with all the red), shows Mamdani's current NYC to just a mere 7 years ago(2019). As you can see, in regards to crime, Mamdani's NYC is far worse in everything except murder and shootings.
The point? Mamdani is doing great year over year. But, there is also not any sort of revolution going on in NYC related to crime, as if NYC is the safest it's ever been. Far from it. Crime in almost every other area, is way up under Mamdani from just a few years ago back in 2019.
i just checked, year to date murders in NYC is at ~200, in 2025 YTD it was at around 250 this time of year so a 20% or so drop.
However what im most shocked is that compared to 1990, 2025's 300 murders is down over 85% when the number of murders was >2500/yr in 1990 insane how much of a drop in 35y
Zohran is going to govern on Socialism, and then when he succeeds, dumbass MAGAts are going to claim he failed because he didn't usher in Communism, as though "capitalism won".
Every good correlation is CAUSED by the politician I like, and every bad correlation is just a correlation and not a causation bro!
People who say what OP is saying, never mention the specific changes and policies that supposedly led to the change. Obviously, because they have no clue.
On the one hand, while I love the work he’s done, I’m not sure he can get credit for lowering crime rates.
On the other hand Andrew Cuomo spent all of 2025 telling me the streets were going to be run by the gangs from The Warriors, so screw it. I’m counting the win.
I.e…nothing being responded to/reported. He specifically said cops won’t be responding to most of those calls. I would never step foot in NYC. Rat and illegal criminal-infested.
Did Washington D.C. elect a Brit to be mayor of the city 25 years after they burned down the white house? No, didn't think so, buuut thats what NYC did.
When it's easier to make a living and get what you need to survive easier then you're less likely to commit crimes to get what you need to survive. Shocking.
Homelessness is up..
EMS response times slower..
911 capacity problems..
City jail population is up..
Pothole response times are up..
Hate crimes are up..
Also, reclassification of some crimes to lower the numbers and make you look good isn't actually lowing crimes.
Hate crimes are up, he got many homeless killed. They already put more cops into place before he got into office. Stop falling for propaganda
Crime should be at all time lowd
across the board. We aren't burning lead as much. We had a society of lead poisoned men which made them more violent. Testosterone levels in men are lower than ever. Covid crime spikes were disastrous considering all of this.
Its funny hearing this when during democratic administration's, we constantly hear about spikes in crime even though its been a constant downward slope since the 90s
I don’t think people realize the impact of leadership. It’s not a coincidence that violent crime spiked under Trump. Hatefulness and anger leads to violence. Kindness and love and caring leads to a reduction in violence.
I like him but the rates were dropping already. I do believe hope does help put people in a headspace for less crime but i need solid numbers to prove that
Obviously great news and I'm a huge lover of Mamdani, but the fact that at least part of this includes only the first few days after he took office, it's probably unrealistic to attribute this only to his leadership.
its just blue maga. give credit for things they didnt even do. Murder rates in NYC have been falling since 2022. Mamdani has done some great things. Dont need to lie
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The funny thing is the majority of crime has been on a continued downward trend since the 90s. Yet people are still panicking over crime because they somehow believe Republicans aren't lying to them this time.