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Any change from approximately zero is large.

Nyc has had several months without a single murder.

When quoting percentages, it is helpful to establish what the baseline is and how it compares historically.

Previous “slowdowns” by the NYPD have resulted in a drastic reduction in reported crime in NYC. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-nypd-slowdowns-dirty-littl...

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Months without a single murder? Which months?

Some historical data -- 2019 average just under one murder per day, 2020 is over one murder per day and up significantly from 2019 so far:

https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statist...

More like one every three days in 2019.

319 is not one every three days. It's technically .87 per day if you want to be precise.

Or, a little over 5 every 6 days.

that's certainly another way to put it.

Thanks, I read it wrong!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/nyregion/east-new-york-pr...

> Previous “slowdowns” by the NYPD have resulted in a drastic reduction in reported crime in NYC.

I couldn't find where that was mentioned in your linked article, but the Occam's razor takeaway is that the crime is still happening and not being reported because people know nothing will be done.

Hard to not mention violent crime though

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