> We’ve known that it was important to keep petty crime in control since NYC’s “No Broken Windows” policies of the 1990s.

Actually, it is clear that that local policy either did nothing at all but was simply adopted at the right time to be given local credit for broader demographic (e.g., population bulge aging out of the main crime-driving age band), economic, and environmental (e.g., lead exposure) factors, or it was so successful that it somehow managed to effect places outside of New York across the country that didn’t adopt similar policies.