How does the decline of lethal violence change the way New York thinks about government leadership?
For my entire lifetime, the central political issue in New York City has been crime, and even more specifically, the murder rate. In the New York City of my youth, the local evening news and the front pages of the Post and the Daily News were effectively a crime blotter, your daily dose of grisly crimes and ineffective politicians, vicious gangs and heroic cops. Worries about crime played a key role in everyday decisions, about whether to take the subway at night or whether
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