All those great television police dramas - Kojak to NYPD Blue - based on New York's "mean streets" may be a thing of the past if this miserable trend continues. For the second year in a row, NY is the safest big city in the US.
The graph showing the drop in murders since 1990 shows the remarkable impact that the Giuliani administration and zero tolerance had on NYC. No way that demographics can explain this, despite what I heard recently on an Irish radio program.
