1. Don’t forget: NYPD makes its data public, and quickly. You can verify claims yourself here: www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stat…
2. Be wary of cherry-picking. Some things rise, others fall. The Narrative adapts.
3. Only the upticks seem to trigger discussions of reforms. I’ve seen nothing asking if, say, reforms cut assaults. Note that.
5. Related, crime in cities won’t always move the same way. If someone discusses “rises of X in cities A, B, and C,” need to also know if X fell in D, E.
Maybe. But did city C adopt X too and see a spike? What rose and fell post-X? Etc etc.
Media coverage, tho, is far less likely to make this error.