Mayor de Blasio gets called out for spinning NYC crime stats

Mayor Bill de Blasio gave a briefing this morning where he touted the city’s year-over-year drop in murders and shootings, but there’s something important he’s left out:

FYI: after months of widespread fear-mongering, @NYCMayor decided just this morning to share statistics showing crime is lower than last year. pic.twitter.com/biDkEhdZMA

— CPR #EndPoliceSecrecy – Change the NYPD (@changethenypd) July 6, 2021

So, de Blasio is just going to leave out how much higher crime is in 2021 than it was in 2019?

After a year of saying 2020 was totally anomalous because of the pandemic, now de Blasio is using 2020 shooting numbers as a baseline to say things are getting better even as shootings are still way up from 2019 https://t.co/2Dl9PaikCB

— Harry Siegel (@harrysiegel) July 6, 2021

Here is the real trend:

“Recovery Summer”
June 2019: 89 shootings
2020: 205
2021: ~160 https://t.co/gWCmF6tPrb

— Harry Siegel (@harrysiegel) July 6, 2021

Watch for yourself:

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio touts "almost 20%" drop in shootings and "murders down 23%" compared to June 2020:

“Overall crime, year-to-date, slightly down — but a lot more work to do.” pic.twitter.com/cfapoNS1mi

— The Recount (@therecount) July 6, 2021

And in other NYC news, WTF???

Welcome to De Blasio's New York City. pic.twitter.com/WvMiDb4Rir

— Ian Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com (@stillgray) July 4, 2021

Let’s see de Blasio try to spin that one. Yikes.

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