Opinion | Assaulting New Yorkers’ safety: The NYPD’s challenge to bring down one type of crime

Yesterday, Mayor Adams touted crime statistics, noting that index crimes overall are down — with murder, shootings, burglary, theft and auto theft all seeing declines. That’s good news. But the very same city that’s growing safer in these ways is also getting less safe in other ways. And those other ways include some very, very serious offenses that happen far more often than either murders or shootings.