Sometimes what you read in the Globe or other outlets picks at different things that are happening. We want to get better every single day. But last year, Boston had the safest year ever on record. Right? The number of homicides that the city recorded was far and away the lowest of any major city nationally and the lowest that we had seen since we started recording data 70 years ago. Throughout that entire time, the Boston Globe didn't even write a single piece and to this day still really hasn't delved into how that happened. Right. (34:07–34:18)
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