Zohran Mamdani: “Murder went down by over 20% from last year.”

“The lives New Yorkers live, the ways that our neighbors interact with our city, and the countless hours of unseen hard work by the men and women in this room and beyond it that have delivered that, this progress. When we say that Murder went down by over 20% from last year. that. Is anything but abstract. Each of those percentage points adds up to dining room tables without an empty seat, lives free from the dark cloud of grief.” (21:51–21:55)

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