I've always sensed NYC is advantaged in citywide statistics by its scale: violence in the city's disenfranchised areas is severe, but they're bundled in with huge areas of the city that are prosperous & well cared for. Would need to disentangle that before reading too far into its laws/enforcement.

Would be great if we had a city-version of the National Crime Victimization Survey so we could see what share of various crimes (robberies, etc) involved firearms, to see if it is lower than elsewhere. (Shout out to the people who had this good idea: www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/cri...)

NYPD supplementary homicide reports show a higher share of non-firearm homicides than firearm are domestic (38% v. 26%). 86% of white victims, 71% of Asian victims, 76% of women are killed w non-firearm. Whereas gang, robbery, drug-related are disproportionately w guns. www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/st...

Gun violence rate varies a lot between cities; non-gun violence rate less so. What we think of as a "safer" city is less gun violence where de facto, non-gun homicides make up a larger share. Chart/data from vintage @everytown.bsky.social report: centerforimprovinginvestigations.org/wp-content/u...

Most memorably, in final remarks the bill's co-sponsor Rep. Micaela Lara Cadena responded to Muñoz:

"It was shared today that the alcohol industry made clear what they're willing to settle on. For me as a policymaker, that's not what I come to Santa Fe for."

Next up, Rep. Patricia Lundstrom, who helped kill the bill in committee last year, reiterated her opposition. "I'm not going to add more taxes onto McKinley County if I don't see a clear path, I'm just going to say that now."

He added that last year, after alcohol-friendly legislators killed the bill and subbed a much smaller penny-a-drink increase, that "was kind of a message that's the middle ground that the alcohol companies will will settle on."

My coverage at the time: nmindepth.com/2025/after-h...

In response to the presenters, Sen. George Muñoz said the local alcohol tax in his county of McKinley "hasn't changed behavior." Then, somewhat contradictorily, he said he supported allowing other localities to levy their own. "Why aren't we giving the excise tax option to every city and county?"

More from the Suffolk University poll: www.suffolk.edu/-/media/suff...

Do you support or oppose "defund the police"?
Support - 21%
Oppose - 74%

Would you support or oppose cutting some of the police budget and using the money for social services?
Support - 54%
Oppose - 41%

I know the exception proves the rule but since it pubbed today @thetrace.org www.thetrace.org/2025/09/bran...