Liberal poll analyst Nate Silver decided that yesterday was a good time to publish a tweet downplaying crime in New York City. It was a bad idea.
The city is reeling over the recent execution-style murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione, who was arraigned in a NYC court this week, and the murder of a woman by an illegal alien who allegedly set her on fire on the subway.
See Silver’s tweet below:
Here are some reactions:
Even the liberal journal The Atlantic is admitting that New York City has a problem:
New York City Has Lost Control of CrimeIt was like something out of the horrors of New York City’s past. At 7:30 yesterday morning, a man approached a woman sleeping on a Coney Island F train. The man proceeded to light the woman on fire, according to police, and then calmly watched her burn to death as transit police attempted to extinguish the flames.A suspect has been taken into custody. But the killing marks a gruesome milestone—11 murders in New York’s subways in 2024, the highest figure in decades. It adds to the pervasive sense of unease on many people’s daily commutes. Transit statistics show that other kinds of violent crime, too, have risen on a per-rider basis, leaving millions of New Yorkers worrying about whether they will be next.
What Silver did in that tweet is the same as Democrats and the media insisting that the Biden economy is great while people struggle financially under inflation. You can’t lie to people about what they can see with their own eyes.
New York City has a crime problem.
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