Happy anniversary — and a fast forward to 2022, when New York City mayor Eric Adams finally said the quiet part out loud. Adams slammed Black Lives Matter and anti-police activists after a recent spring night of bloodshed across the city that left more than a dozen people shot. “Where are all those who stated ‘Black Lives Matter’?” Adams said. “The victims were all black.” Three people killed and thirteen others wounded in a series of shootings. Zero were shot by police officers. “The lives of these black children that are dying every night matter,” Adams said. “We can’t be hypocrites.”

Lots of interesting statistics in this article.  Readers of the Manhattan Contrarian will be acquainted with the vast sums of money that are spent on public housing in New York City and how despite that how poorly maintained it is.  Public housing also tends to be a crime zone:

New York and NYCHA are simultaneously among the most diverse places in America and the most segregated. About 27 percent of the city’s households in poverty are white, but less than 5 percent of NYCHA households are white. In contrast, about a fourth of the city’s households in poverty are black, but black households occupy 45 percent of NYCHA units. But even that does not tell the real tale. NYCHA is segregated building-by-building. Rutland Towers in East Flatbush is 94.9 percent black. Though Asians make up less than 5 percent of the overall NYCHA population, the La Guardia Addition at Two Bridges is 70 percent Asian.

NYCHA is also very dangerous. The NYPD counted fifty-nine homicides on NYCHA property in 2020, up 41 percent from 2019. The murder rate is far worse in the projects than elsewhere. As of late 2020, the projects saw 15.5 homicides per 100,000 people, compared to only four per 100,000 elsewhere in the city. Police counted 257 shooting incidents in NYCHA projects in 2020, a 92 percent increase over 2019. Some sixty-seven shootings were reported per 100,000 NYCHA residents, compared to twelve per 100,000 in the rest of the city. A lot of numbers that all add up one way.