Many American cities have suffered through alarming increases in their homicide rates this summer. New York City is not one of them.

As the Wall Street Journal reported on September 2, “[b]etween June and August there were 82 homicides and 345 shootings in the five boroughs, the lowest for both data points since the New York Police Department began keeping detailed records two decades ago. These months tend to be the city’s most violent.” So, make of New York mayor Bill De Blasio what you will, but he was on solid ground when he proclaimed the summer of 2015 to be the “safest in New York in twenty years.”