Anecdotal - Citizen App blowing up, in several neighborhoods I know well. A large number of street robberies, gunshots heard. Unusual events, like a deadly assault during the afternoon in an area that never happened.

Before the pandemic crime had spiked for certain things, like misdemeanor assaults and robberies, I want to say 20+ percent. The politicians use Major Crimes, because it makes them look better as they go down and you can also make them go down by downgrading indictments or pushing people who report crimes so it's filed differently (if you've been the victim of robbery they'll do everything to lower the value of the items, as one example). But you can view CompStat data from before the pandemic. DAs accused the NYPD of exaggerating but DAs had already begun to decline to prosecute. Also the discovery rules just got more strict.

Now logic for the present moment: a large percentage of the NYPD is out sick, a lot of people have no income and there's no one in the street. Would you feel safe? There are regular strongarm and knife-point robberies reported on Citizen near where I live.