It was a year like no other. And much of what the city was like through 2020 can be distilled from a significant spikes in murders and shootings.
The year began with increases in robberies, burglaries and shootings, surges that Commissioner Dermot Shea, Mayor de Blasio and others blamed on bail reforms that essentially went into effect toward the close of 2019.
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