'I Don't Want to Die' was the headline occupying the bottom half of the New York Post's front page May 10, quoting a 23-year-old Rhode Island woman who was among the three people—including a 4-year-old girl—struck by bullets in Times Square two afternoons earlier when a man arguing with his brother decided to spice up his rhetoric with a drizzle of bullets.
It was one of those high-profile crimes in a famous location—in this case, the Crossroads of the World—that highlights a problem far more vividly than reciting the aggregate numbers that show the city remains in a rough period: murders up 17 percent through May 2 compared with the same period last year, and shootings up 83 percent. What made this particularly ominous was that in 2020, when shootings nearly doubled compared to the previous year, things didn't get really bad until the summer.
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