barnard college student as she was looking down at her cell phone. after a year and a half of defunding the police and building monuments to george floyd morning side park hasn t gotten any safer. think about the implications of that. authorities can t even secure a park a few steps away from one of the most well known universities in the world. if it s dangerous there it s dangerous everywhere. the new york of the early 1990s is back. and it s not just new york. many of this country s biggest cities are going backwards in the same way. the city of philadelphia, my hometown, just set a new all-time record for murders. the 513 murders in philadelphia this year breaks the city s previous record of 500, which was set in 1990. just days ago a 14-year-old boy in the city was shot 18 times. a 14-year-old thomas a. edison high school freshman was waiting for the bus. monday afternoon around 3:30