Ending on a High Note: 2016 was Brooklyn’s Safest on Record

As we scan news cycles with varying degrees of attentiveness, it is hard not to feel (this year above all) that the bad news overwhelms the good, and that our streets are not particularly safe, especially when some of the bad news we see happens close to our homes.
Despite impressions like these, Brooklyn officials had surprisingly good news for us to round out a rather glum year: The last 12 months in Brooklyn have been the safest on record, reports DNAinfo.
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