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Another mass shooting renews sparring over crime

Three people were killed and nine others wounded in a shooting at a bar in Crown Heights early Sunday morning. The violence appears to be gang-related, but “there had to have been innocent victims” who were not part of the shootout, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told The New York Times on Sunday.

This comes less than a month after a gunman killed four people in Midtown Manhattan, including two Jewish women who were beloved in their Upper East Side synagogues.

Though crime has dropped in New York since the pandemic, it’s

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