You know that whole "no news is good news" thing? Well, what about good news being good news? Because we have some great news for you, New York City.

According to the New York Police Department, this past June was NYC's safest June since 1993, which, as you can imagine, is amazing.

"We've got a good handle on the crime situation in the City of New York," Commissioner Bill Bratton told reporters, according to Gothamist. He also mentioned that crime has decreased by 8.5% in the last month, and that 47,000 crimes were logged in the first six months of the year.

47,000 crimes in NYC might not sound like a good thing (and we mean, it's not), but if we continue at this rate, we're likely to have a year with crime at an all-time low in NYC.

According to Gothamist, NYC has never had fewer than 100,000 crimes a year since the police started keeping track.

Police have also made 35,000 fewer arrests in the first six months of this year than they did in the first six months of last year, and have written 47,000 fewer summonses.

How did they attain such an incredible statistical feat?

The NYPD began a "Summer All-Out Initiative," in which they sent 300 officers to Harlem, the Rockaways, and Staten Island from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m., and midnight on weekends, as these are the times and areas where the city has suffered the highest increase of shootings and murders.

"Since 'Summer All-Out' began on June 8th, in those commands, we've seen shootings decrease by more than 19%, and murders dropped by 50%," Chief of Department James O'Neill said.

But as for that whole "great news" thing, numbers are a great way to situate the truth.

You can shuffle whatever you need to behind them rather quietly, and when numbers shuffle truths, it's a little too easy for us to lose our grasp on the tragic realities of the days we walked through seemingly unscathed.

What these statistics fail to illuminate are the exact things that would render them meaningless. Because we may have just lived through NYC's safest June in more than twenty years, but in 22-year old Kalief Browder, we can see there's still a dire need for improvement.

In 2010, Kalief Browder was accused of robbing a backpack when he was sixteen, but was never convicted of the crime. In fact, he never got a trial.

Kalief spent a three brutal years in Rikers Island, often beaten by guards and forced into more than 400 days of solitary confinement, all while he awaited trial. That trial never happened, and because of his treatment, he attempted to take his own life a number of times in prison.

After his release from the prison in 2013, he suffered a tumultuous two years that included prolonged stays in the hospital, scattered enrollment at Bronx Community College, and a suicide attempt in November of 2013.

See, "the safest June since 1993" doesn't include so much as a footnote of Kalief Browder's suicide on June 6th. Because of his death, there are now protests to stop trying 16-and 17-year-olds as adults in NYC.

#resistrikers "solitary confinement for anyone needs to end" pic.twitter.com/wrngM3ZhGw

— Erika Eichelberger (@eichelberger_e) June 27, 2015

Mayor de Blasio announced in December he had ended the practice of putting 16-and-17-year-olds in solitary confinement and allocated $32 million to increase mental health support for prisoners, according to International Business Times.

In June, The New York Times reported that authorities "tentatively agreed" to test out body cameras for Rikers Island guards, install 8,000 extra surveillance cameras, and implement rules to limit the use of force against Rikers Island inmates.

Now we need to implement these initiatives more earnestly.

It's amazing that NYC just logged its safest June in more than twenty years, and not only that, but we have a way to measure it with arrests and lower murder rates.

We're taking steps in the right direction, but let's end the injustice. And let's have an even safer, more just July.

Sound good, NYC?

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