This is an insightful post. The numbers posted above start at 1990 which was the tail-end of the decades of heroin, cocaine and crack epidemics in NYC. It looks like crime is back down towards a rate similar to 1965:
I'm with you on that. Or it should force someone to comment if your down voting, but that has notable drawbacks when a comment is just plain inflammatory.
http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/nycrime.htm
Not sure about the exactness of these statistics, just a quick google result that seems legit.