This meme (above) was immediately interesting to me, but not because it looked accurate or trustworthy. In fact, it looked interesting because it looked absurd. So I thought I'd pull a Ronald Reagan and "trust but verify." After an exhaustive Google search, I was finally able to figure out how to find "nyc crime rate by year" and I also found an official table of crime statistics through calendar year 2021 (the last complete year and last year for which information is fully available).