thank you for sharing the link! IIt looks like you are right, according to the statistics.

while NYC crime rates have gone up during the pandemic according to this link: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/new-york-struggles-with-a-sharp-rise-in-violent-crime-amid-covid-19

you are right that it was higher in the early '90s. Yet I never felt unsafe in the mid-80s when I traveled on the subways. Maybe it's because we didn't have youtube back then?