BY FRANKLIN ZIMRING NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Sunday, January 7, 2018, 5:00 AM The statistics out of New York’s police headquarters for 2017 are nothing short of wonderful. This crazy polyglot metropolis of 8.5 million reported a total volume of homicides under 300, a rate per 100,000 citizens of 3.4, and a decline from the Gotham’s bad old days of 1990 of 89%. The city is bigger than ever, just as diverse and vastly less dangerous. How did this happen? What happens next? Two further details about public safety in New York deserve special mention before addressing the mystery of causes. First, it isn’t just homicide that has declined in unprecedented fashion; street crimes like robbery, burglary and auto theft have also dropped by close to 90%. Homicide numbers are worth special attention because it is the crime we most fear and the event that is the most difficult to hide from notice. Second, the crime news remains rosy even when 2017’s totals are compared to non-crisis
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