Boston officials celebrate crime 2024 crime statistics [Video]

With New Year’s Eve around the corner, Boston city leaders are celebrating the success of “strategies that have made Boston the safest major city in the country.”Mayor Michelle Wu, Police Commissioner Michael Cox and Senior Advisor for Community Safety Isaac Yablo invited reporters to police headquarters on Friday to discuss crime statistics from the past year.”Safety isn’t just the absence of harm or fear or violence; it is the positive affirmation of belonging,” Wu said. “Of people feeling excited to be a part of a community that they are welcome and able to use every opportunity in every part of every neighborhood.” The mayor said that recent crime prevention successes can be traced back to a violence reduction workshop held for city agencies in 2022. Wu said important strategies have included providing crime statistics periodically to communities, recruiting larger classes of new and diverse officers, a 2023 police contract that …