There’s growing unease that New York City may be in danger of returning to its bad old ways. This report from the London Independent notes that Nurse Bloomberg is saying that he is staking his reputation on school reform, an important enough goal, the writer agrees, but then goes on to make the point that matters:

“It seems [Bloomberg] also needs to pay more attention…to rising crime or – correction – the perception of rising crime. Keeping up the number of cops might be a first step.”

Indeed it is.