“Blakeman campaign framing: Nassau County is "the safest county in the country" under his leadership”
The ranking is real but narrow and dated, and the underlying trend cuts both ways. Nassau was named the safest county in the United States in a 2024 U.S. News & World Report analysis — a single publication's methodology, not a federal crime statistic. Eight of the 25 counties on that list were in New York State, the state Blakeman's campaign describes as unsafe. Nassau's own numbers do not move in a straight line under Blakeman: violent crime rose by roughly 350 incidents in 2022, his first year as county executive, continued climbing through 2023 and 2024, and fell in 2025. Index crime peaked in 2023. Statewide, New York's crime rise and subsequent decline tracked national trends closely, which limits how much either candidate can claim credit.