Crime in the Schools - 3 New York Officials Speak Out - NYTimes.com "The School-to-Prison Pipeline" (editorial, May 30) left us scratching our heads. It said that, nationally, schools are no safer than they were a decade ago even though suspensions have increased, and then suggested that New York City is emblematic of the problem. In fact, the opposite is true in New York City. Over the last decade, the Bloomberg administration has cut crime in schools by 48 percent, and crime has dropped another 18 percent so far this year. In addition, in 2011 the Department of Education revised its disciplinary code, and in partnership with our Young Men's Initiative, we adopted alternate dispute resolution trainings and expanded mentoring, which have led to a 22 percent reduction in school suspensions this year. In 2011, New York City's suspension rate was roughly half the rate of Baltimore, which the editorial holds up as a model! At the same time, arrests in New York City schools this year have dropped by 44 percent. Rather than exhort the next mayor to adopt the practices of other cities, you should look more carefully at what is happening right here in your hometown under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg. The writers are, respectively, New York City schools chancellor; deputy mayor for health and human services; and chief policy adviser to Mayor Bloomberg.