Part of the $400 million in state money earmarked for the city of Albany by Gov. Kathy Hochul may go toward supporting law enforcement in the Capital City, where the perception of crime may, at times, outpace actual crime.

Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan and interim Police Chief Brendan Cox recently announced a drop in crime – specifically, that overall crime in Albany was down 12%. The devil, though, is in the details: If business owners and patrons don’t believe crime is down, or if the city’s police agencies are struggling to hire enough officers to walk a beat, the story the statistics tell can only go so far.

Sheehan and Cox joined Capital Tonight on Wednesday to discuss the funding and the effort to combat crime in New York’s capital city.