Again, this is complete BS. It may be true in other parts of the country, but not NYC. Why not name your city so I can look up the data there?
I grew up in the hood around gang violence from the 80s to the 00s, which is why I don't want things going back to how unsafe they were. Telling people "at least it's not as bad as the 80s and 90s" is dumb as shit. Shit is clearly bad here and those of us that have lived here have clearly seen it get worse and not better, especially since nowadays the violence is completely random. Spare me the historic lows BS.
Staten Island really makes the whole city look safer. These are the stats for violent crime.
744.2 for NYC as a whole in 2022. 520 is the average for the country for 2022 Staten Island 2022: 359.8 The Bronx 2022: 1,290.2
These are also the numbers for 2015 and 2021 to show that they have definitely gone up.
2015 The Bronx 553.2 Staten Island: 137.3
2021 The Bronx: 1,039.0 Staten Island: 265.8
So, while State Island was half the national average in 2021, and it increasing to 359.8 meant a 40% increase, it's really not that serious. Now the Bronx going from 1039.0, already 4x Staten Island, jumping up by 20% to 1290.2 is very serious. That's one of the highest numbers in the country. The only places beating that are places like Detroit.
This is ignoring that Mayor Adams, a former cop, won with the help of the black and Hispanic communities in Brooklyn and the Bronx because they wanted this shit to stop. So he finally started increasing enforcement in the past year and the murder rate mostly has gone down.
Not to mention, cops don't even take down any reports for shit anymore, so any statistics are not really reflective of the reality. Literally the NYPD got caught and is being investigated by the Justice Department for not reporting rape and other sex crimes properly and getting victims to recant or not pursue.
People will point to a national trend for the drop in the 80s to 00s, but Dinkins, Giuliani, and Bloomberg did have a hand in bringing it down in NYC. That's the whole point, their policies were extremely discriminatory, like stop and frisk, but they worked. They definitely had a hand in helping, and I absolutely hated it because I would get stopped just for walking around. It doesn't mean we go back to it, but whatever this is right now isn't working and I haven't seen any real evidence that it's getting any better.
I don't like telling strangers on the internet where I live. But I live in an east coast city with higher crime than NYC. Also, I was directly reading from the NYC crime stats from:
There's no real indication that NYC tough on crime measures in the 90s/early 200s did anything because the same results were achieved everywhere at that same time, with or without stop and frisk etc. We're not really sure what did it.
I'm not saying that crime rates are acceptable in the Bronx or that they haven't gone up. What I'm saying is that most people are not proceeding based on reality. For example, the historic lows thing is not BS, it's an observable, nationwide fact. And what I'm saying is that what the places like the Bronx and Detroit have in common is extreme neglect and disinvestment from wider society, not lack of police cracking heads and making arrests. That's what needs to be fixed and that's what was worsened by the pandemic, Alvin Bragg is not the problem.
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