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This is the shooting on Loring PL I told you about earlier.
"Bronx: 2287 Loring Pl N ESU Being requested forthwith in regards to a male shot, Active crime scene. 15 People shot in NYC so far."
183rd street has been busy, because the homicide on Davidson, the above shooting on Loring, and this one on the Grand Concourse all happened on 183rd street, in the span of a couple of days.
"Bronx: 2230 Grand Concourse NYPD on scene with a female shot, EMS will transport, Crime scene being established."
Why are you comparing a borough of 2.5 million to one of 1.3 million? What those numbers tell me is that the Bronx per capita has been bloodier. So, it has been a city crime wave this past week.
The article mentioned raw numbers increase in 2012 from 2011, and where did the raw number increase come from? BROOKLYN. If you compare the Bronx in 2012 vs 2011, it is a negligible increase that week (and reduction in murders)...if you look at Brooklyn from 2012 vs 2011, it is clearly driving almost all of the crime increase.
You can discuss per capita crime...but that's not what the article is about. It simply compares 2012 vs 2011, and Brooklyn was almost 100% of the increase in NYC crime YOY for the week. So the reality is, there was not a big crime wave in NYC, there was a big crime wave in Brooklyn, and the article proves it.
That's the difference between a "scary headline" (NYC crime wave!) and facts (Brooklyn's crime accounts for all of the increase). If Brooklyn's shootings/murders were the same as last year, there would be no article or story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The article mentioned raw numbers increase in 2012 from 2011, and where did the raw number increase come from? BROOKLYN. If you compare the Bronx in 2012 vs 2011, it is a negligible increase that week (and reduction in murders)...if you look at Brooklyn from 2012 vs 2011, it is clearly driving almost all of the crime increase.
You can discuss per capita crime...but that's not what the article is about. It simply compares 2012 vs 2011, and Brooklyn was almost 100% of the increase in NYC crime YOY for the week. So the reality is, there was not a big crime wave in NYC, there was a big crime wave in Brooklyn, and the article proves it.
That's the difference between a "scary headline" (NYC crime wave!) and facts (Brooklyn's crime accounts for all of the increase). If Brooklyn's shootings/murders were the same as last year, there would be no article or story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So when the Bronx has a bad week, do you say the same thing?
Firstly, you mentioned the "staggering" violence across NYC, then continued to give some Bronx examples. I simply corrected you to note that the Bronx is basically flat for the week vs last year, and it was in fact a Brooklyn crime spree, not the Bronx, which was the "staggering" violence. It was not across NYC, it was not across the Bronx, it was solely in Brooklyn.
Secondly, I don't need to mention anything bad about the Bronx, because then you would have no purpose on city-data. I don't want to send you to the city-data unemployment line...not in this economy.
Well to be fair it was the housing projects in Chelsea, so it's no different than the usual BK/BX/Harlem shootings.
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