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Yeah but everywhere can't be good in a city so I hope you realize that. That's one of the primary issues of living in a city. It's not like people are traveling from the South Bronx to the South Shore of Staten Island to commit home invasions. So if you live close to a high crime area - that's what you gotta deal with. Or you can move. As long as you have a significant part of the population that is in poverty, you will have crime. If you live closer to them, you see more of it.
Moving is an option, and if crime is on the upwards trajectory, I'm right there behind 85dumbo out to the 'burbs.
Another option is to gentrify the crap out of these areas and push the poverty out of the city. I look forward to the day Bushwick is just like Williamsburg and Bed-Stuy like Park Slope.
Speaking from a "high-crime" area, I can attest that the worst and biggest crime going on around here right now is mail theft - employees of the Manhattanville Post Office on 125th Street.
There is a major movement, lawsuit against USPS ...? who knows what will come of it. People are beyond angry and fed up, packages missing about 75% of the time with falsified records claiming delivery when none was made. I invite anyone to engage the supervisors in a phone conversation. It's quite an experience. Really dumb people trying to cover up what is obviously a whole lot of corruption. This has been going on for years. It ebbs a bit when there is an investigation and peaks whenever there is not.
While most violent crimes strictly speaking may occur between the people in this environment who know each other, this is just one fun product of said environment that is visited on everyone else.
New neighborhood folk ? Take note. It's all true, as anyone will tell you. Not getting your mail gets old.
I think the city only has 15 more murders YTD than last year (de Blasio was mayor then as well), if the rest of the year goes well, this year can easily have less murders than last year.
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