The Official NYC Crime Thread (Kingston, Bedford: suburban, vehicles, drive)

[njnyckid]

There was another shooting in LES yesterday: Male-shot | Ave A & East 11 St Manhattan, NY | 8/29/2009 11:09 p.m.

It hasn't reached 9 o clock and it's already getting crazy: BK has a couple of shootings already and Bronx has a double shooting. Looks like no time is being wasted.

[Elvira Black]

Originally Posted by analyticalkeys

Well, it makes sense if you think about it. Gentrification ADDS people to the neighborhood.. it doesn't, and can't take away people who live in the projects.. and I'm not saying that all people from the projects are bad, but a lot of those areas have problems with crime in the projects.. so why would this change after gentrification?

Yes, come to think of it; it adds people (esp people of more means) living cheeck to jowl with have-nots.

As for the Bronx cab shootings: I take those cabs a lot and they don't seem to have any partitions, which is puzzling and disturbing. Also they're only supposed to pick up people who call ahead, so picking up a fare can be very risky. Most of these guys are hard working immigrants. If their union is too cheap to add partitions, I don't know what to say.

[vitalove]

Originally Posted by analyticalkeys

Yea, the only thing I wanted to add is that it does take out people, but my point is there's certain people that it just can't take out.. and that includes some people who really need their housing, and some people who probably don't deserve to have housing at all.

You are assuming that the new people who've moved into the neighborhood aren't criminals. And sometimes the criminals are the only ones who can afford the high rent. I'm just saying.

[analyticalkeys]

Originally Posted by vitalove

You are assuming that the new people who've moved into the neighborhood aren't criminals. And sometimes the criminals are the only ones who can afford the high rent. I'm just saying.

You're right, I am assuming that, because the type of people who usually go for these kinds of developments are out-of-towner transplants... but you're absolutely right, those aren't the only tenants, and I'm sure some of them could be criminals, it just wasn't the first thought that comes to mind..

[vitalove]

Originally Posted by analyticalkeys

You're right, I am assuming that, because the type of people who usually go for these kinds of developments are out-of-towner transplants... but you're absolutely right, those aren't the only tenants, and I'm sure some of them could be criminals, it just wasn't the first thought that comes to mind..

It usually isn't, but it should be.

Not everyone moving in to "gentrify" a neighborhood is good. And not everyone who has already lived in the neighborhood is bad, or poor or uneducated.

Not saying you think like this. I'm just tired of people having this belief and it being passed on to future transplants. It creates further tension between the old and new residents.

[KRS88]

Anybody seen the new crime stats I almost fell out my chair laughing when I saw it lol.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloa...ics/cscity.pdf

[Infamous92]

Originally Posted by KRS88

Anybody seen the new crime stats I almost fell out my chair laughing when I saw it lol.
http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloa...ics/cscity.pdf

Moderator cut: Language they must've found another way to sweep the real stats under the rug, that's so fake how there's a big drop in everything especially when this year was more violent, these drops are fake in general.

I wish I worked for them so I could expose them then go back to being me lol.

[KRS88]

NYDN Poll results

(Yes, major crimes seem to be going up 51%) (No, there are always isolated incidents in the big city 37%) (It's hard to tell 12%)

[KRS88]

Im gonna try my hardest to keep a homicide count this week so right now I got 5 Homicides in 2 days If anyone finds a killing in the "underground newspaper dungeons" please show so we can keep a real count.

Tipster leads cops to Bronx stab slay
Two die in predawn Brooklyn mayhem
Deadly duel ends love triangle as Brooklyn woman's live-in boyfriend attacks her homeless lover
Young woman shot dead at party in Queens; wounded by gunfire in same spot months ago

Shooting | West 68 Central Park West ManhattanNY | 9/7/2009 4:32 a.m.
Shots Fired | Rogers Ave Brooklyn, NY | 9/7/2009 4:24 a.m.
Shooting | Nostrand Ave Brooklyn, NY | 9/7/2009 3:25 a.m.
Person Shot | Bedford Ave Brooklyn, NY | 9/7/2009 3:13 a.m.
Stabbing | 667 East 34 Street Brooklyn, NY | 9/7/2009 2:03 a.m.
Shots Fire | Ocean Ave & Church Ave Brooklyn, NY | 9/7/2009 1:06 a.m.
Shooting | East 163 St @ Intervale Ave Bronx, NY | 9/7/2009 12:07 a.m.
Shots Fired | 107-12 Remington St Queens, NY | 9/6/2009 10:55 p.m.
Shooting | 153st & 110 Ave Queens, NY | 9/6/2009 10:51 p.m.
Stabbing | 1561 Vyse Ave Bronx, NY | 9/6/2009 10:11 p.m.
Shooting | Atlantic Ave & Kingston Brooklyn, NY | 9/6/2009 4:52 p.m.
Shooting | 5421 Almeda Av Beach 54 St Queens, NY | 9/6/2009 2:43 p.m.
Shooting | Beach 54st & Beach Channel Queens, NY | 9/6/2009 2:12 p.m.
Shots Fired | Troutman & Wilson Brooklyn, NY | 9/6/2009 12:29 p.m.
Stabbing | Ridgewood Ave Brooklyn, NY | 9/6/2009 7:16 a.m.
Shots Fired At Police | East 95 Street @ Clarkson Ave Brooklyn, NY | 9/6/2009 7:42 a.m.
Double Shooting | 1406 Nostrand Ave Cs Martense St Brooklyn, NY | 9/7/2009 3:17 a.m.
Shots Fired | Brooklyn Ave Cs Linden Blvd Brooklyn, NY | 9/7/2009 3:20 a.m.
Stabbing | Interfaith Hosp Emergency Room Brooklyn, NY | 9/7/2009 4:41 a.m.

This is Ridiculous I havent seen so much crime in a summer since 01.

[iGlenn]

I haven't read through all 600+ posts in this thread so I apologize if this has already been discussed...

I found the link to Metropolitan Police Service - Crime mapping for London and it appears that they have a much more detailed crime statistics website then NYC. I wish we had something like this.