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I lived on LI for 30 years and am now in Las Vegas. I follow Newsday on FB and saw a headline that read Nassau police were investigating 2 burglaries in the county. Is crime really THAT low? According to the Las Vegas police crime map, we had 288 burglaries this past week alone and none of them made the news. Population is a little higher in Vegas than Nassau, but still. I don't know if the Nassau crime map is accurate but it stated only 98 burglaries for the whole year. Are home invasions really that rare there?
No. It is much higher than that.
Only a small portion of stuff makes it to the news. Crime is out of control in Nassau. Mostly silly stuff like burglaries, theft, vandalism, domestics,
muggings, etc...murder is still kinda low I guess aside from the gang stuff and occassional serial killer. Oh and murder for hire plots, they seem to be on an upswing.
Nassau's crime rate is much lower than Vegas'. Vegas is a tourist city where people go to flash their money around, go out, wander and drink. Gamble. Transiency, ect. That is the perfect recipe for crime. If you want to compare, compare your suburban area to Nassau.
No. It is much higher than that.
Only a small portion of stuff makes it to the news. Crime is out of control in Nassau. Mostly silly stuff like burglaries, theft, vandalism, domestics,
muggings, etc...murder is still kinda low I guess aside from the gang stuff and occassional serial killer. Oh and murder for hire plots, they seem to be on an upswing.
Really? Can you back that up with some facts? links? All of Nassau or just where you live?
No. It is much higher than that.
Only a small portion of stuff makes it to the news. Crime is out of control in Nassau. Mostly silly stuff like burglaries, theft, vandalism, domestics,
muggings, etc...murder is still kinda low I guess aside from the gang stuff and occassional serial killer. Oh and murder for hire plots, they seem to be on an upswing.
Can you post where you got that info from? According to Mangano and law enforcement, crime is down
Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano and Police Commissioner Thomas Krumpter today announced a new crime fighting predictive analysis that not only helps stop crimes before they occur but that has also contributed to a reduction in Major Crime of 13.16% year-to-date. This reduction in crime is on top of the 10% crime reduction that has taken place since County Executive Mangano took office in 2010.
Since the inception of STRAT-COM in January 2014, major crimes have decreased more than thirteen percent and directed patrols have affected over 100 arrests of targeted subjects. Several Major crime issues have been solved in the first few months of operation. This impressive first step proves that STRAT-COM will continue to evolve into an invaluable law enforcement tool that will maintain Nassau County’s decreasing crime rate well into the twenty-first century.
I lived on LI for 30 years and am now in Las Vegas. I follow Newsday on FB and saw a headline that read Nassau police were investigating 2 burglaries in the county. Is crime really THAT low? According to the Las Vegas police crime map, we had 288 burglaries this past week alone and none of them made the news. Population is a little higher in Vegas than Nassau, but still. I don't know if the Nassau crime map is accurate but it stated only 98 burglaries for the whole year. Are home invasions really that rare there?
How can you compare crime concentrated to a 135 sq mile city with a 453 sq mile county made up of a few cities and hamlets?
I lived on LI for 30 years and am now in Las Vegas. I follow Newsday on FB and saw a headline that read Nassau police were investigating 2 burglaries in the county. Is crime really THAT low? According to the Las Vegas police crime map, we had 288 burglaries this past week alone and none of them made the news. Population is a little higher in Vegas than Nassau, but still. I don't know if the Nassau crime map is accurate but it stated only 98 burglaries for the whole year. Are home invasions really that rare there?
Yes home invasions are very rare in Nassau, and if you do them, you're going to need a time machine or to become immortal to ever see the outside again in your lifetime because they don't fool around here with home invaders AT ALL. Example:
Levy Robinson, 46, of Jamaica, Queens, was sentenced to 55 years in prison by County Court Judge David Sullivan, along with five years of post-release supervision. After a three-week trial, he was convicted in March on several charges, including robbery, burglary, assault, criminal possession of a weapon, unlawful imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child. The jury found him guilty of 14 felonies and 11 misdemeanors.
Levy Robinson was not even the mastermind of the crime; it was actually a relative of the victims. (How low can you go?):
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A third suspect, 25-year-old Varinder Singh of North Valley Stream, was also arrested for his involvement in planning the home invasion. He pleaded guilty last year to several charges and was sentenced to seven years in prison.
If you watch reality live action crime shows on TV, also note Nassau and Suffolk DO NOT get on these shows often. I only saw Nassau (Long Beach) once on a crime show and it was "Speeders." Unlike other large suburban areas, producers of "Cops," "Police Women of ______," "The First 48," etc., do not produce shows here. There is not enough action around here and would make for BORING TV shows.
Nassau (and Suffolk) also always place highly in surveys of "the safest places in America." Here's one survey:
The top 20 safest communities to live among the large metro areas are:
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1. Boise City-Nampa, Idaho
2. Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, Maine
3. Las Vegas-Paradise, Nevada
4. Honolulu, Hawaii
5. Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Roseville, California
6. Scranton-Wilkes-Barre-Hazelton, Pennsylvania
7. San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, California
8. Bethesda-Gaithersburg-Frederick, Maryland
9. Syracuse, New York
10. Santa Ana-Anaheim-Irvine, California
11. El Paso, Texas
12. Albany-Troy-Schenectady, New York
13. Rochester, New York
14. Buffalo-Niagara Falls, New York
15. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks- Ventura, California
16. Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, New York 17. Nassau-Suffolk, New York
18. Harrisburg-Carlisle, Pennsylvania
19. Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Connecticut.
20. New Haven-Milford, Connecticut.
Also note that Paradise, NV ranked well up there. So, as other people already said, Las Vegas' suburban areas are not as bad as you think!
I have family on the "force" aka public dime. I get all the inside scoop on what is really going on. Stats are skewed for numerous and obvious reasons so don't believe the hype. They also use creative license when they make these announcements that crime is down.
Maybe violent crime is down but robberies may be up. They wont tell you the part about which crime is down they will generalize. Which when called out on stuff like this they can actually claim they didn't lie.
I have family on the "force" aka public dime. I get all the inside scoop on what is really going on. Stats are skewed for numerous and obvious reasons so don't believe the hype. They also use creative license when they make these announcements that crime is down.
Maybe violent crime is down but robberies may be up. They wont tell you the part about which crime is down they will generalize. Which when called out on stuff like this they can actually claim they didn't lie.
I'm actually more scared of getting run over or t-boned by a car than getting mugged, so even if certain crimes are in fact up, I still feel relatively safe in most of Nassau.
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