NYC parkgoer beaten with baseball bat in Brooklyn

[Esacni]

Originally Posted by jjbradleynyc

If you look at the NYPD data, crimes are much lower today, than they were 10-20 years ago.

There are more mentally ill on the subway, it seems. The pandemic pushed more people into homelessness too, I think.

According to the facts--some select categories from 7 major felony offenses:

Murder & Manslaughter:
the year 2000 - 673
the year 2010 - 536
the year 2020 - 468
the year 2021 - 488

Rape:
the year 2000 - 2068
the year 2010 - 1373
the year 2020 - 1427
the year 2021 - 1491

Robbery:
the year 2000 - 32,562
the year 2010 - 19,486
the year 2020 - 13,106
the year 2021 - 13,831

Burglary:
the year 2000 - 38,252
the year 2010 - 18,600
the year 2020 - 15,478
the year 2021 - 12,811

Felony Assault:
the year 2000 - 25,924
the year 2010 - 16,956
the year 2020 - 20,572
the year 2021 - 22,825

Grand Larceny of Motor Vehicle:
the year 2000 - 35,442
the year 2010 - 10,329
the year 2020 - 9,037
the year 2021 - 10,415


https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/dow...-2000-2021.pdf

There's a difference between random and targeted crime. Random crime is what matters to most people.

Furthermore, referencing 20 years ago is irrelevant. At one point, most people were making minimum wage/near minimum wage at some sort of job in HS or college. If some 50 year old is now making $200K, can you cut their salary down to $50K and tell them, "well, this is still better than minimum wage".

Increasing crime is like taking a pay cut. No one is willing to take a pay cut because 20 years ago, they were making less.

[minnomaboidenapolis]

Originally Posted by speediestevie

Is there a big city in the world where crime is virtually nonexistent?
I don’t understand the analysis above. Are we all supposed to live in fear?

Do we all have to show emotions of being shocked, appalled and dismayed to prove we don’t like crime?

Having lived in Central Europe for quite some time, I can assure you, if someone got randomly beat up in broad daylight by a loon in Berlin, Prague, Hamburg or Vienna, it would be SHOCKING and make the national news. In NYC, a "safe" city as many of you like to call it, this type of thing happens almost every day now.

So yeah, there are most certainly cities where repeat, random violent crime is nonexistent. You can thank woke democrats for this gift that keeps on giving.