Some anomalies in numbers in NYC (March, crime, compared, felonies)

[eastriver]

1. Serious crime down:
"In New York City, the area hardest hit by the outbreak, the number of serious felonies dropped 16.6% from March 16 to March 22 compared to the same period in 2019, according to The Wall Street Journal. Crime has also fallen significantly in Chicago, where homicides dropped 29% the week of March 21, the day Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker's stay-at-home order went into effect, local media reported. And Los Angeles is seeing a dip in crime compared to the previous year."
https://www.usnews.com/news/national...-crime-for-now

2. Comparatively barren streets. 99% of business presence closed.

3. Audibly verifiable reductions in siren usage throughout city.

4. But ambulance vehicle deliveries out of all proportion to even the reported scope of the problem:
"FEMA sending 250 ambulances, 500 EMTs to aid NYC with coronavirus crisis"
https://nypost.com/2020/03/31/fema-s...avirus-crisis/

5. And this, from the 'newspaper of record':
"New York City’s soundtrack has always included the sound of ambulance sirens. But now, with many of the city’s businesses closed and its neighborhoods quiet, endless wailing seems to echo through the deserted streets."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/28/n...virus-ems.html
Which is the biggest bunch of baloney. There's conspicuously, markedly less siren usage now.

[atltechdude]

I don’t think it would be a surprise for crime to fall with everyone at home and not out on the streets.

That can only go on for so long though. As the economic recession gets worse I would expect crime to rise again.

[IDoPhysicsPhD]

Actual source for the first point: https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-yor...ld-11584998470

[eastriver]

Originally Posted by atltechdude

I don’t think it would be a surprise for crime to fall with everyone at home and not out on the streets.

It also means fewer crimes involving injury--fewer reasons for an ambulance to be called for those.

[Checkmarkblue]

Originally Posted by atltechdude

I don’t think it would be a surprise for crime to fall with everyone at home and not out on the streets.

That can only go on for so long though. As the economic recession gets worse I would expect crime to rise again.

I was our and about in the south Bronx a few days ago. It looked like businesses as usual for majority of the residents there.