NYC Sees MASSIVE Crime Increase

I'm all in favor of a Higher crime rate. It makes the city more balanced. And come on! Those who aspire to NYC without crimes are pussies and don't belong here!

I'm with you, Sledgehammer. We need to scare off these fair-weather city dwellers back into New Jersey or Connecticut and TAKE BACK CHELSEA!!!

Wasn't there someone here who predicted nearly 2 years ago that lower housing prices would cause crime to increase? Oh yes, it was me:

alpine292
about 21 months ago
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report abuse Crime is up in NYC, just as I have predicted all along. Those who want prices to fall 50% can look forward to more increases in crime.

alpine292
about 22 months ago
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report abuse During the recessiona and the upcoming surge in crime, Harlem is the last place I would want to live.

alpine292
about 22 months ago
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report abuse wow, you people are jerks. If prices fall 50%, you'll need a bullet proof vest because the city won't have any money to pay cops to protect you. 1975 here we come!

http://streeteasy.com/nyc/talk/discussion/10316-what-will-nyc-look-like-if-prices-fall-50?comment_id=146583

Wasn't there someone who said 2 years ago that a little extra crime wasn't a bad thing? Oh yes, it was me.

Even with this increase, NYC, and Manhattan in particular, is the safest large city in the US. What you predicted was a return to the 70s and 80s, when crime was literally five times higher than now. It has not come to pass.

I do miss those 70's NYC crime back-drop movies.

From OP's article:

"At the end of 2002, the Bloomberg Administration's first year in office, murder in New York City fell below 600 for first time since 1963, and has remained below 600 since then. Overall crime is down 2% this year compared to last year's record overall low"

Socialist makes another idiotic, misleading post. Shocking . . .

"TAKE BACK CHELSEA!!!" Matthew, have you joined FALN?

Re: OP article ... we need South Africa telling us that crime is going up in NY? They could at least do a little compare/contrast with Joburg's violent crime rate.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/09/five-people-shot-on-boardwalk-in-brighton-beach

bang bang bang bang bang bang.....

6 went off, five hit.... not bad for a random shooting

Sigh. You could post such a story any year in any city no matter how much crime was up or down.

"Wasn't there someone here who predicted nearly 2 years ago that lower housing prices would cause crime to increase? Oh yes, it was me"

Uh, looks like all of your "predictions" came AFTER it happened.

Sorry, nope, try again.

It is well documented that I predicted crime would increase back when I was posting under "alpine292." Veteran SE posters know this. You were not hear back then so of course you would not know about my predictions.

"You were not hear back then" ... har har har

It's getting hot in hear, so take off all your clothes. Fking alpo. How's the borkering going you fktard?

Going ahead and admit you shoulda sold in 2007/8/9/10/11. 4 Fking yrs to grow a weiner. Hope you like your vagina. Now it's permanent.

Yeah, it would totally suck to be middle class and living in Brooklyn. Not only do you have the blacks to put up with, but also the Roman Catholics, the ... um ... I guess Jews is the polite term, the Latins, the Norwegians, Chinese people from all different provinces (Canton, Szechuan, Korean, Tibetan, Fujian, Formosan, Taiwanese, Kung Pao, etc.) and Eyetalians. Not to mention the Irish and Russians (White Russians and Black Russians alike -- the latter don't have milk).

"Not only do you have the blacks to put up with, but also the Roman Catholics, the ... um ... I guess Jews is the polite term"

Yeah, those Jews are dangerous, always getting into fights and shooting people.

> "You were not hear back then" ... har har har

LOL.

Notice how alpo has become rufus... can't afford Manhattan, doesn't know much about it, yet repeats himself a lot...

alanhart, of all the groups you listed, I have learned that the Koreans would be ones most offended. I have seen Koreans get more pissed of being referred to as Chinese than a Persian being referred to as an Arab.

@bob_d

Newsflash..."people like' you ARE racist.

typical swe, he was proven wrong, so he just spews more insults.