UWS Crime!

This area, as much everybody say it's safe, it is not. Especially at night..

Almost bought in the upper 90 on the west 2 years ago, walked in the neigborhood at night, didn't feetl safe and walk out from the offer.

Other recent events on UWS:

1. Teens wanted in robberies and assaults: http://www.westsiderag.com/2013/10/10/teens-wanted-in-robberies-assaults-on-uws
2. Television tossed from homeless shelter: http://www.westsiderag.com/2013/10/10/television-tossed-from-95th-street-homeless-shelter

Let's hope this isn't the beginning of a trend.

Vote Lhota. Vote Early, Vote often!

I would have voted for Catsimitedes, but I guess Lhota is next best

DO NOT VOTE FOR DE BLASIO!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!! our streets will be incredible unsafe under him

vote DeBlasio, bring back the edge to NY and get rid of these morons who moved into the city in past 10-15 years.

let's get back to mugging, killing, parties in public parks, raunchy 42nd street. this city is not the same since it was sanitized for the rich folks to live anywhere on the island.

The events of a few weeks hardly make a trend, but I have noticed the upswing recently in incidents of violence by the (likely mentally ill) homeless. E.g. the much publicized stabbings in Riverside Park, attempted assault in Ft Tryon Park, several episodes in which people were assaulted by panhandlers...hopefully just a blip. But it does make me realize all over again how complacent we have become about the safety of living in NYC.

Is it me, or is it getting significantly more violent these last few months?

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It's you. While any crime incident is one too many, I don't see the anecdotal links as representing anything of a trend or the start of anything worrisome.

from the aisles of fairway?

But there has been an uptick in grey trolls. I expect another one in a moment.

what do you base that on?

A little troll, a little crime. All part of what makes us New York (or C0lumbia C0unty as the case may be). Stop whining (to much)

what the fuck does that mean?

C0C0 wipe your hands before you type.

FieldChesterHunterscintersbergerhfscomm1matsonjones....go for it.

your keyboard got stuck again. Anyway, go for what?

greensburgerdalehfscomm1...you know.

C0C0, try one of those compressed air cans

so sorry to hear of your loss.

C0C0, CAUTION, DO NOT point it at your face. I repeat, do not point it at your face and inhale. The compressed air is for our keyboard.

how far overseas are you?

Generally I prefer around 5th avenue.

so...

yet another lie.

figures.

watch your figure C0C0, the "Mrs." C0C0 doesn't want you putting on those kilograms no more.

getting boring.

http://nypost.com/2013/10/14/no-murders-this-week-in-nyc/

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Quiet before the storm?

Just saying..

The last crime wave lasted from about 1968 to 1995. Does anyone who lived in NYC at the time remember some of the early signs, pre-1968? Did the city make any policy changes in the years leading up to the crime wave that might have contributed to it?

The best historical stats that I could find are at http://www.disastercenter.com/crime/nycrime.htm. I think it is for all of NY state, but it covers 1965 to 2012 and breaks the crimes out by category.

Crime is up in every category except murder over the past year or so. NYPD has all their stats on line. Crime went up under Dinkins because the police stopped arresting due to the Dinkins administration encouraging the community to file complaints against officers, then benching the officers when complaints came in. Fast forward to now, where DeBlasio is anti-police (the only union who did not support him), and the city counsel passes a law allowing patrolmen to be personally sued. Guess what the response of the PBA is? They've told officers not to arrest unless they personally see a crime being committed or they or someone in their line of vision is in danger of immediate physical harm.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/html/crime_prevention/crime_statistics.shtml

I don't understand why DeBlasio won. Don't people remember what the city was like in the high crime days? Don't people care?

crime in London: http://trutube.tv/video/6178/Savage-attacks-White-Woman-Brings-knock-out-game-to-London-
coming to Jersey city: http://newsone.com/2767634/knockout-game-new-jersey/
and New York City: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/alleged-assaults-rock-crown-heights-article-1.1514604

"I don't understand why DeBlasio won. Don't people remember what the city was like in the high crime days? Don't people care?"

Yes, we do.

And yes, we care.

And yes, we want it back to the way it was.

I'll take the periodic muggings, crackheads, and hookers -- along with the NEW YORK that I moved to in the first place, which had a vibrant middle class, REAL coffeehouses, diners everywhere, and block after block after block of independent retail over this gilded and sanitized playground for the 1%.

The New York you moved to didn't have you in it before you showed up. So if we want to go back to the way things were, you'll have to leave too. Pittsburgh has diners if you need them.

"I don't understand why DeBlasio won. Don't people remember what the city was like in the high crime days? Don't people care?"

ScaredNYCgal, of course people *care*, but as things are the middle class can't afford to live in the city *at all*. When it's a question of having to worry a little more about crime or not being able to even live in the city, you'll take a slightly dangerous city.

I myself think the '90s were the sweet spot. I remember a delightful NY Post headline around New Year's Eve in which they were celebrating a year with less than 1000 murders by showing an odometer in the 950s that clearly wasn't going to roll over to 1000.

Right, as 000 says, a few more murders a week are fine, as long as they are not in areas like Bryant Park.

>> When it's a question of having to worry a little more about crime or not being able to even live in the city, you'll take a slightly dangerous city.

Why are the two mutually exclusive? Do we not trust lower income people to not commit crimes? Does diversity yield more crime?

Therez u iz! Heil field hamster. Funny you aren't so keen on making fun of the fictitious bravado of w67? Por que?

Does the reality of the world outside of SE scare u little one? Come to her defenses team RE! Or did w67 drive out all the real posters of SE so that it'd be herr field hamster and myself as I always planned. Trollings not fun with just us two, eh?

Your turn.... Little bushy one. Your turn.

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Ooops. One too many.

Let's try that again.

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Come on you fking bitch. I'm bored. Give me something to get pissed off at. You dirty dried out cunt.

Ok. That was fun.

Come on fieldchester. I can make SE just for you and I. You'd like that you dirty whore.

Wha Wha? No response. Come on. Bring the troll.

Later gotta take a shit.

Everything come out ok w67? Did you wife smell anything funny?

What r u 7yo? Ok ok. W67 will wait till you get some hair down there. Now go on run along child.

Another Snicker's bar for your son?