Double-Digit Increase in Clinton Hill Crime Rate
The Daily News reports that there’s been a big jump in crimes in Clinton Hill so far this year, a rise that’s partially being blamed on a lack of fresh blood at the local precinct. The NYPD has recorded a 24 percent increase in robberies and a 43 percent jump in car theft in Clinton…
The Daily News reports that there’s been a big jump in crimes in Clinton Hill so far this year, a rise that’s partially being blamed on a lack of fresh blood at the local precinct. The NYPD has recorded a 24 percent increase in robberies and a 43 percent jump in car theft in Clinton Hill compared to this time last year. While four officers were scheduled to leave the 88th Precinct this year, the station got no new officers from the graduating Police Academy class; an NYPD source told the paper that new recruits are being assigned to cover the Atlantic Terminal Mall rather than joining the precinct. “You get the feeling that [the attacks are] brazen, and people don’t think they will be caught,” said one resident. “If you had police either in their cars or walking up and down the street, it wouldn’t happen.” Councilperson Letitia James says the rise in crimes is “very, very scary,” and some residents are spearheading a letter-writing campaign to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly asking that the NYPD assign more officers to the neighborhood.
Clinton Hill Quaking in Crime Wave [NY Daily News]
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7604 people live in Bloomingdale, New Jersey.
Are you REALLY comparing that to a borough of almost 2.5 million people?
Surely even YOU are not that ignorant.
Your post is ABSURD!!!
Invest in NJ real estate? Are you kidding? So I can pay 20K a year in taxes to fund a bankrupt state, or better yet…kill myself from boredom from the all of 7000 people in the town.
No thanks.
Prices in NJ are tumbling so fast, people are clearly getting REALLY desperate.
You work with the What?
“You have a real sense of entitlement and a complete and utter lack of understanding how life works if you think people think it’s because they’re black.”
The problem is that the kids doing it, regardless of their race, have a sense of entitlement. They se someone has something and they want it. They don’t recognize that the car owner who has something has it because they worked for it. That’s a self-entitled attitude. It’s not self-entitled to think that if you pay your mortgage and car payments you should get to keep you stuff and be safe on the streets.
I dont put much stock into non-homicide crime stats especially over a short period of time (could simply be new Brass not willing to downgrade everything to a trespass or a petit larceny) BUT – Robbery is a very serious crime and quite scary and while who knows if these trends really mean anything – trying to make them out to be a bunch of white people scared for their cars is exactly the kind of purposeful indifference that allows crime to grow –
Somehow the label ‘Creep’ just doesn’t go with the thug tone of the warning. What exactly would “we” do if “we” got to him/her first? Just asking.
To whoever thinks crime is worse in the New Jersey suburbs, here are some common stats:
Crime statistics for Rutherford, NJ:
Murders: 0
Rapes: 0
Robberies: 0
Crime rate: 86 (US Average: 388). Ridiculously below average crime rate in a huge town full of 19th century Victorians about 15 minutes to Manhattan.
deep suburbs
Blomingdale, NJ:
Murders: 0
Rapes: 0
Robberies: 0
Assaults: 0
Crime rate: 52 (US Average: 388)
There’s a reason why everyone escaped to the suburbs, etc., when things in Brooklyn got bad. My tip: invest in Jersey real estate. The crime’s only going to get worse in NYC because of the huge economic disparity that’s absolutely crushing the “other half”.
People assume crime’s going to go up because the economy is going to shit, poor and working class people are struggling to even afford food, and they’re surrounded by some of the wealthiest people in the world. What do you think is going to happen?
You have a real sense of entitlement and a complete and utter lack of understanding how life works if you think people think it’s because they’re black.
This assumption that crime rates are going to skyrocket seems to stem from a racist generalization that black people are dying to take things and hurt white people.
Get over yourselves, people!
In reality, cars get broken into when they are not seen, and this happens when the blocks have less mixed-use buildings.
This has nothing to do with the economy. The losers who commit these crimes wouldn’t work even if they were handed a $40/hour union job – it’s that simple.
So, Letitia James finds this increase “very, very scary”? I have every faith that she will continue to spend the bulk of her time protesting any and every condo building rather than address this bread-and-butter issue.
This post reminds me of how wonderful it is to not own a car in NYC.
I posted on here before about the increasing crime in Brooklyn, and I was laughed at. “HURRRR< its safer than ever here!!!!" If you actually walk around Brooklyn it seriously feels different compared to the last couple of years.