Crime Rises in Brooklyn Across the Board
This ain’t good. A crappy economy combined with a municipal budget crisis sounds like a recipe for a rise in crime. Sure enough, that’s what’s going on in Brooklyn right now, according to The Daily News. The number of robberies in the 84th Precinct (Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights) more than doubled in the first…
This ain’t good. A crappy economy combined with a municipal budget crisis sounds like a recipe for a rise in crime. Sure enough, that’s what’s going on in Brooklyn right now, according to The Daily News. The number of robberies in the 84th Precinct (Downtown Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights) more than doubled in the first three months of the year. In the 72nd precinct (Windsor Terrace and Sunset Park), burglaries were up 120% in the same period, and in the 67th Precinct (Flatbush) they were up 51%. “You have all these kids hanging out without jobs and it’s combustible; that and a decrease in the number of cops on the streets is a bad combination,” said City Councilwoman Letitia James. “That combination has lead to, and will lead to, an increase in violent crime.” In related news, the man accused of two rapes last month in Bed Stuy and Clinton Hill was taken into custody over the weekend.
Brooklyn Fears Crime Wave [NY Daily News]
Photo by HAKANU
Januarys? Januaries. 🙂
Sorry to fingerjack the thread.
“BHO doesn’t understand second derivatives, otherwise he’s know that…home prices have already begun to strengthen.” – DIBS @ 10:29
That’s one stat you shouldn’t believe.
http://tinyurl.com/yz3h32b
“2. On home prices, the seasonally adjusted data did indeed show an increase of 0.4% MoM (using the Case-Shiller Composite-10), but the raw data revealed a 0.2% dip — the fourth decline in a row! Now it would be one thing if January was an unusually weak seasonal month for home
prices deserving of an upward skew from the adjustment factors; however, from 1998 through to 2006, they rose in each and every January and by an average of 0.6%. But what happened is that home prices collapsed in each of the past three Januarys — by an average of 1.8%, or a 25% annual rate. And, seasonal factors typically weigh the experience of the prior three years disproportionately so what looks like steady gains in housing prices may be little more than a statistical mirage.”
a statistical mirage…a statistical mirage…a statistical mirage…
***Bid half off peak comps***
No reason for alarm. No empty crack vials littering the streets…yet…(evil villain laugh)
yeah i dont know if id be able to part with some of my bags either! personally while she may have done the right thing, as least she has her bag!
*rob*
Wow wasder – that must have been really upsetting (for both of you). Good to hear that she wasn’t hurt.
lechacal–lucky for that dude you were out of town! I know how you feel though. My wife was mugged on Bedford Ave right by the L stop in the day time once (when she was on the phone with me–I heard the muffled sounds of her being knocked to the ground) and I had a similar reaction. She wasn’t hurt thankfully but it was scary and frustrating.
To look on the bright side, the fact that an uptick in crime is noteworthy does go to show the great strides Brooklyn has made in the last 20 years. I feel confident that we are not going to see the return of anything close to the crime levels of the 80’s or early 90’s, though I lived through those days just fine too.
Yes, lech, and thankfully your wife is ok and not to sound flippant about such an awful incident, but the best part of being attacked is being able to pound the everliving sh*t out of the guy with no legal repercussions.
Well, maybe I shouldn’t say “best” part.
She did exactly what she shouldn’t have done. She just told him she wasn’t giving him her bag. And he slinked away. Textbook example of what not to do even if it ended well for her. Lucky it turns out he was just a big pussy (which let’s face it, a guy who resorts to stealing purses from women probably is, but unfortunately lots of times they’re armed and willing to do bad things). I was on my cross country trip at the time and when she told me all I wanted to do was to come home and hunt the fucker down and tear his limbs off and crush his teeth into his skull on the nearest fucking curb. Just thinking about it is filling me with rage. If I was there I would not have thought twice about breaking his arms and legs on the nearest perfectly restored wrought iron brownstone gate and turning his face into something unrecognizable.
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And for some odd reason pepperspray isnt legal in NYC.
but boric acid in a perfume jar, is. sometimes you have to think outside the box.
*rob*