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]
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Very true, bfarwell. My parents packed up me and my brothers and got us out of there for that very reason. Getting robbed and shot at repeatedly gets old after a while 🙂
BHO doesn’t understand second derivatives, otherwise he’s know that the economy, jobs and home prices have already begun to strengthen.
Oh Chicago. That was the shootin’est city I’ve ever lived in.
Its well known, that crime is lagging indicator. I would focus instead on the second derivative of the murder rate.
Yes, this bit of news will keep the whole world from moving to the Capital of The World.
Mugging on Joralemon and Atkins Pl. in the late evening last week so I hear.
“Crime Rises in Brooklyn Across the Board”
No worries. We’re “recovering”.
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The absolute numbers cited in the article still sound low (obviously it sucks for the victims – not to minimize that). Robberies in the 84th precinct up to 1 per week vs 1 every two weeks last year, etc…
Wait, what does I-beam have to do with anything? What is that?
Posted by: Heather at April 5, 2010 9:48 AM
The I-Beam is what gets shoved up the asses of the retard assfucks when the Mutant Asset Bubble implodes. Don’t you know anything?