Murders, Binge Drinking Up in Park Slope Last Year
While overall crime was down in Brooklyn South last year, murders were up more than 35 percent to 92 from 68 a year earlier. Such was the case in Park Slope where the number of homicides rose from one in 2007 to three in 2008. Meanwhile, says The Post, binge drinking was higher than other…
While overall crime was down in Brooklyn South last year, murders were up more than 35 percent to 92 from 68 a year earlier. Such was the case in Park Slope where the number of homicides rose from one in 2007 to three in 2008. Meanwhile, says The Post, binge drinking was higher than other neighborhoods around the city: 20 percent of Slopers ranked binge drinking as their favorite activity. “It’s the real people, and you feel like you are on ‘Cheers,'” said Samantha Stewart. “I can just go to the bar and see 10 people that I know.” The preference ties in with another borough-wide stat for 2008: Drunk driving violations were up 1.6 percent in Brooklyn last year, reports The Daily News, while they were down 3.4 percent around the city as a whole.
Murder Rate Skyrockets in 2008 [NY Post]
Home Is Where the Health Is [NY Post]
Increase in Brooklyn Drunk Driving [NYDN]
Dinkins was the Jimmy Carter of NYC mayors. Well meaning but ineffectual. Perceptions rule in politics.
Really BRG – that was funny, huh?!?!?!!? Accusing someone of being a racist is funny in your book?? I guess I should expect it, coming from someone who wouldn’t think twice about accusing a particular person of fraud in a publci forum. Yeah, it’s riot. Well, Biff even thinks that we should make it QOTD.
Screw the both of you. I’m out of this forum.
Denton: happy that your below-the belt shot is receiving accolades?
Denton…that was VERY FUNNY!!
Denton;
Thank you for trying to make this become ugly and racially charged. Thanks for stooping to that level.
My criticsm of Dinkins was based upon the way he ran this city, per the facts I outlined above. If you disagree, try to make the case in a factual way, rather than make it ugly like this.
In case you have forgotten, I’ll let you know the background of the “tennis” comment. If you recall, that tourist from Utah was murdered on the subway platform when he was returning from the US Open. During the next few days, Mayor Dinkins never found the time to visit his grieving family, YET, he had time to take in the US Open.
I have nothing further to say to someone who hits below the belt.
Nokilissa;
You really don’t do your side any favors with posts like the one above.
Please leave race out of this. Nobody mentioned it in the previous posts. Are you implying that the fact that he was NYC’s first and only black mayor makes him immune from criticism? How patronizing is that??
Also, no one here is criticizing his intentions. I found Dinkins to be a pleasant person and a gentleman. We are talking about results here, and in that regard, he was a failure.
Please respond to the factual points FSRQ and I made. Did you feel safe when Dinkins was in charge? Did the vile Korean green grocer situation continue unabated for 1.5 weeks? Did he let the Crown Heights riots run unimpeded for 3 days, until his own Commissioner of Public Safety (Mollen) sat him and his police commissioner in a chair and read them the riot act? Did he not stand next to the mother of the convicted drug-dealer and potential cop-killer, Jose “Kiko” Garcia, and announce to a surly crowd “Justice will be served” and made the citizens of NYC pay for this thug’s funeral? Did, or did not crime peak under his watch?
To say that Giuliani (and, for that matter, Bloomberg) were not effective in realizing double-digit percentage decreases in crime is just not reality. The statistics are there, plain as day. If you want to deny the reality of the situation, folks will know who is talking fact, and who is spinning because of their ideology. I readily acknowledged above that Dinkins initiated the increase in the police force. Why can’t you acknowledge the reality of Giuliani’s contribution?
No, thank YOU, Denton. Geez. We have such a short and romantic memory when it comes to Guiliani. I truly and painfully hated him at the time. The complaints to the Civilian Review Board went up something like 500% under his watch. He mercilessly slashed budgets of any program having to do with children or poor people. Many of them, some really really doing good things, folded within 2 years. He treated anyone who disagreed with him as a peasant. He cheated on his wife countless times, and she learned of his intention to divorce her via a press conference. I mean, I know those things are private, and I don’t ordinarily care much where any guy other than my husband sticks his “hoo hoo”, but that was ridiculous, and showed the kind of character flaws for which I think we all shredded our late governor.
“It always fascinates me the amount of anger a black man receives because he happens to like tennis.”
Quote of the Day.
Thank you Noklissa. Dinkins’ strategies in fact were responsible for the beginning of the decline in crime. Had he been re-elected, he would have got more credit.
Since he’s getting slammed for not cracking down on rioting, I’ll join the party by slamming him for not cracking down on the infamous police riot at City Hall.
It always fascinates me the amount of anger a black man receives because he happens to like tennis. People still hating on him for that today! What was happening when Ghouliani was out banging his two different girlfriends (while he was still married, I might add) with protection furnished by the taxpayer.
We paid a high price for some of that reduction in crime under Ghoulaini. The price was paid in race relations as minorities were stopped and searched constantly and for no reason. Thank goodness Bloomberg elected to keep the good efforts developed by his predecessors while attempting to reach out to the city as a whole.
I cannot stand by as this thread is hijacked by conservative ideology, criticizing NYC’s first and only black mayor, who tried desperately to change things for the better. He was very well intentioned, albeit pummeled by bad timing, a belief system (his own) that harmed his ability to implement necessary changes, and shifting priorities. Love or hate David Dinkins, he was not responsible for any surge in lawlessness. AND love or hate Guiliani, he was likewise not responsible for the City’s plummeting crime rates – though to hear him tell it, he was practically the left hand of God both here and with his “heroic” handling of 9/11.
Anyway, off to Wiki:
“He (Dinkins) was hurt by the perception that crime was out of control during his administration, although crime actually declined during the last 36 months of his four-year term, ending a 30 year upward spiral and initiating a trend of falling rates that continued well beyond his term.[2][3] Dinkins also initiated a hiring program that expanded the police department nearly 25%.”