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]
Harry, typical case of correlation that doesn’t imply cause and effect. Urban people tend to vote Democrat.
Sebb,
All compstat will do is drive all the commanders crazy like it always does. The PD will be made to do more with less and until the PD keeps up its hiring as it should the crime will go up. Or until the whole city is gentrified.
Gee, Benson, you don’t like Dinkins, do you?
But 1) to use your term, “technically” crime did start to go down under his administration and 2) Giuliani won by about 50,000 votes the first time he was elected, a small majority, thanks to Staten Island.
NOP
“And safety is a relative thing. Today’s stats are similar to what I remember as a boy in Brooklyn around 1960 — when everyone thought the city was spiraling out of control!”
Thanks, NOP. I’m not in favor of crime, but some of these complaints make me laugh. Today’s NYC is so much safer than when I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, it’s laughable. If you’d have asked us back then if we could ever imagine a mostly clean NYC with a visible police presence even in tough neighborhoods, we’d never have believed it. NYC and Brooklyn have always been rough-and-tumble. What a bunch of crybabies.
benson, great post.
do think park slope attracts the more frat boy, middle of the road types, and binge drinking is their thing for sure. BRG is right on the money about the lack of hipness.
Well put benson.
“lol. Is that you in the picture with the funnel?”
No, if that were me, the funnel would be going in the opposite end.
NOP;
Aw come on, you’re REALLY stretching here. Spin it as you wish, but here are some of the facts:
-Dinkins was forced to act because folks were fed up with him, not because he responded to a need. The Democrat establishment knew that he was a disaster, and read him the riot act. Remember his inept response to the boycott of the Korean green grocer, in which he allowed a bunch of racist thugs to take control of the situation for 1.5 weeks? Even the NYT was outraged over his lack of action.
-Shall we talk about his response to the Crown Heights riots, were he let thugs roam the street unimpeded for 3 nights?
-How about his response to the murder of a utah tourist on the subway platform? Remember how that helped the city’s image? Somehow, he couldn’t find the time to visit the grieving family, but he did manage to find the time to stand next to the mother of a convicted drug dealer and shout to the crowd “Justice will be served”. Remember his embarassment when the police tapes revealed that the cop in that case was in a life-and-death struggle, as this drug dealer was trying to wrest his gun from him and kill him?
-Saying that crime dropped on his watch is the same silly “news” like the above-referenced articles. Bloomberg achieves a record low crime rate, and when it goes up the next year, the Post has the breathless headline “Murder rate skyrockets”. Using your logic, would you say that crime began its “increase” under Bloomberg? Please, give me a break.
-Spin Giuliani’s election as you will, but the fact is this: he was elected for a second term (unlike Dinkins) in an overwhlemingly Democratic city, AND, a Democrat has not gained the mayoralty since that time, thanks to David “Tennis Anyone?” Dinkins.