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]
Binge Drinkers in Park Slope are:
Hopeless, hapless and definetely lacking hipness.
Or is that true of all residents of Park Slope?
When I go out in Park Slope bars it’s complete mayhem. Locals drink for hours and hours nonstop.
By midnight everyone is hammered, slurring, and often upchucking in the street.
I have a strong feeling many of you folks haven’t been out much lately.
Agree Harry. Philadelphia is THE poster child for ineffective governance at the mayoral, district attorney, attorney general (all liberal democrats) and police level. Crime there is out of control yet they continue to be totally ineffective.
harry,
how do you explain the better part of a decade of decreasing crime under Bloomberg? Was he a republican then, and only a democrat now that crime might be ticking up?
Overall the crime rate in NYC is on the way up. Ever notice that all the major cities with the highest crime rates are run by Democrats, if u don’t believe me check it out. Detroit, Baltimore, Wash DC. Los Angeles, Newark to name a few. It wasn’t until Guliani came to NYC things turned around, I know because Im a retired NYPD Detective. Now with the rise in crime in NYC we have our Mayor Bloomberg, who is a democrat at heart and changed his party just to be elected. All my fiends who are still on the job tell me crime could get to where it was if we don’t maintain the Guliani-Bratton Strategy. It appears though that Ray Kelly is helpless because of the cuts being made in the Police Dept.and the focus on Terrorism. Safe Streets and effective Law Enforcement requires money, especially in a city like NY if Bloomberg does not allocate more for Law Enforcement we could go back to the “Good Ole Days”.
I have seen those binge drinkers flipping Bugaboos. It was horrible. All the while they were yelling “Stroller Nazis are here, get use to it”
Sorry meant to say – you CANT reclassify a dead body
FSRQ;
Agreed. These articles are just plain silly, and not even worth a serious discussion.
The only truly reliable crime statistic is murder (and felony assaults where someone is hit with a bullet – but this isnt broken out generally). Yuo can reclassify a dead body or hide it.
Therefore the SMALL increase in homicides is worthy of note but it is still up only 5% (from a record year in ’07) and 2008 was still one of the safest on record.
The fact that homicides are up in Brooklyn So ( one of the safest patrol bureaus) may indicate that the NYPD is strapped by sending additional resources into Brooklyn North (for example) – NYPD is down over 5,000 officers since its peak.
or it could indicate nothing. again overall 2008 was an amazingly safe year for a city of 8+M people.
And seriously this post shouldnt dissolve into a argument of race and class – given that Brooklyn So – is whiter and richer than Brooklyn North