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I live in Manhattan. I don't know what anarchy they are talking about. It is calm, peaceful, and beautiful here right now. I have not seen, nor heard, a prote

by cwhiz 6y ago

I live in Manhattan. I don't know what anarchy they are talking about. It is calm, peaceful, and beautiful here right now. I have not seen, nor heard, a protest since June or July? I've biked all around Manhattan and the only distressing thing I've seen is the closed storefronts and "for lease" signs plaguing city blocks. Mayor de Blasio seems intent on ruining the local economy with petty rules and restrictions.

xenospn 6y ago
They are making up their own reality. The people under their sphere of influence are absolutely positive NYC/PDX etc are burning to the ground.
aspaceman 6y ago
My grandmother called me in a panic the other day because she thought rioters burned down my neighborhood in Chicago. An hour long conversation and I still couldn’t grasp why she thought that.
- cwhiz 6y ago
  That’s the type of question I get most often. “What is the rioting like?” Well I don’t know because there hasn’t been any. Everything is peaceful and calm. People are walking around with masks and socially distancing themselves while they lounge in the park. It’s total anarchy.
zalkota 6y ago
Probably because you live in the wealthiest part. Murders are up 140% in NYC. You didn’t read the actual Washington report.
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- Grazester 6y ago
  I live in Brooklyn in a neighborhood with a demographics this administration would call rapist and criminals because they originated south of the border. But there is no anarchy here either. I do acknowledge crime is up in New York but it's not like everyone is running around the streets shooting, looting and burning things down.
- djaque 6y ago
  > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
- cwhiz 6y ago
  I did. Murders are up 50% but overall crime is flat, including overall violent crime. The percentage is misleading, too, because the raw numbers are still quite low. NYC doesn’t even crack the top 70 deadliest cities in the US. https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-s-cities/ https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-s-ci... https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/public_safety/crime-selectcities.htm https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/public_safety/crime-sele... Based on the numbers, NYC probably isn’t even in the top 200 of deadliest cities. At some point you have to switch to “safest cities” instead. Maybe the US DoJ should defund St Louis? Or maybe not because that would be idiotic and counter intuitive.
  - Fjolsvith 6y ago
    Your first source uses 2018 data. The second is from 2017 data. Try again.

by cwhiz 6y ago

xenospn 6y ago

They are making up their own reality. The people under their sphere of influence are absolutely positive NYC/PDX etc are burning to the ground.

aspaceman 6y ago

My grandmother called me in a panic the other day because she thought rioters burned down my neighborhood in Chicago. An hour long conversation and I still couldn’t grasp why she thought that.

cwhiz 6y ago
That’s the type of question I get most often. “What is the rioting like?” Well I don’t know because there hasn’t been any. Everything is peaceful and calm. People are walking around with masks and socially distancing themselves while they lounge in the park. It’s total anarchy.

zalkota 6y ago

Probably because you live in the wealthiest part. Murders are up 140% in NYC. You didn’t read the actual Washington report.

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Grazester 6y ago
I live in Brooklyn in a neighborhood with a demographics this administration would call rapist and criminals because they originated south of the border. But there is no anarchy here either. I do acknowledge crime is up in New York but it's not like everyone is running around the streets shooting, looting and burning things down.
djaque 6y ago
> Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
cwhiz 6y ago
I did. Murders are up 50% but overall crime is flat, including overall violent crime. The percentage is misleading, too, because the raw numbers are still quite low. NYC doesn’t even crack the top 70 deadliest cities in the US. https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-s-cities/ https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/murder-map-deadliest-u-s-ci... https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/public_safety/crime-selectcities.htm https://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/public_safety/crime-sele... Based on the numbers, NYC probably isn’t even in the top 200 of deadliest cities. At some point you have to switch to “safest cities” instead. Maybe the US DoJ should defund St Louis? Or maybe not because that would be idiotic and counter intuitive.
- Fjolsvith 6y ago
  Your first source uses 2018 data. The second is from 2017 data. Try again.