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Crime is down in major metro areas all over the world since the start of the pandemic. The tangible erosion of public safety is unique to the U.S. I've lived i
by chitowneats 5y ago
Crime is down in major metro areas all over the world since the start of the pandemic. The tangible erosion of public safety is unique to the U.S.
I've lived in both NYC and Chicago in the past decade. The rapid changes in both cities are quite alarming and no amount of hand waving about 5-30 year time frames is going to make people feel better about the sharp reversal that has occurred in the past 18 months.
- jonahbenton 5y agoSimply false. For all intents and purposes, stranger to stranger crime was virtually zero before the pandemic and is virtually zero now.
- chitowneats 5y agoUsually I would ask for a source for such an outlandish claim. This has not been my personal experience in NYC. Your use of "for all intents and purposes" and "virtually" are doing quite a bit of heavy lifting.
- regnull 5y agoHaha, yeah. "For all intents and purposes", "virtually", and don't forget the weird "stranger on stranger". Perhaps if the perpetrator knows you, it makes it better?
- Schiendelman 5y agoStranger on stranger is a normal way to segment crime. It controls out things that aren’t putting you at risk.
- regnull 5y agoShould be easy to find out using a google search, no? Here you go: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statistics/cs-en-us-city.pdf https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/crime_statist... Total crimes, 2020: 1817, 2021: 2268 Quite a bit of an increase. 2021 is not over yet.
- geoffpado 5y agoI'm not really trying to counter-argue your point, just clarify, but… isn't that the one-week stats? The YoY stats are 2020: 87,608 vs 2021: 90,362.
- ben_jones 5y agoAnd that's WITH lockdowns and a way fewer people on the streets in 2020. Of course 2021 would be higher with vaccinations.
- jjeaff 5y agoSo on track for maybe a 4% increase. Doesn't quite look like crisis to me. Of course, breakdowns of the type of crime might be helpful. It wouldn't take much of a single type of crime (like assault related to mask/anti-mask or something of that nature to cause a jump).
- dilyevsky 5y agoIt sure will be zero when cops never show up to take a report (or just stop being called in bc of that the above)