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"Manhattan was ransacked" is total hyperbole and absurd. The whole island of Manhattan was ransacked? Of what? When, exactly? You know Manhattan is a really b
by walrus01 5y ago
"Manhattan was ransacked" is total hyperbole and absurd. The whole island of Manhattan was ransacked? Of what? When, exactly? You know Manhattan is a really big place, right? Have you been there?
As to the "letting up on drug prosecutions", in the Reagan-esque war on drugs, the Drugs won that war a long time ago. Maybe it's time to start treating serious drug addiction (meth, coke, heroin, etc) as a mental health crisis instead. Turns out that it actually costs a lot of money each year to keep a person incarcerated, and when they get turned loose back into society without addressing the underlying metal health and addiction issues, it just repeats in a loop.
- adam_arthur 5y agoPretty easy to Google images of retail in Manhattan. Huge percentage of stores were vandalized and had their goods stolen. Here you go: https://www.google.com/search?q=manhattan+2020+protest+retail+looting&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjr_aWgm7f1AhVvCZ0JHd6CD4kQ2-cCegQIABAC&oq=manhattan+2020+protest+retail+looting&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzoHCCMQ7wMQJzoFCCEQqwI6BAghEApQvAVYviBgtiFoAHAAeACAAaoBiAGCDpIBBDE2LjSYAQCgAQHAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=wY3kYauZLe-S9PwP3oW-yAg&bih=679&biw=393&prmd=nisxv https://www.google.com/search?q=manhattan+2020+protest+retai... There was effectively no police response for the first few days and each night looting got worse. Eventually the police mobilized and normalized the situation
- tedunangst 5y agoInstead of saying huge percentage, why not just tell us the number?
- adam_arthur 5y agoWhy don't you Google it and report back? I lived there at the time, it was very widespread and pretty much universal across mid-lower manhattan. Anyway, I saved you the trouble: "An estimated 450 businesses across New York City were vandalized and in some cases looted in late May and early June, according to the city's Department of Small Business Services." Don't need the stats to back it up if you were there to see it though.
- camjw 5y ago0.2% is a huge percentage?
- adam_arthur 5y agoWell, how are you computing it? Majority of looting was in retail businesses in lower Manhattan. If you're computing overall number of businesses in New York then you're just being disingenuous. So you're counting retail stores in Staten island too? Are you including non retail businesses? How about watch literally any video of the protests in Manhattan to see for yourself? To say there wasn't widespread looting in Manhattan is just wrong, and easily disproven by the evidence. Here you go: https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Manhattan+2020+looting https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=Manhattan... Don't believe your lying eyes, right? Funny all this pushback from people who most likely don't even live there.
- cardamomo 5y ago450 businesses is about 1.4% of NYC's retail businesses. According to the state, "In 2019, New York City’s retail sector comprised 32,600 businesses" [0]. That's enough to be noticable, but I wouldn't describe it as a huge percentage. Per my understanding, most of the thefts occured at high-end retail in Lower Manhattan. Is that what you saw? [0] https://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/osdc/retail-sector-new-york-city-recent-trends-and-impact-covid-19 https://www.osc.state.ny.us/reports/osdc/retail-sector-new-y...
- adam_arthur 5y agoVast majority was in lower Manhattan. Which represents about 5% or less of NYC landmass. So you can multiply 1.4% by 10-20 to get a more accurate number
- thehappypm 5y agoDozens of businesses. Dozens I say!
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- nitwit005 5y agoI'd be careful of using reporters photos to "prove" that substantial damage occurred. They have a history of stretching reality with their photography: https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/01/20/searching-metaphor-reporters-flock-burning-dc-garbage-can/ https://www.washingtonian.com/2017/01/20/searching-metaphor-...