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"gentrification" == "cleaning up crime" I for one am glad that I can now safely walk through parts of town I would've never been able to set foot in without be
by amyjess 12y ago
"gentrification" == "cleaning up crime"
I for one am glad that I can now safely walk through parts of town I would've never been able to set foot in without being shot, raped, and/or robbed in the 90s.
(I don't live in NYC, but the same thing is happening where I live, and it's the same people whining and acting like lower crime rates are a bad thing)
- detaro 12y agorather "cleaning up crime" ⊂ "gentrification" or "gentrification" ⇒ "cleaning up crime" and other people care about other parts of the process
- pyre 12y agoI know places (locally) that I consider gentrified where friends have been beaten up for being the wrong minority. Gentrified doesn't always mean safe.
- golergka 12y agoHas the probability of this increased, decreased or stayed the same though?
- dmix 12y agoStudies have shown police tend to "over-police" poor neighbourhoods. Disproportionate even to the percentage of crime that exists in those areas. So I wouldn't be surprised if they spent less time in newly gentrified areas and spent most of their time patrolling the worse areas. Offsetting the crime reduction.
- rhizome 12y agoLike Michael Griffith in Howard Beach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Beach_racial_incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Beach_racial_incident