Posted on 06/25/2008 3:25:20 AM PDT by jimbo123
The city's murder rate is up nearly 8 percent this year - with surges in rapes and robberies as well, police statistics show.
Nevertheless, the NYPD said the city's overall crime has dipped 3 percent so far this year.
Through Sunday, there were 238 murders, compared with 221 during the same period last year - a 7.6 increase. Five additional murders have been reported since Sunday.
The rise in deadly violence has been accompanied by a troubling 6.2 percent increase in rapes, as well as a 4.4 percent rise in robberies.
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Crime still at 1950s levels.
I see the prosecution of weapons dealers in Georgia by New York is working just nicely.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into liberal utopia, one of the mayor’s voting blocks acts up.
Time to start confiscating trigger fingers.
There’s always a jump when the hot weather hits.
It wasn’t hot on Monday night/Tuesday morning.
I was out on Monday night — a lot of people out on the streets.
Crime is still at historic lows in the city. Will it stay that way? Probably not. A lot of lay-offs on Wall Street, a lot of jobs going to be lost.
It’s George Bush’s fault..........
New York’s crime rate will continue to go up from now on.
Rapes, robberies and murders will be up over 10% this year.
It all started when Bloomberg decided to give back the subways to the mentally ill, the homeless and the violent beggars two years ago.
Uh what subway line do you ride? I’d like to avoid it.
Crime ‘rate’ is down, but murder and rape are up.
Meaning: the Police only count 1 in every few crimes.
I expect to see my stockbroker pulling stick-up jobs in the alley any day now...
The root cause is very simple: Poor people commit most of the crimes. Manhattan is currently in the process of solving this problem by eliminating all poor people from its population base.
so that’ll be about 500 for the year at the current rate. I believe back in the 70s it was 2000. 500 sound good to me
I expect to see my stockbroker pulling stick-up jobs in the alley any day now...
Each Wall Street job supports five or six other jobs, which in turn support two or three other jobs down the food chain...eliminate jobs at the very bottom of the employment food chain and you get crime.
A lot of layoffs on Wall Street? Get real! Are you telling us thart ex-day traders and investment bankers are going to start capping people?
“I see the prosecution of weapons dealers in Georgia by New York is working just nicely....”
Liberals always project the source of their problems elsewhere...rather than examine themselves...
Maybe I am wrong but I doubt it was the “wall street types” who were doing the killing lol
Hillary!!!....get back to work and save New York!
Maybe I am wrong but I doubt it was the “wall street types” who were doing the killing lol
Uh no, they’re not doing the killing. But they do support businesses that support a lot of very poor folks. When Wal Street is in trouble, a slew of messengers, dish washers, deli guys, etc. are tossed out on the street for lack of business.
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