Gothamist: NYC Is Safe! Or So The FBI Says

Jason

Wed, 26 May 2004 01:52:09 -0500

All this crime reduction I heard is coming at a price. Today's NYPD personnel are overstretched, forced to work long hours sometimes, and complaining about inadequate pensions. If the force didn't number 39,000 badge-carrying personnel, they'd be even more disheartened and would be leaving in droves. Just look at the LAPD, 11,000 officers in a city of 3.7 million. I just hope that NYC doesn't go the way of LA.

Brian Van

Tue, 25 May 2004 13:11:15 -0500

In other news, they still haven't caught the guy who executed someone in broad daylight on Sixth Avenue. Also, there's a jogger missing, a mob murder trial is underway, and someone raped their ex-girlfriend's daughter. Oh, we won't mention the college student who got killed in Prospect Park, the 25 year old gunned down in the LES, the rich lady who got thrown in the East River and drowned, or the bouncer who got stabbed and killed at Guernica. Or the drunk driver cop who ran over a family. Or girl who got hit by three different cars in Queens. On the bright side, the guy who fell to his death in an airshaft crashing a party, the woman killed by an electrified street plate, and the girl who got hit by a subway train while retrieving her cellphone... well, those were accidents... (don't live in NY for the safety... live in NY for the thrill of it)

huh

Tue, 25 May 2004 12:26:48 -0500

huh? out of 230 cities with populations over 230.

Jellyguy

Tue, 25 May 2004 12:25:16 -0500

They forgot the other half of the story, from Stratfor: U.S.: FBI Warns of Possible Attack May 21, 2004 1502 GMT ... In Stratfor's view, underground subways are the most vulnerable to this type of attack -- specifically those in New York City and Washington, D.C. Underground, the blast effect would be contained and could not vent, as did the blasts in Madrid. This was a tactical error on the operatives' part, but still highly successful. Had the same bombs been detonated in an underground subway, the casualty count would have been greater. The blast effect, coupled with the gas release and potential fire, would create chaos. Adding to this assessment, Stratfor's sources reported a suspicious event on a subway train at New York City's Penn Station early May 21, where an unknown chemical -- which authorities later said might have been a cleaning fluid -- was released on a train. The incident underscores both the vulnerability of -- and nervousness about -- U.S. subway and rail systems...

Kojak

Tue, 25 May 2004 10:23:51 -0500

That still doesn�t mean I�m going to start walking through Central Park at East New York at night. Remember these are only REPORTED crimes they monitor. Leave me to point out the only cloud in the sky.