November 19, 2007
This Is A Stick-Up Up-Tick
Robberies are down a little more than 8% from a year ago, but the New York Post reports that some spots around town have seen stunning jumps in the incidence rate of muggings. In 18 of 76 precincts in NYC, robberies are heading up rather than down, like in the rest of the city. Assaults, however, are static citywide--increasing from 15,025 to 15,097 which is statistically insignificant.
The increase in robberies is anomalous mostly because NYC has become so safe recently. A graphic designer from Berkeley, CA recounted her first years in New York shortly after moving here in 1989: "I remember I got mugged about twice a week when I lived in the East Village." Some tips on what to do to prevent a mugging includes giving robbers whatever they want.
This year, man proposing to his girlfriend in Central Park was stopped by a mugger, a number of Williamsburg residents were being mugged and senior citizens were targeted by one mugger in Queens. Nicole duFresne was infamously murdered after challenging muggers in the East Village during a robbery. Oprah Winfrey recently was criticized by the 'Central Park Jogger,' over Winfrey's question about whether she should have ventured into Central Park after dark, where she was viciously attacked and raped.
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Break down the muggers by race if you really want to see anomalous, but ofcourse we're too PC to allow that. Don't want to hurt anyone's feeling or some shit like that, you know?
A crime is a crime, regardless of race. Who is stupid enough to break down muggers by race. So a white lady walking down a dark street is saying to herself, "As long as I get mugged by a white mugger that's fine, just not a black mugger!".
Break down the race on who steals from Open Houses:
http://gothamist.com/2007/11/17/when_robbers_st.php
*cough* Where is your comment on that article? *cough*
twice a week?????
I have lived in NY all my life and have never been mugged. A little bit of street-smarts goes a long way....
Even though the Post is a vulgar, trashy rag, I'm very grateful that they published this list.
Maybe public shaming will motivate the 108th to get off their butts and DO THEIR DAMNED JOBS.
well like david chappelle once said. I don't believe in stereotypes, but I do believe in statistics.
What's wrong with breaking muggings down by race? Crimes aren't color blind, and criminals and victims aren't either.
Everyone's a racist, a little. By ignoring that, things are gonna go unnoticed.
I've noticed that crime has supposed gone up in Harlem & the Lower East Side - two neighborhoods that have undergone a surge in gentrification.
Explanation: more "upper class" people have moved to bad neighborhoods in an effort to take advantage of low rents and easier commutes, as well as drive up real estates values of properties purchased cheaply while forcing out the lower-income residents who lived there for years as they could not afford the rapidly inflating rents.
These "upper class" people are quick to call the police, unlike the former populous who avoided police intervention instead of sought it. This is how statistics skews reality. Sometimes numbers are just numbers.
Although, if this increase in numbers means placing some sort of blame on Bloomberg then I'll all for it.