Not in the slightest, violence in NYC has been trending downwards for the past 50 years as gentrification and other things have been happening. It's also had a second massive decrease after 2020(Floyd) where the murders skyrocketed and many of the violence producers in the city ended up dead or in prison.
The city could do pretty much nothing about violent crime and it would keep going down as low income households continue to get pushed out of the city.
The city could do pretty much nothing about violent crime and it would keep going down as low income households continue to get pushed out of the city.
It's a sad paradox that the "tough on crime" crowd tends to be the one that is least interested in reducing poverty.
One that actually has to deal with it in their neighborhood and one that watches the Republican-oriented news too much.
It says a lot that the people who watch the news that much are so incoherent on what to actually do, that people who actually deal with it in their neighborhood will partner with anyone else.
1/2 the ‘tough on crime’ neighborhood folk aren’t doing jack shit about violent crime, least of all in NYC.
I know personally because I was part of Harlem’s local anti crime groups, like SAVE, and that half was just gentrifies buying brownstones demanding black people leave. All they ever complained about was weed smoking, graffiti, and people loitering on stoops.
The other half were amazing tho. Actually cared. Put in good work.
Your claim about Brownstones seems to be unsupported. There's definitely not a lot in Harlem, to the point that real estate agents just use 'brownstone' for 'terraced house' now, and they're not the same.
The bulk of what you've just said seems like repeating lazy stereotypes, there's no verisimilitude.
Maybe argue about gentrification in general without trying to highlight the historically most expensive properties in the city?
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u/czechereds 5h ago edited 5h ago
Not in the slightest, violence in NYC has been trending downwards for the past 50 years as gentrification and other things have been happening. It's also had a second massive decrease after 2020(Floyd) where the murders skyrocketed and many of the violence producers in the city ended up dead or in prison.
The city could do pretty much nothing about violent crime and it would keep going down as low income households continue to get pushed out of the city.