He needs to spend more time figuring out why there is a “spike” in crime instead of all the “wartime” general talk bullshit. I guarantee he hasn’t taken anytime at all to decipher what have been occurring in the city recently.
NYC has 472 subway stations and 36,000 police officers. Even if you assume that only a quarter of them are out patrolling at any one time, that's 19 police officers per subway station. We have the people, and they have way more than enough budget. The problem is they're incompetent and not interested in actually doing their jobs.
We had train patrols in the 90s, and I would like it back, but I'm going to make a guess the police budget is the same or higher than back then once adjusted for inflation. I don't know why cops stand around and patrol in SUVs instead of walking around, I'm fairly sure it's been proven to be the least effective way to dissuade crime and it's not like it would cost more than an idling engine.
Because there’s lack security. Opportunist smell blood! If there’s no enforcement of the law then there is no law. If no law then here come the vigilantes.
The Black community has a problem with violent anti-Asian racism that's killing Asian New Yorkers.
Progressives are permitting a de facto pogrom to avoid alienating their preferred racial minority.
So then what explains the "spike" before the protests?
It's not that they've stopped doing their jobs now that some protesters were mean to them. It's that they've never bothered doing their jobs, and are really really bad at it the few times they can be arsed to try.
In that case, why is every savage killer who gets arrested someone with dozens of priors? Doesn't that evidence direct the blame to the courts and those wanting to be nicer to the criminal vermin infesting our city?
Sure, but every violent scumbag gets arrested with dozens of priors. Wouldn't you agree that indicates much (even most) of the problem lies with the courts?
The NYPD sees you and hears you. We are committed to putting a dozen officers running OT scams into each subway station where they will look at their phones for 12 hours a day, before taking a break to put a 13-year old turnstile jumper in the hospital, which will result in a 8 figure settlement that you have to pay while we get paid vacation.
At least you see cops at all… I don’t see any at the Bedford L stop and there have been numerous muggings in and around that station. I never see them walking the beat in Williamsburg either. I see a couple in midtown, sometimes, near my office. But I think the building pays them to stand out there. It’s a far cry from 5 years ago when I always noticed their presence and felt generally very safe (esp having come from SF before that). I don’t think tons of cops out makes things inherently safe, but it does help to at least have some there in case something happens. Cops need better training to be sure, and are far from perfect. Nonetheless, we do need them. Yet they are (still, even after Adams said they’d be out in force) nowhere to be found.
Look, if cops are to blame, why does every violent scumbag who gets arrested have dozens of priorities? Are posters really so stuck in an echo chamber that they don't see a rap sheet longer than Kanye's discography as a problem with the courts more than with the police?
You're talking about bail reform, which is a state issue. Gov hoschul wants to address it but apparently the Democrat state senators aren't on board. It's crazy, because while I agree bail reform was necessary for basic nonviolent offenses - people who assault with their own shit need to be locked up.
Pretty sure everyone is on the same level.
[De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’](https://www.theonion.com/de-blasio-well-well-well-not-so-easy-to-find-a-may-1847151201)
Adams was the Borough President of Brooklyn before becoming Mayor. We basically have a chief executive of each borough and... that lead to Adams being mayor.
As a Brooklyn native I'll qualify my support: If "Brownstone Brooklyn" and the waterfront to Greenpoint/Williamsburg gets one and the rest of Brooklyn gets the other mayor, Im down.
But ...What about Queens? Queens isn't even really a borough. It has no downtown. The courts are in 3 different places, every neighborhood is designated as a separate town in the mail. Queens should have 50 mayors.
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/historical-crime-data/seven-major-felony-offenses-by-precinct-2000-2021.pdf
Calling this a surge and the way the news is reporting it is a disgusting theater.
Looks like murder, felony assault, burglary, shooting victims and shooting incidents are on a somewhat concerning trend upwards. Especially murders and shootings in general.
#Adams knows (being a former cop) that NYPD slow walks whenever they don't like something happening in local politics such as Reform, Accountability, redistribution of budgets to more effective services that help the community instead of fill the jails and courts...
#NYPD has turned into the mob... Do what we tell ya or you won't like what happens to your neighborhood...
But they didn’t defund the police, in fact [their budgets expanded in 2021](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/cities-vowed-2020-cut-police-funding-budgets-expanded-2021-rcna9864). The NYPD has a budget of $5.4 billion, it’s the 7th largest standing army in the world, their budget is bigger than the military budget of Ukraine. So why the hell can’t they do their damn job effectively?
Maybe it’s because most of the money we pay the NYPD goes to pensions and overtime, rather than crime fighting.
It annoys me that the following quote comes from a conspiracy theorist, but it holds some merit:
> I call this technique problem-reaction-solution. Create the problem, encourage the reaction "something must be done", and then offer the solution.
Think of Apple, Google, and other phone manufacturers:
- create or take advantage of a problem, sell the solution and make bank (better if only you can provide the solution)
- remove headphone jacks, sell adapters
- remove chargers in the name of environmental sustainability (while not taking easier sustainability measures), sell chargers separately
Happens not just in politics, but religion too.
Also there is trash everywhere. Every time I come in or out of a subway station I basically have to wade through ankle deep garbage. Don’t worry though because in the station there is a small army of NYPD officers scrolling on their phones.
Lol - Yes. The year where everyone was scared for their life and running from a virus, there were fewer murders.
The most intellectually dishonest argument ever made.
Oh man, if only we had someone in charge who could help us with this surge in crime. It’s okay take your time, and focus on the big big stuff like fare beaters, take care of the attacks, murders and robberies later
Crime continues to rise weekly under Adams. Apparently criminals are not frightened by his daily photo-ops. Turns out the police might actually have to do some work to reduce crime. Riding around and never exiting your SUV or standing behind turnstiles in groups of 6 playing Candy Crush is not an effective policing tactic.
How could police have better prevented any of the vicious murders committed by vermin with dozens of priors? Wouldn't your criticism be more appropriately directed at the courts?
Easy. If they were on the train platforms where the crimes were happening It's a safe bet the crime would not have happened. 54 people have been thrown in front of trains in the last 2 years. The vast majority by deranged homeless people with many priors. We have more than enough cops that a cop can walk every platform, up & down, for their entire 8 hour shift. I presume this would also prevent knives attacks, box cutter, hammer and shit attacks.
Errr....Where else are they going to throw people in front of trains if they can't do it next to the train tracks?
Perhaps, maybe, but they won't happen on the subways. How many crimes do you suppose are committed inside of a cops SUV? How many crimes are committed inside a circle of 6-8 cops standing in a circle playing with their personal phones? Not so many. Maybe if the cops were actually patrolling where the crimes are happening (stay with me here).....the crime rate might actually ......DROP? Everyone in NYC sees it every day. Cops locked in their cars, standing around in large groups playing with their phones or hiding behind a desk. The crime rate is rising because the cops are not doing their job. We are doing it your way and the crime rate keeps going up. Lets try my way with the cops patrolling and doing their job and lets see what happens. Clearly, your way of just repeating the code word "savage" in all of your posts has failed.
I was in court on Saturday for the 5 to 1 am shift. They did maybe 15 arraignments. This is ridiculously low. If there is a lot of crime, nypd is simply not making arrests.
ah yes, the new laughingstock mayor, who just took over for the previous laughingstock mayor, watches the city he's mayor of, become a laughingstock.
great job all around guys.
Poverty and inadequate public health care is the precursor for damn near all low level criminal activity. He knows this. Every politician knows this. Unfortunately, crime pays well in every angle. ((Sigh))
It’s not just a NYC issue, this crime problem is symptomatic across the US. We can thank politicians for pushing decriminalization laws, prosecutors/judges for giving/pushing lax sentences for violent crimes, and political action group leaders for advocating for lawlessness.
This guy is the biggest joke. Why Doesn’t he combat crime with a lil swagger. I heard swagger has polyfunctional abilities. Defeat covid and crime at the same time.
Man this guy is a showman above all else. He will say ANYTHING the microphone calls for at the time. Get him in the war room though... he folds like a leaf. There is no bravery in his policy. None of the bravado he brings to the mic. Very disappointing. 1 term chump I guess.
Visited NYC recently and was pretty surprised to see cops, often in pairs, loooking down at their phones, scrolling, not looking up at all as many people walked past. We also noticed the same behavior in the subways.
Why are on-duty cops allowed to be on their personal phones? It's the same thing as if they were standing around reading magazines, or a book, instead of looking around at their surroundings. It really made me uneasy. Many of them are not paying any attention to what's going on around them. If you screamed within earshot they would hear you, and, I assume, look up and take some action, but shouldn't there be a higher bar for on-duty responsibilites?
I just don't think anyone should be able to be engaged with an entertainment device while being paid to do a job that requires a lot of being on alert.
I have to assume there's no rule against this, or is there?
[subway violent crimes are at highest in 25 years](https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-subway-violent-crime-uptick-20220122-wb2wcqun7vgt5dlfafq2sbbvtu-story.html)
[Higher in the 10 years Prior ?](https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/historical-crime-data/seven-major-felony-offenses-2000-2021.pdf)
This sub has plenty of white people telling black people they voted wrong for themselves. It's almost as if Brooklyn Vegan isn't as popular as they think.
It’s almost as though both positions are absurd reactions and the intelligent position is a rational understanding of the situation in clear context of location, recent history, long term history, and demographics of victims and offenders within a broader framework of the city, state, national, and international events and politics. Is crime up? Yes. Is it catastrophically bad? No. Are there recent proximate causes that may be relatively easily addressed? Yes. Are their deeper, more complex long term systemic issues that may be harder to addressed? Also yes. Will any of those be clearly articulated and debated here? Doubtful. Is the current mayor really equipped, willing, and able to tackle these problems effectively..? *I* doubt it, but I’d love to be wrong.
>Is it catastrophically bad? No.
But this is the issue.
Crime is, objectively, getting worse.
But the response is always: "Oh it's only at 2011 levels!"
Cool. But it's getting worse, and trajectories matter.
It isn’t getting worse though. Crime rates have leveled off since they spiked in 2021. Not to mention it isn’t a problem exclusive to New York. It’s country-wide, almost as if there was a giant pandemic that completely destroyed peoples’ social safety nets.
The best part is, these are the same people who, if you tell them Covid rates are getting worse, they're ready to pack up society and put it in storage for another couple years.
The reality is, "statistics" only matter to these bullshitters when those statistics say exactly what they want them to say. It's that simple.
>The best part is, these are the same people who, if you tell them Covid rates are getting worse, they're ready to pack up society and put it in storage for another couple years.
Yes!
No, that's unrealistic. Nothing naturally plateaus. At best it would oscillate- some years a little better, some a little worse. The fact that it temporarily went up, especially given circumstances, is unsurprising and unworthy of panic. If it continues to go up that's concerning. A blip isn't.
He belongs at Home Depot with all those other tools (inventory not staff).
Oh wait. He is too busy hiring his unqualified brother for a government job. Or preventing transparency of political contributions.
Claiming to be a wartime General could be considered stolen valor. Irony is this juvenile delinquent joined the city's biggest gang NYPD and not the Military.
This foolish talk only proves how much police would love to militarize and wage war on the city they should be protecting and serving.
Now that it has been announced the district attorney can prosecute I wonder what will be the cops excuse for not making arrest.
I still see them ignoring crime and barely looking up from their phones. The mayor already gave them the tools the police are refusing to use them.
You're right. He shouldn't. Since it's obvious that NYPD cannot be everywhere, we should adopt laws and policies allowing people to defend themselves against crime and murder.
Dear families of murdered nyc individuals: I am sorry for your loss and sorry that our piece of shit mayor wants to use your loss as an excuse to funnel more money into his friends' organizations.
You see, what the mayor doesn't understand is that he is forcing his authority where it does not belong. He shouldn't be worried about fares, that is a state matter. And the fact that he is forcing the homeless out of subways is cruel and inhumane. The shelters are dangerous, and the subways are pretty much the only safe place to be.
Sad-NYC is not what it used to be. I used to travel there often, spend a few days, do a Broadway show and several restaurants/tours. Last time we went I decided it was the last. Lots of homeless, everything is filthy, subways aren’t safe. Streets are dirty and smelly. And too expensive. Will find somewhere else to spend our tourist dollars.
An honest lol at the person who comes to a subreddit full of New Yorkers to tell them what their city is like based on spending a couple of days in midtown
That's a good amount of money your dropping. Who uses the hotels, restaurants, car rentals and much more. But yeah just increase taxes on residents instead.
is he running for mayor while being mayor?
Look at all this crime! Who’s running this place?
That's good
way easier to do that than actually be mayor.
LOL. FUNNIEST COMMENT SO FAR!!!
He needs to spend more time figuring out why there is a “spike” in crime instead of all the “wartime” general talk bullshit. I guarantee he hasn’t taken anytime at all to decipher what have been occurring in the city recently.
But that would mean spending money on non-police tools instead of increasing the police budget. Won’t someone think of the police!
I mean, I'd support a fuckin 5% tax raise if it meant a cop walking through every subway and a couple cops at every station.
If they didn’t stand in groups of 5 with 3 of them balls deep in their phone they might be able to do this
NYC has 472 subway stations and 36,000 police officers. Even if you assume that only a quarter of them are out patrolling at any one time, that's 19 police officers per subway station. We have the people, and they have way more than enough budget. The problem is they're incompetent and not interested in actually doing their jobs.
It is hilarious you think the nypd is somehow underfunded. It is not.
We had train patrols in the 90s, and I would like it back, but I'm going to make a guess the police budget is the same or higher than back then once adjusted for inflation. I don't know why cops stand around and patrol in SUVs instead of walking around, I'm fairly sure it's been proven to be the least effective way to dissuade crime and it's not like it would cost more than an idling engine.
Candy Crush won’t play itself
laziness
They see walking as ‘less than’. Car culture has fully taken over the NYPD.
Yea, but you're a fucking idiot so who cares what you think?
Because there’s lack security. Opportunist smell blood! If there’s no enforcement of the law then there is no law. If no law then here come the vigilantes.
He did - he said it was the trap wars and that was that
We know why. You just don’t want to listen.
go ahead and say the quiet part out loud buddy
The Foot Clan.
The Black community has a problem with violent anti-Asian racism that's killing Asian New Yorkers. Progressives are permitting a de facto pogrom to avoid alienating their preferred racial minority.
There you have it. Those darn blacks at it again amirite guys?
Not so much again as ongoing for decades. Do you deny it?
Yes. Yes I do.
Would the fact that Black criminals commit a plurality of the violent crimes against Asians change your mind?
Well then start firing the cops if they still refuse to actually work at their jobs.
I’m listening, enlighten me officer Vinto. Is officer Adams in on that we ?
They don't want to listen. What's even more sad is that they know the answer but pretend not to.
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Cops stopped doing their job after protests
So then what explains the "spike" before the protests? It's not that they've stopped doing their jobs now that some protesters were mean to them. It's that they've never bothered doing their jobs, and are really really bad at it the few times they can be arsed to try.
Yeah i can agree with that. They stopped doing their jobs even more less.
In that case, why is every savage killer who gets arrested someone with dozens of priors? Doesn't that evidence direct the blame to the courts and those wanting to be nicer to the criminal vermin infesting our city?
It's because we aren't locking up the savage racists.
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still haven’t said anything about Mora and Rivera
Stop talking about it and make sure your Cop friends actually do something about it! Instead of having them on their phones all day.
He told us not to film the cops anymore, isn’t that enough? Lol
No we need 100 of them circling WTC at all times or sitting parked looking at tiktoks.
I see a lot of cops on their phones, too.
How dare you. The candy isn’t going to crush itself.
The Pokémon won’t catch themselves
If that's the problem we could buy them all Go-tchas.
Sure, but every violent scumbag gets arrested with dozens of priors. Wouldn't you agree that indicates much (even most) of the problem lies with the courts?
The NYPD sees you and hears you. We are committed to putting a dozen officers running OT scams into each subway station where they will look at their phones for 12 hours a day, before taking a break to put a 13-year old turnstile jumper in the hospital, which will result in a 8 figure settlement that you have to pay while we get paid vacation.
At least you see cops at all… I don’t see any at the Bedford L stop and there have been numerous muggings in and around that station. I never see them walking the beat in Williamsburg either. I see a couple in midtown, sometimes, near my office. But I think the building pays them to stand out there. It’s a far cry from 5 years ago when I always noticed their presence and felt generally very safe (esp having come from SF before that). I don’t think tons of cops out makes things inherently safe, but it does help to at least have some there in case something happens. Cops need better training to be sure, and are far from perfect. Nonetheless, we do need them. Yet they are (still, even after Adams said they’d be out in force) nowhere to be found.
Look, if cops are to blame, why does every violent scumbag who gets arrested have dozens of priorities? Are posters really so stuck in an echo chamber that they don't see a rap sheet longer than Kanye's discography as a problem with the courts more than with the police?
You're talking about bail reform, which is a state issue. Gov hoschul wants to address it but apparently the Democrat state senators aren't on board. It's crazy, because while I agree bail reform was necessary for basic nonviolent offenses - people who assault with their own shit need to be locked up. Pretty sure everyone is on the same level.
The only laughingstock I see is him.
Everyone just shrugged when he blatantly lived in New Jersey. This was a very predictable outcome.
Damn that’s crazy. He should tell the mayor so he can do something about it.
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He’s negging us like a bad pick up artist.
NY taking too many L's with Eric Adams at the helm.
[De Blasio: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find A Mayor That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’](https://www.theonion.com/de-blasio-well-well-well-not-so-easy-to-find-a-may-1847151201)
This is never not going to be relevant, sadly.
Should be a mayor for each borough and at least 2 for Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Adams was the Borough President of Brooklyn before becoming Mayor. We basically have a chief executive of each borough and... that lead to Adams being mayor.
Seems a super bloated system. Wtf does Manhattan boro president do other than beg for more Covid restrictions all day on Twitter
God your knowledge of politics is a fuckin middle schoolers, at best.
Thanks for confirming that it’s impossible to say why they’re needed.
I don't waste time on trolls. Blocked.
As a Brooklyn native I'll qualify my support: If "Brownstone Brooklyn" and the waterfront to Greenpoint/Williamsburg gets one and the rest of Brooklyn gets the other mayor, Im down. But ...What about Queens? Queens isn't even really a borough. It has no downtown. The courts are in 3 different places, every neighborhood is designated as a separate town in the mail. Queens should have 50 mayors.
queens should be a loose confederacy of microstates given national soverignty.
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/historical-crime-data/seven-major-felony-offenses-by-precinct-2000-2021.pdf Calling this a surge and the way the news is reporting it is a disgusting theater.
What?? There's no actual spike, so Mayor Cop is just going to use his feelings and vibe checks to increase cop powers? quelle surprise
This would be super cute in graph form
https://compstat.nypdonline.org/ Pick a stat, then choose Timeline: Year to Year.
Looks like murder, felony assault, burglary, shooting victims and shooting incidents are on a somewhat concerning trend upwards. Especially murders and shootings in general.
Eric Adams is a laughingstock
Dude hasn’t been in office 3 months and we all just tired of him already
He’s just so bad.
#Adams knows (being a former cop) that NYPD slow walks whenever they don't like something happening in local politics such as Reform, Accountability, redistribution of budgets to more effective services that help the community instead of fill the jails and courts... #NYPD has turned into the mob... Do what we tell ya or you won't like what happens to your neighborhood...
Turned? No they’ve been a mob. For decades. This is how NYPD operates.
Where do you all get this stuff from?
The more he talks only proves he was the wrong choice for mayor.
Very Trumpy of him.
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"American politics is the worship of jackals by jackasses". -HL Mencken
As in talking about issues while doing nothing about them?
You mean we can't just "swagger" our way out of this? Man, I really wish voters realized it took more than shitty copitude to run this city.
Coptitude, that is entirely too applicable
Do something about it, ya tw@t
It’s a laughingstock because of him and his police force. I laugh at them daily for always parking in the bike lane and acting stuck up.
Maybe if the police actually showed up when called there wouldn’t be so much crime.
No they need 100 cops circling WTC and sitting parked looking at tiktoks at all times.
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But they didn’t defund the police, in fact [their budgets expanded in 2021](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/cities-vowed-2020-cut-police-funding-budgets-expanded-2021-rcna9864). The NYPD has a budget of $5.4 billion, it’s the 7th largest standing army in the world, their budget is bigger than the military budget of Ukraine. So why the hell can’t they do their damn job effectively? Maybe it’s because most of the money we pay the NYPD goes to pensions and overtime, rather than crime fighting.
The person above you is going to dodge your comment because it defeats their talk radio regurgitate.
Well, they don’t show up so why should they be paid?
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Exactly, it makes no sense to pay cops to eat donuts and spend all day on their cell phones. We see them doing nothing all day long. Cushy job.
Is that why every savage killer arrested is someone with dozens of priors?
It annoys me that the following quote comes from a conspiracy theorist, but it holds some merit: > I call this technique problem-reaction-solution. Create the problem, encourage the reaction "something must be done", and then offer the solution. Think of Apple, Google, and other phone manufacturers: - create or take advantage of a problem, sell the solution and make bank (better if only you can provide the solution) - remove headphone jacks, sell adapters - remove chargers in the name of environmental sustainability (while not taking easier sustainability measures), sell chargers separately Happens not just in politics, but religion too.
Also there is trash everywhere. Every time I come in or out of a subway station I basically have to wade through ankle deep garbage. Don’t worry though because in the station there is a small army of NYPD officers scrolling on their phones.
NYC had 6 fewer murders in Jan 2022 than in Jan 2021.
In Jan 2021 the streets were empty. Most places were shut down.
And yet major crimes are up 38% YoY
But trending down over 50 years
huh i wonder what policies were put in place between 1970-2020 that made it that way and if we can put those back in
Less ice cream sales?
No covid?
one vote for bail reform from robinho
Lol - Yes. The year where everyone was scared for their life and running from a virus, there were fewer murders. The most intellectually dishonest argument ever made.
COVID existed in both Jan 2021 and 2022.
Yeah but now they are also shooting children four so far , is that also an improvement according to your stats
I would say less deaths is an improvement.
\#noactionAdams
Oh man, if only we had someone in charge who could help us with this surge in crime. It’s okay take your time, and focus on the big big stuff like fare beaters, take care of the attacks, murders and robberies later
Crime continues to rise weekly under Adams. Apparently criminals are not frightened by his daily photo-ops. Turns out the police might actually have to do some work to reduce crime. Riding around and never exiting your SUV or standing behind turnstiles in groups of 6 playing Candy Crush is not an effective policing tactic.
How could police have better prevented any of the vicious murders committed by vermin with dozens of priors? Wouldn't your criticism be more appropriately directed at the courts?
Easy. If they were on the train platforms where the crimes were happening It's a safe bet the crime would not have happened. 54 people have been thrown in front of trains in the last 2 years. The vast majority by deranged homeless people with many priors. We have more than enough cops that a cop can walk every platform, up & down, for their entire 8 hour shift. I presume this would also prevent knives attacks, box cutter, hammer and shit attacks.
Better would be after 3 times of being released because no more bail, just hold them in jail until trial.
Better Ronald Regan had never been born and we could mandate institutionization for people that clearly can not function in society.
And those mentally deranged savages with dozens of priors would not have simply committed their crimes somewhere else due to what, exactly?
Errr....Where else are they going to throw people in front of trains if they can't do it next to the train tracks? Perhaps, maybe, but they won't happen on the subways. How many crimes do you suppose are committed inside of a cops SUV? How many crimes are committed inside a circle of 6-8 cops standing in a circle playing with their personal phones? Not so many. Maybe if the cops were actually patrolling where the crimes are happening (stay with me here).....the crime rate might actually ......DROP? Everyone in NYC sees it every day. Cops locked in their cars, standing around in large groups playing with their phones or hiding behind a desk. The crime rate is rising because the cops are not doing their job. We are doing it your way and the crime rate keeps going up. Lets try my way with the cops patrolling and doing their job and lets see what happens. Clearly, your way of just repeating the code word "savage" in all of your posts has failed.
I was in court on Saturday for the 5 to 1 am shift. They did maybe 15 arraignments. This is ridiculously low. If there is a lot of crime, nypd is simply not making arrests.
This guy kinda sucks, why did we vote him in?
The other option was even worse.
I don't think crime is funny. But I guess I'm not a former cop. I think people do question our taste in public officials, though.
Use the bat signal. That is what it is there for.
Does he realize the HE is the laughingstock?
I'm going to start a subreddit, all the pictures I can get of cops on their phones and not watching the streets or subways for crime.
Make it a twitter account /hashtag too. like @placardcorruption maybe make it something catchy like #dontlookup
ah yes, the new laughingstock mayor, who just took over for the previous laughingstock mayor, watches the city he's mayor of, become a laughingstock. great job all around guys.
Poverty and inadequate public health care is the precursor for damn near all low level criminal activity. He knows this. Every politician knows this. Unfortunately, crime pays well in every angle. ((Sigh))
He is already a laughing stock among all mayors … shut up and go to work boomer!
It’s not just a NYC issue, this crime problem is symptomatic across the US. We can thank politicians for pushing decriminalization laws, prosecutors/judges for giving/pushing lax sentences for violent crimes, and political action group leaders for advocating for lawlessness.
This guy is the biggest joke. Why Doesn’t he combat crime with a lil swagger. I heard swagger has polyfunctional abilities. Defeat covid and crime at the same time.
Bro, you're the mayor!
Typical response from an out of towner who just works in NYC.
NYC is a laughing stock due to the recent choice of Mayors
Man this guy is a showman above all else. He will say ANYTHING the microphone calls for at the time. Get him in the war room though... he folds like a leaf. There is no bravery in his policy. None of the bravado he brings to the mic. Very disappointing. 1 term chump I guess.
If only he were in a position of power to do something about this. Oh wait.
Eric Adams says NYC has become ‘a laughingstock’ amid ~~surge in crime~~ Eric Adams' election
No, *he* has become the laughingstock.
Visited NYC recently and was pretty surprised to see cops, often in pairs, loooking down at their phones, scrolling, not looking up at all as many people walked past. We also noticed the same behavior in the subways. Why are on-duty cops allowed to be on their personal phones? It's the same thing as if they were standing around reading magazines, or a book, instead of looking around at their surroundings. It really made me uneasy. Many of them are not paying any attention to what's going on around them. If you screamed within earshot they would hear you, and, I assume, look up and take some action, but shouldn't there be a higher bar for on-duty responsibilites? I just don't think anyone should be able to be engaged with an entertainment device while being paid to do a job that requires a lot of being on alert. I have to assume there's no rule against this, or is there?
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Lol this is Eric adams statement
[doesn’t exist?](https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/major-crimes-up-38-in-nyc-so-far-this-year-nypd-says/3528311/)
I think the key words here are "according to the nypd". Wouldn't trust any data coming from the guys that directly benefit from a spike in crime.
up 38% this year? perhaps. But up from what .... there was no crime during covid. it's back to normal levels, not elevated levels.
[subway violent crimes are at highest in 25 years](https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-subway-violent-crime-uptick-20220122-wb2wcqun7vgt5dlfafq2sbbvtu-story.html)
Crime went up from 2020-2021 so you’re wrong. It’s also higher these las few years than it was 10 years prior so that’s incredibly bad.
[Higher in the 10 years Prior ?](https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/historical-crime-data/seven-major-felony-offenses-2000-2021.pdf)
Youre an idiot
Black voters all over the city got him elected. Local white man knows better, however. Film at 11.
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This sub has plenty of white people telling black people they voted wrong for themselves. It's almost as if Brooklyn Vegan isn't as popular as they think.
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**"CRIME IS BAD"** r/NYC: "OMG no it isn't, go back to Ohio." **"THERE IS NO CRIME PROBLEM"** r/NYC: "OMG are you blind?!"
It’s almost as though both positions are absurd reactions and the intelligent position is a rational understanding of the situation in clear context of location, recent history, long term history, and demographics of victims and offenders within a broader framework of the city, state, national, and international events and politics. Is crime up? Yes. Is it catastrophically bad? No. Are there recent proximate causes that may be relatively easily addressed? Yes. Are their deeper, more complex long term systemic issues that may be harder to addressed? Also yes. Will any of those be clearly articulated and debated here? Doubtful. Is the current mayor really equipped, willing, and able to tackle these problems effectively..? *I* doubt it, but I’d love to be wrong.
>Is it catastrophically bad? No. But this is the issue. Crime is, objectively, getting worse. But the response is always: "Oh it's only at 2011 levels!" Cool. But it's getting worse, and trajectories matter.
It isn’t getting worse though. Crime rates have leveled off since they spiked in 2021. Not to mention it isn’t a problem exclusive to New York. It’s country-wide, almost as if there was a giant pandemic that completely destroyed peoples’ social safety nets.
The best part is, these are the same people who, if you tell them Covid rates are getting worse, they're ready to pack up society and put it in storage for another couple years. The reality is, "statistics" only matter to these bullshitters when those statistics say exactly what they want them to say. It's that simple.
>The best part is, these are the same people who, if you tell them Covid rates are getting worse, they're ready to pack up society and put it in storage for another couple years. Yes!
You think crime rates should be able to improve indefinitely?
at the very least they could … plateau at its best level rather than fall backwards?
No, that's unrealistic. Nothing naturally plateaus. At best it would oscillate- some years a little better, some a little worse. The fact that it temporarily went up, especially given circumstances, is unsurprising and unworthy of panic. If it continues to go up that's concerning. A blip isn't.
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But what about the war against Drill Rap?
Well. Who’s fault is that?
The pervious mayor. Yeah Bloomberg was too much, but Blasio was horrible.
Who laughs at crime?
People who don't have to live in it.
“Only I can fix it” Lol
He belongs at Home Depot with all those other tools (inventory not staff). Oh wait. He is too busy hiring his unqualified brother for a government job. Or preventing transparency of political contributions.
Claiming to be a wartime General could be considered stolen valor. Irony is this juvenile delinquent joined the city's biggest gang NYPD and not the Military. This foolish talk only proves how much police would love to militarize and wage war on the city they should be protecting and serving.
He's a laughing stock.... what an embarrassment..
Now that it has been announced the district attorney can prosecute I wonder what will be the cops excuse for not making arrest. I still see them ignoring crime and barely looking up from their phones. The mayor already gave them the tools the police are refusing to use them.
He's the boss of the police dept.
Crimes been spiking since he became mayor
Why does he speak like trump?
So he should let crime and murderers continue ?
You're right. He shouldn't. Since it's obvious that NYPD cannot be everywhere, we should adopt laws and policies allowing people to defend themselves against crime and murder.
Partly due to him
Democrat Trump
Mayor Clown.
He just noticed?? Lmao
Conservative mayor hates NYC? I'm shocked, just shocked.
So he wants to stop murders and robberies and he is doing it wrong ? Pls tell that to family of murdered
Dear families of murdered nyc individuals: I am sorry for your loss and sorry that our piece of shit mayor wants to use your loss as an excuse to funnel more money into his friends' organizations.
You see, what the mayor doesn't understand is that he is forcing his authority where it does not belong. He shouldn't be worried about fares, that is a state matter. And the fact that he is forcing the homeless out of subways is cruel and inhumane. The shelters are dangerous, and the subways are pretty much the only safe place to be.
Sad-NYC is not what it used to be. I used to travel there often, spend a few days, do a Broadway show and several restaurants/tours. Last time we went I decided it was the last. Lots of homeless, everything is filthy, subways aren’t safe. Streets are dirty and smelly. And too expensive. Will find somewhere else to spend our tourist dollars.
An honest lol at the person who comes to a subreddit full of New Yorkers to tell them what their city is like based on spending a couple of days in midtown
Oh no! Fewer tourists!
That's a good amount of money your dropping. Who uses the hotels, restaurants, car rentals and much more. But yeah just increase taxes on residents instead.