The safety of New Yorkers: how successfully the city fights crime

Forensics argues that New York is a safe city for life, while many serious crimes in it remain unresolved. At the same time, city residents do not feel safe enough here, the newspaper writes about this. New York Post.

Crime in New York

Last week, local news site Bklyner reported that large gangs of students from Lincoln, located in Brighton Beach, were terrorizing nearby businesses and residents.

So, students chase locals to their homes and release marijuana smoke into the faces of their children. Owners are afraid to open stores during the hours when students are on the streets, the source said. This is not what happens in a truly safe city.

No, this is not murder or robbery, but it affects the quality of life of ordinary Brooklyn residents and can make urban life filled with unnecessary stress.

The authorities' response

The administration of New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, according to the author, refuses to solve this problem, so you should not be surprised if these symptoms develop into something worse in a few years. Bad New York of the 1970s and 1980s, after all, did not happen overnight.

It is hard not to notice that crimes are being committed in plain sight, and it seems that nobody cares.

The smell of marijuana is nothing new in the Big Apple, but it is now ubiquitous, including in playgrounds on Saturday afternoons - and even when police officers are around. Mentally ill people behave aggressively on the subway or urinate on the streets in broad daylight.

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“Instead of doing something about it, the mayor issued a decree instructing the police not to call them“ emotionally sick people ”. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, this will undoubtedly solve the main problem, ”the author noted.

In addition, almost 900 city prisoners can be released even before the law on reform of the bail system is enacted, the newspaper’s recent headline says.

The news leaves New Yorkers frozen in uncomfortable anticipation - and for good reason: just last week, a teenager who threatened pedestrians with a gun and robbed pedestrians with their phones was released on non-ransom bail.

One of the most visible signs of deteriorating order is how lawbreakers in the subway avoid prosecution.

On Friday, November 29, Eyewitness News presenter Bill Ritter tweeted that he saw the guy jumping over the turnstile. At the same time, he was wearing a hat and expensive headphones, and in his hand was a good cell phone. In this connection, Ritter wondered: has free travel become a kind of game? The real answer is why pay if there are no consequences?

Back to the dashing nineties?

He also recalled that as a teenager in the 1990's, he himself jumped over the turnstile in the subway, smiling at the same time to the employees of the railway station D at the Avenue H stop in Brooklyn. He noted that New York at that time was a "decrepit and criminal city."

“My friends and I didn't have the feeling that we owed the city for train tickets, and no one was going to stop us. We have seen the adults' blatant disrespect for the police, ”he said.

The author also recalls how students at New York University exhaled marijuana smoke directly in the face of police officers at St. Marks Place.

“And that set the tone for our behavior,” he stressed. "Children today also learn from the adults around them that they can do whatever they want without consequences."

New York today

In 1994, when Rudi Giuliani became mayor of the city, people began to pay for travel in the metro so as not to be at risk of arrest. It took tremendous effort and vigilance to bring New York to a normal state, which is now taken for granted.

“Our leadership intends to bring us back - in the name of 'progress',” the author believes.

According to him, Mayor Bill de Blasio is always frivolous about crime. After nine different shootings that took place in Brooklyn on the weekend in 2015, he is known to have called for an end to the “hysteria” about crime.

But New Yorkers are not hysterical. Everyone is puzzled by the crazy changes made by this administration. Actions should have consequences, and citizens should not be afraid to be in their streets. Politicians cannot constantly repeat that the level of homicides is low, while the residents of the city face riots at every turn.

"Law-abiding New Yorkers deserve leaders who care about us as much as about the rights of criminals," the author summed up.