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Posted by Kevin from Midwood on Wed Apr 17 17:05:10 2024, in response to Re: Steve Sailer: why NYC needs a low crime rate, posted by AlM on Wed Apr 17 14:10:51 2024. The people who live near NYC's downtown business districts tend to be affluent. That's not true of many smaller cities. Criminals tend to do their stuff near their homes even in NYC. Too much work to take the subway into midtown to mug someone. Also too many cops, too many cell phones to report your crime instantly.It seems to me that it's not uncommon for pickpockets, purse snatchers, scammers and the like to travel to crowded areas, e.g. the Rome Metro or the French Quarter. The NYC crime heatmap gets quite red in Midtown. Thanks to the internet, all bizarre crimes get wide attention. NYC has more of those in number (not as a percentage of population). So NYC is always in the news for a bizarre crime. That doesn't mean you're more at risk for them in NYC; in fact, probably less so. So much media attention (even pre-internet) that you can just rattle off the names: Kitty Genovese, Etan Patz, Kendra Webdale, Daniel Enriquez, Ryan Carson. What really matters here are the best available statistics. |
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