[SamAdams76]

Some FReepers love NYC and insist that it is a safe place;

I'm one of them. I moved to the area a couple years ago and have offices in both Manhattan and Queens (Long Island City). I feel completely safe in the city, day or night. The subway runs 24 hours a day, is well lit and I've never had cause to feel unsafe there either.

But I do realize that if the police didn't have such a presence, it would be a completely different world.

[Calvin Locke]

No worries about the subway slasher? Or did they catch him, or did somebody toss him on the third rail?

[volunbeer]

But I do realize that if the police didn’t have such a presence, it would be a completely different world.

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The Thin Blue Line matters.

[the_individual2014]

I always wanted to live in NYC when I was a teen, nowadays I am trying to get the hell away from the city, I had enough of it.

[Gay State Conservative]

I'm one of them. I moved to the area a couple years ago and have offices in both Manhattan and Queens (Long Island City). I feel completely safe in the city, day or night.

I know what can cure you of your complacency.Spend a couple of hours during the evening shift (or,better still,night shift) in the ER of Harlem Hospital or Kings County Hospital (just to name a couple).

I know this for two reasons...1) because I worked for years in the ER of Boston's largest hospital and 2) because while working there I heard many stories from one of our nurse's time working in Kings County's ER.

[kearnyirish2]

My issue is that even with the police presence, these attacks are still happening. Over the last couple of years, it seems those same police are the targets as well.