Posted on 06/21/2018 2:47:50 PM PDT by RightGeek
Gangbangers peddle drugs in plain sight, hustlers resell cheap booze on the street corner — 50 cents will get you a capful — and prostitutes lead johns to the boarded-up husk of what used to be a Taco Bell.
This is Tompkinsville Park on Staten Island’s North Shore in 2018 and, to area residents and merchants caught in its heroin- and K2-infested vortex, this is a battlefield.
“Every day you see muggings, prostitutes, people smoking crack and shooting up heroin,” said Xhafer Gjeshbitraj, 52, who owns a building across the street from the tiny, triangular park bounded by Bay Street and Victory Boulevard.
“It’s a war zone, in the truest sense of the word.”
In the nearly four years since Eric Garner was killed in a struggle with an NYPD officer across the street from the park, locals claim the area has gone to the wolves, with cops hesitant to lay down the law at the risk of igniting another firestorm.
“Guys are not going to risk their jobs anymore,” said one high-ranking law enforcement source familiar with the precinct. “We’ll just let you have that area.”
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Exactly. The liberal elites of New York persuaded the voters that the police were all authoritarian thugs who needed to be reigned in. Now that they have been, crime is back with a vengeance and the population, especially the poor, the elderly and other vulnerable parts of the population, are suffering the most.
“I guarantee he is cooking the crime statistics.”
How do you cook the books of a Murder Rate?
NYC has a Murder Rate of 3.4
Chicago’s Murder Rate is 23.8
Milwaukee has a Murder Rate of 24.2
St. Louis has a Murder Rate of 59.8.
Must be fake news .... DeBlasio has eliminated crime in the Big Rotten Apple.
I'm all for that.
He must be one of the good guys. Albanians have a reputation as being some ruthless gangsters or just plain bad asses so just the fact that he is upset and powerless to stop this shows he must be on the good side. Sad isn’t it?
De douchio is to busy fighting for the un American illegal immigrant children
Easy to fudge murder figures by reclassification..... murder to drug overdose, suicide.....
you do realize that there is a very large number of crimes that aren’t reported and that precinct officers falsify crime stats. Hahahahahaha.
don’t believe your lying eyes, just believe stats that are given to you from bureaucrats that are rewarded by low crime rates.
“you do realize that there is a very large number of crimes that aren’t reported and that precinct officers falsify crime stats.”
How do they do that with murders?
murders and non-negligent manslaughters per 100,000 residents is manipulated by pushing some of the crimes out of the areas that are reporting as a clerical error. It' been happening for a LONG time.
I've had friends in the NYPD that flat out say that they've asked victims if "Do you really want to file a report? Nothing is going to happen and you're going to have to fill out a bunch of paperwork"....
http://www.latimes.com/local/cityhall/la-me-crime-stats-20151015-story.html
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