And a few paragraphs down ,
Rapes are up 5 percent and auto theft is up by 5 percent while assaults are even. Meanwhile robberies (-10.8 percent), burglaries (-28 percent), grand larcenies (-15 percent) are all down this year.
So while homicides are up 212.5 percent over 2002 this year to date, the precinct's crime rate — the total of those seven crime categories — is actually down by more than 8.5 percent compared to last year. Some civic leaders believe the falling crime numbers are not so much a product of less crime as victims' failure to report it. Clopton said she had seen and heard from the community about "a return to some of the old issues we faced, the car dumping, the prostitution, the drugs and the blatant [display of] weapons. I see people flipping knives and showing guns."
Trends in crime have variability; as long as the drug trade is profitable, there will be seemingly senseless violence. Senator Smith needs a refresher course in the war on drugs and a history lesson about Prohibition to figure it out. And in NYC, its a given that none of the potential victims (except fellow gangsters) will be armed, thanks to 60 years of stupid gun control aimed only at the lawabiding citizen. Of course law enforcement can do very little about it. The gang-bangers own many of these precincts.
10-4. Having lived in NYC some years back and gotten to know my neighbors, it's my opinion there are many conservatives living in the city, but they have not become outraged enough to demand change. I don't understand why.
Its so sad to see, and its going to have a horrible effect on all the good people that have stuck it out here tthrough these last few difficult years.