Four city slays in single night (Bloomberg's NYC)

NY Post ^ | 6/21/10 | JAMIE SCHRAM

[jimbo123]

A Bronx teen was killed early yesterday by a machete-wielding fiend during a wild night of random violence that left four people dead across the city in less than three hours, police said.

[jimbo123]

Obama voters killing Obama voters. And Bloomberg wants to shut down their local McDonalds to keep them safe.

[EQAndyBuzz]

I think more lights on the basketball courts will solve this problem. Then hire more cops to watch the courts.

[Trust but Verify]

That’s all? The Chicago Trbune boasted of 37 shootings in Obamaland over the weekend. Those New Yorkers are pikers!

[AzaleaCity5691]

For a city with the population of New York 4 murders in a night is not really that high of a murder rate. If New York had 4 murders a day every day this year it would still have a lower per capita homicide rate than the city I live in.

[Senator Pardek]

20 years ago, that would have been considered a slow night.

[Lurker]

20 years ago, that would have been considered a slow night.

In Chicago it's a slow night now.

[jimbo123]

I remember the old days 20 years ago with almost 2300 murders a year. Babies getting hit by stray bullets in their cribs. David Dinkins in a tuxedo going to a tennis match while 15-20 democrats were getting murdered each weekend. But things are ramping back up again under Mayor Mike and The Kenyan.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

When I as a boy growing up in Queens, there were about 50 homicides a year in NYC. When I left for good during Dinkins Terror, there were about 1000 a year, literally. I believe the rate approached 2000 per year. Nowadays it’s leveled off at 500 per year and people think that that’s the new normal.

I miss the country I grew up in.

[Carley]

Dinkin’s second term.

[NativeNewYorker]

At the top of the murder market under Dinkins, NYC **averaged** a murder every four hours for a full year. My home town is a veritable Eden of peace and love these days.

[DuncanWaring]

...a machete-wielding fiend ...

MS-13?

[rightwingextremist1776]

Was the machete micro-stamped? How about the owner...did they go through a complete background check? Bloomberg is such a putz.

[Alberta's Child]

Good point, but these murder statistics can be very misleading. I believe the decline in murder rates in New York City over the last 20-25 years isn't primarily attributable to the fact that the city is safer. I think it's mainly a function of dramatic improvements in trauma care over that period of time. I think you'll find similar declines in auto accident fatality rates in New York City, and I know for sure that New Yorkers ain't driving any better today than they were back in the 1980s.

[NativeNewYorker]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/322928/Langan-rel

Robberies and assaults - items not influenced by trauma care improvements - have also fallen dramatically.

[Godwin1]

Improvements in trauma care AND changing demographics. Gentrification has driven members of groups tending to criminal behavior to near suburbs on Long Island and elsewhere. Eager young recent college grads now occupy neighborhoods formerly inhabited by crime-prone parasites in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens. And recent waves of foreign immigrants—from Asia and South Asia—are far less prone to street crime than previous decades’ immigrants from our own hemisphere.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In my new hometown no one even remembers the last time there was a murder. There was one in the next town over in 1981, a guy was having an affair with a woman in the same church choir. When she told him she had decided to stay with her husband, the lover killed the husband while he was jogging. I like it here.

[NativeNewYorker]

NYC is a funny place. If you map violent crimes to neighborhoods, the risk profile is pretty clear. We can go a few years without a murder in my precinct, but barely a few weeks without one just a few blocks north.