WickhamAkimbo t1_jb0nu17 wrote on March 5, 2023 at 3:14 PM

The city generally feels safer recently vs last year. Last January and February were awful.

Rottimer t1_jb1zz30 wrote on March 5, 2023 at 8:46 PM

That tends to happen once the election year is over and the papers aren't highlighting every other crime to ask potential candidates exactly what they're going to do about it.

WickhamAkimbo t1_jb24eh5 wrote on March 5, 2023 at 9:17 PM

Garbage logic in line with the MAGA morons that said the coronavirus would disappear after the 2020 election and only existed as a political ruse. Crime in NYC provably jumped a huge amount as the pandemic started and has yet to recover to prepandemic levels, even though it has improved.

You're incapable of viewing the issue through a non-political lens or giving two shits about victims of crime.

Rottimer t1_jb254hj wrote on March 5, 2023 at 9:22 PM

It's exactly because I'm looking through a non-political lens that I can say that. Crime in the entire country provably jumped a huge amount during the pandemic and has yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels. But the same bullshit arguments used against progressives to blame them for crime in NYC are not used or even brought up against Republicans in far redder states where crime remains higher than in NY or in their cities.

So please, go on and tell me how political I'm being when this shit only ever matters to your ilk when you can point a finger at someone that leans to the left.

wazzzzah t1_jb8epy7 wrote on March 7, 2023 at 5:03 AM

Regarding the red-vs.-blue divide, I think it's always relevant to note the cities in red and even very red states are often blue; for instance, while Georgia, Louisiana, Kentucky, and Tennessee all voted by a large margin for Trump in 2016, Atlanta, New Orleans, Louisville, Memphis, and Nashville each voted overwhelmingly for Hillary. That's why trying to split the country in some way is an impossibility, as there'd be dozens of blue islands surrounded by hundreds of square miles of red territory, and that certainly goes for New York State.