...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...pledged, using a Dickensian theme, to "take dead aim at the tale of two cities." But he also recognized that "our city government’s first responsibility is to keep our neighborhoods safe."Nearly seven years later, economic inequality under Hizzoner hasn’t changed. But the unequal distribution of serious
Through Aug. 30, the city’s 290 murders and 1,004 shooting incidents represent year-to-date increases of 33.6 percent and 87 percent, respectively. Manhattan has seen 52 murders and 135 shootings this year. About half of those shootings took place in just three of the borough’s 22 precincts — all in Harlem.
In those precincts, killings are up more than 100 percent, year to date. By contrast, precincts covering the West Village, Upper East Side and Upper West Side have seen just two murders and three shootings combined.
In Brooklyn, where murders are up 72 percent — more than double the citywide increase of 33.6 percent — we see a similar disparity. Just four precincts — covering East Flatbush, Brownsville, East New York and Crown Heights — account for more than 57 percent of the borough’s 114 homicides and just under half of its 441 shooting incidents through Aug. 30. Meanwhile,
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the precincts serving Park Slope, Kensington, Brooklyn Heights and Greenpoint have seen a combined total of just three murders and 15 shootings.
Of the 16 precincts in Queens, just two — serving the Rockaways and Jamaica — account for a third of its 150 shootings. Forest Hills and Douglaston, however, have seen no murders and only one shooting all year.
In the Bronx precinct serving Highbridge, 10 murders and 34 shootings have occurred — more gunfire than the entire borough of Staten Island has seen this year. In tony Riverdale, those numbers are just one and six, respectively.
Of 20 precincts compared in this article, the 10 high-crime precincts have seen 105 murders and 369 shootings, while the 10 low-crime ones have seen just six murders and 25 shootings.
De Blasio’s campaign speeches obscured how the risk of victimization by criminals was unequally distributed across the city. He insisted that the representative victim of New York’s two cities was "a black teenager" feeling the need to slide off "his hoodie on the way home from high school, hoping this will be a day when the police let him pass without incident." If the crime data are any guide, that teenager is more likely to be worried about walking past local gang members without incident. And the gang members are probably less worried about the police than they’ve been in some time.