From NY1:Shootings and murders are on the rise in New York City.
According to NYPD statistics, 386 people have been killed so far this year -- a 13 percent increase from the same period last year.
The trend is particularly troubling in certain neighborhoods like the North Bronx, where the murder rate is up 46 percent.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says the rise comes a year after the city recorded the lowest number of murders since the NYPD began keeping track in 1963.
Although the overall crime rate is down 1.5 percent citywide, most felony categories are up -- including a 13.5 percent jump in rapes citywide.
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Less EXPERIENCED cops= more crime.Get used to it........
It has become too hard for police commanders to game COMP-STAT any more, so the truth, suppressed for several years, is beginning to peek thru.
You can thank the disbanding of the Street Crime Unit almost ten years ago, a knee-jerk reaction to the Diallo fiasco. Instead of restoring the unit to the successful endeavor ti was before commissioner Safir tampered with it, the city just decided to cave into civil rights groups altogether. Cops, REAL cops who were still around at the time warned the very few that would listen, that this would have disastrous results for the city years down the line. Well folks, "years down the line" has arrived. Shootings are up but don't worry, all the IMPACT rookies came in with their c summons numbers this month!
Street crime unit? We need cops, not cowboys who shoot up everything in sight with 40 or 50 bullets.
What crime? We are vibrant and diverse. Has anyone noticed that ever since they stopped the STOP AND SEARCH Program, crime is way, way up?
Street crime unit? We need cops, not cowboys who shoot up everything in sight with 40 or 50 bullets.
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Let's not get into a factual debate on the Diallo incident, I would bury you on that.
If you read my post, I suggested that the Street Crime Unit WAS staffed by professional police officers who knew what to look for, and employed outstanding tactics and powers of observation to get thousands of guns off the streets, including the gun that might have had your ungrateful ass or one of your loved ones in its sights.
Anon#3 We did God's work......
Anon#3 We did God's work......
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You guys definitely did, and it is unfortunate that so many people walking and breathing today don't even realize that they owe their lives to you.
Shootings are up,the number of hospitals down.......
"Has anyone noticed that ever since they stopped the STOP AND SEARCH Program, crime is way, way up? "
Last time I went outside police stopped and searched ANYONE they wanted/deemed ???searchworthy???
Sto & frisk has not stopped..........only the computer database has chaged...wink,wink....
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