> Crime is spiking in NYC right now and it's not really a priority to report it.
How can you know this? If it is not being reported, you must be relying on anecdotal reporting? Reddit, nextdoor, facebook?
How can you know this? If it is not being reported, you must be relying on anecdotal reporting? Reddit, nextdoor, facebook?
Before the pandemic crime had spiked for certain things, like misdemeanor assaults and robberies, I want to say 20+ percent. The politicians use Major Crimes, because it makes them look better as they go down and you can also make them go down by downgrading indictments or pushing people who report crimes so it's filed differently (if you've been the victim of robbery they'll do everything to lower the value of the items, as one example). But you can view CompStat data from before the pandemic. DAs accused the NYPD of exaggerating but DAs had already begun to decline to prosecute. Also the discovery rules just got more strict.
Now logic for the present moment: a large percentage of the NYPD is out sick, a lot of people have no income and there's no one in the street. Would you feel safe? There are regular strongarm and knife-point robberies reported on Citizen near where I live.
I don't want to claim that there isn't a spike in crime. There may well be. But you really have to be careful in relying on what you see reported on these apps. Especially with so many people at home, nervous and stressed out.
Also, Detroit's murder rate has just spiked by 50 pct and shootings by 30%, because you can't 'hide' that or hand wave that away.