New York, NY – Mayor: City Remains Safest Big City In The Country

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    New York, NY – Crime in New York City fell 5.1 percent last year, slightly outpacing the national average, according to Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

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    Murders in the nation’s largest city by population fell 9.9 percent in 2009, compared with a 7.2 percent decline nationwide, the mayor said, citing data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Robbery and motor-vehicle theft both sank by more than 10 percent, while reported rapes slid 6.5 percent, more than twice the national drop.

    The city’s police department and their law-enforcement partners “continue to prove they can find ways to further drive down crime,” the mayor said in a statement. “Even while faced with the impacts of a severe economic downturn and as the city remains the No. 1 target for terrorists.”

    New York City is the safest of the nation’s 25 largest cities, ahead of San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego, Bloomberg said. Reported crime fell by 5 percent nationwide last year, according to FBI data cited in the statement.


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    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    The city’s police department and their law-enforcement partners “continue to prove they can find ways to further drive down crime,” the mayor said in a statement.

    How do they ‘find ways’?? Just try to report a crime, you’ll find out how they ‘find ways’..

    It’s easier to greet the president personally than to make a police report here in NYC! What a shame.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    lets see if he will let his precincts heads report all crimes,if it will still show a drop in crime…

    Thank the one above
    Thank the one above
    13 years ago

    Maybe all the Mitzvahs and Maasim Tovim that happens every day in New York helps protect the city?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    Bli eyin hara

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    that’s what they said with the titanic as well, and…

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    I’m hasham loi yishmor iar shove shokat shoimer

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    13 years ago

    This city does not feel safer. Everywhere you walk you see cops. People are getting stopped and frisked like it is going out of style. This city is not safer, the police are just going Soviet.

    shimon
    shimon
    13 years ago

    now if people could afford to live in nyc that would be something to crow about

    Logic613
    Logic613
    13 years ago

    This is complete nonsense. The city is not safer, it is much worse. It is now a proven fact that they botch crime statistics. Let law abiding citizens carry guns, like they do in 39 other states. Crime will not only drop, but so will our deficit when they realize that we don’t need 35,000 cops.

    Mentch
    Mentch
    13 years ago

    I don’t believe the so-called crime statistics, given out by the FBI. The FBI is only charged with investigating certain federal crimes. It is not a bookkeeping agency. It relies on reports from hundreds of law enforcement agencies to compile its statistics. The FBI does not check the accuracy of the statistics which are reported to it. I know for a fact that years ago, in the 78th Precinct in Park Slope, if burglar X was arrested, the monthly statistical report, which the detectives published, would state that burglar X was responsible for a number of unsolved burglaries. In other words, the statistics were skewed to show that unsolved crimes were being solved, when they weren’t. Also, other crimes which should have been recorded as felonis, were recorded as misdemeanors; hence, the statistics were not 100% accurate. Therefore, if one multiplies the skewing of crime statistics by one precinct, and multiply that phenomenon by all of the police precincts in NYC, one can see that misleading and inaccurate crime statistics are being reported, and recorded.

    Oh yeah
    Oh yeah
    13 years ago

    Statistics are better. Life is worse.

    Serious crime = cops not interested and dont report or investigate …stats look good

    Average people are targeted for harrassment by cops to produce tickets and revenue

    For a cop its a simple calculation . They can move up the ranks by bothering regular people who generally dont fight back

    OR they could chase unrully, violent and true criminals and put them selves in harms way..

    If i were a cop I’d harrass the luncheon crowd each time..

    welcome to the New Bloomberg NY city

    Bloomberg -Downside= Tickets, fines, harrassment
    Blomberg- Upside = Some G-d Awful waterfall

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    13 years ago

    I’d like to see the Mayor travel ALONE late at night and be on an empty subway car getting off at a pigeon feces covered station and let him say how safe the city is.