New York, NY – Homicides and shootings have dropped dramatically throughout the city in the first three months of the year, NYPD statistics show.
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Eighty eight people were murdered in the city in the first three months of this year, a drop of nearly 21% over the same time period in 2010. Shootings declined 14%, while overall crime was down 3.5%.
But in the 90th Precinct in Williamsburg they saw the biggest increase in crime – up 19.6%, fueled largely by rape, robbery, assault and grand larceny auto complaints. There were no murders in the precinct, but shootings climbed to five from just one in the same period last year.
Jaime Estades, an immigration lawyer who’s lived in Williamsburg for 25 years, blamed the proliferation of nightclubs for breeding brawls, drugs and other problems. “People here wake up all the time in the middle of the night because there are fights outside them,” said Estades, 52.
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If you rent to low class people then you will have high class crime, plus what is the maleh of living in bedford stuyvesant, is that considered williamsburg?
Come on, Most of the new bars are the Yuppies & they wouldnt hurt a fly.
I think cops in williamsburg deserve a medal! the medal of honesty! you see, they come to an assault scene, (I saw one a couple of weeks ago) the accused claims self defense, and cops threaten to arrest the accuser. Even though there are many witnesses, only the accuser is bloodied, where the accused has not a scratch! That’s how cops everywhere play with statistics. Sooo it’s either after covering up, crime is too high, and they get such a high rating, or they don’t know how to cover up!
B”H in the yiddish neighborhood it’s relatively quiet thanx to shomrim who devote their time to protect the residents.
This is rather an increase in reporting crime