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WickhamAkimbo t1_iwuqzcy wrote

Reply to comment by fuckyouimin in Weekly Crime Thread - Week of November 15, 2022 by AutoModerator

Murders and shootings are down while burglaries, robberies, assaults, etc are up, and per-rider subway crimes are way up. I'm glad the murder rate continues to fall, but you don't get to straight up ignore these other major crimes, as much as you'd like to.

>This fear is not based on reality...

Fear of being assaulted or robbed is absolutely based on reality. Fear or being harassed or menaced is also absolutely based on reality. You even agreed above that these crimes are up.

>robberies and burglaries are up (which is not surprising in an economic crisis).

What kind of nonsense excuse is this?

Does it bother you that you just ignored a core part of my argument?: "instead of trying to gaslight the majority of the population, why not... address the crime and the policies that allow serial offenders and dangerous people to walk around with dozens of priors and continue hurting innocent people?" Does it not make sense to try to fix that?

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fuckyouimin t1_iww8bvr wrote

There's a difference between addressing policy and spreading fear.

Show me actual numbers (as I did for you).

Is going from 350 to 450 people in a city of 8 million ( 0.004% vs 0.005% chance of being harmed) really a reason to everyone to suddenly fear for their lives?? Or is it manipulation.

You keep arguing that your fear is justified. And I am telling you that is not based in reality. (Or math)

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WickhamAkimbo t1_iwwwzdg wrote

And you dodge the question again! Amazing! You honestly won't even acknowledge these policies. That's incredible. It's like talking to a wall or one of the robots from West World. "Doesn't look like anything to me!"

> You keep arguing that your fear is justified. And I am telling you that is not based in reality. (Or math)

Per-rider subway crimes are up at least 50% and in some parts of the pandemic, double. Harassment and menacing are simply unreported en masse, and dozens of high profile crimes this year have been committed by mentally ill or drug addicted homeless people with dozens of prior arrests, which is totally preventable and totally unacceptable. And the best you can do is just hope that people stop calling you out on that to your face. You don't even have a response. It's laughable.

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