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Crime and Punishment Have Both Plummeted in Bushwick

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  • EHP10029
    Posted August 7, 2019 at 3:41 pm

    This sort of lazy, “hand-fed” statistical reporting only serves to promote gentrification. Point-in-fact: lawlessness was a citywide phenomenon in the “bad-old” days. The rampant dumping of drugs and environmental waste in low-income communities certainly didn’t help. Slumlords, government redlining, and “benign neglect” on the part of city agencies are also what led to those stats you cite. Do your homework; be more nuanced. Stop repeating city hall’s pro-rezoning mantra. As Larry Davis once said: “The police sell drugs too!”

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      Jarrett Murphy
      Posted August 7, 2019 at 4:56 pm

      What exactly do you dispute? I am confused. Does the fact that statistics indicate people of color are still disproportionately stopped mean we should not talk about statistics? Does the fact that crime has fallen mean redlining didn’t occur?

  • Bushwick Projects OG
    Posted January 31, 2020 at 1:18 am

    Blacks and Latinos are disproportionately arrested, because they are disproportionately responsible for the crime, especially the violent crime, the rapes, armed robberies, shootings, etc.. We have to own that. It’s called accountability. Stop blaming racism or gentrifiers or some world problems. The Swedish intern/performance artist, the Tufts grad and the preppy hedgefund new hire aren’t putting in work for the YGz or the local blood set. It’s the criminal subculture, and all cultures ain’t equal. Still, the old Puertorican restaurant on Flushing by the PJs is now an organic Farmer’s Market. The old Boricua bakery is a yoga studio. There’s nowhere near the crime now as there was in the 90’s.

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