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The Murder That Changed New York City

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  • Mark Rohaley
    Posted October 6, 2015 at 6:01 pm

    that is one sad ass story of pathetic judges cops & agents…one day soon they will burn in hell and get what they deserve

  • lakawak
    Posted August 22, 2016 at 4:03 am

    Holy rap…are you actually trying to give DINKINS the credit for turning the city around?

    This is when you have proclaimed to the world that you have ZERO aspirations about ever being taken seriously as a journalist.

  • Retired highly decorated cop
    Posted December 30, 2016 at 11:15 am

    First of all, my condolences to Watkins family. It is sad fact that daily new victims are added to the murder statistics by bad people. Seemingly, Millions of them. Some how crimnals – who are destroying people’s lives daily are some how the heros and victims. Are people nuts. Having worked in the subway as a cop from the 1980’s – 2002. Some of police magenent ordered cops to stand down. Not catch crimnals – becouae crime management wants to decrease reporting of crime. I never listened. I couldn’t – but u would have to suffer endless desrimnation. Cops catching crimnals are the only hope and supporting the cops that do it .

  • john jones
    Posted January 7, 2017 at 2:15 pm

    Nobody cares until rich white people get killed.

    • Daniel
      Posted April 8, 2017 at 8:47 am

      That’s because poor people do not snitch on the criminals, they protect them.

  • Ryan Rose
    Posted June 21, 2018 at 12:17 am

    I tell you, blaming Dinkins for 1990 crime is nothing short of racist, especially since 1990 was the year he got in and the last year crime rose in NYC. Crime dropped his other three years, which goes widely unrecognized.

  • Marc Burrell
    Posted September 3, 2018 at 2:49 am

    Crime was Dinkins fault. That’s not racism, just the cold hard FACTS. His four years as mayor were NYC’s FOUR LARGEST MURDER TOTALS IN HISTORY, BY FAR. A snapshot:
    1989 (Koch) 1907 murders- Koch’s highest total
    1990 (Dinkins) 2246
    1991 (Dinkins) 2157
    1992 (Dinkins) 1995
    1993 (Dinkins) 1946
    1994 (Giuliani) 1561
    1995 (Giuliani) 1177
    1996 (Giuliani) 983 (first year under 1000 since 1968)
    1997 (Giuliani) 770
    1998 (Giuliani) 633

    • Jarrett Murphy
      Posted September 4, 2018 at 5:48 am

      This is what they call a selective view of history The number of murders in the city rose over much of Koch’s time in power, from 1,392 in 1985 to 1,598 in 1986 to 1,848 in 1988 and up to the 1,907 you mention. The jump didn’t begin under Dinkins, making it simply baseless to argue that “crime was Dinkins’ fault.” And as you can see in the data, the number of murders fell each year he was in office. What Dinkins and the cops and communities of his era deserve is credit for beginning to bring the crime rate down.

  • EB
    Posted March 16, 2020 at 1:36 am

    I just watched the story of Hincapie and it’s so sad that he spent 25 years in prison for something he didn’t do. He wasn’t even on the platform and he had money so he didn’t need to rob anyone. I can’t imagine losing your losing your late teens up until your mid 40s in prison when you’re innocent. He even missed his senior year.
    The bias is just revolting. I am Caucasian and it bothers me that he was treated this way — snatched from his home — never to return with no evidence against him, so these cops could make their collars — beyond pathetic. I support the police.
    I can’t imagine what his family went through from 1990 til today. That’s now 30 years.

  • EB
    Posted March 16, 2020 at 1:38 am

    It’s also sad to see everyone arguing semantics and statistics without caring about this poor kid: Hincapie.

  • Donna
    Posted March 26, 2021 at 12:16 pm

    The judicial system is the most corrupt system within the government. I agree with previous comment, there is a special place in hell for dishonest detectives and prosecutors who knowingly and criminally send innocent people to prison. This is just ONE example of blatant disregard for human life.

  • Donna
    Posted March 26, 2021 at 12:19 pm

    God bless the Hincapie family esp Johnny for all the pain they have endured over so many years. I pray they sue the state for millions!!!

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