Did you know that New York City TODAY, with no Mafia to speak of, has the lowest rate of sexual assault of any city in the US that reports statistics, and also the lowest rate of property crime? I put “problem” in quotes because NYC has one of the lowest violent crime rates of any large city, too. Most of the homicides are related to illegal narcotics.
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You can thank Giuliani for that. Before I left NYC in 1992 I kept a heavy wrench sticking out of my pocket whenever I went to the ATM on the Upper East Side of Manhattan after dusk to pull more than $20, that is how bad it was. The only place I felt safe after dark in those days was Boro Park (I hardly had reason to go to Williamsburgh at night). I used to see live acts in Manhattan supermarkets that rivaled Eddie Murphy skits – shoplifters getting caught, telling the most outrageous lies, and then coming back again. Complete Somalian style hefkerus.
Giuliani was no-tolerance, no-nonsense. Even I fed the squeegee boys because I needed my windows done. He got them off the streets. Now, the statistics are skewed. It isn’t back to Koch and Dinkins but there is under-reporting going on. All you need is another left-wing mayor, or a new drug, and NY will go back to the dark days.
And yes, sometimes you need to take care of things yourself, of course not with the Mafia but with a real Shomrim (Willy-style), when the cops are tied by lefty do-gooder regulations that keep them from doing what needs to be done to thugs. I just said the word “community patrol” to a tzigane phony meshuluch in Willy and he ran like a rabbit. Even some blocks in Harlem are safe because locals, usually from the Caribbean, took matters (and baseball bats) into their own hands after one robbery too many.
During the Dinkins era, Roy Innis came up with the idea of arming ex-Caribbean policemen to take care of the crime problem. He was right. If criminals knew that someone who looks like a regular citizen just might be armed, they’d think many times before stealing.
Levi Aron is one thing; a psychopath is not deterred but nevertheless has to be erased. Crime is caused by permissiveness and tolerance of crime. Your average thug does not want to go to prison, let alone end up on the chair.
It is the bleeding hearts of this world, who have been disproven time and time again, and just look to impose their will on others and finance themselves with money paid by others, who are just as responsible for crime as criminals are.