Is it Michael Bloomberg or the economy? The Daily News has an opinion piece that faults Bloomberg for not addressing rising crime rates in New York City.
In Brooklyn‘s 71st Precinct, which covers southern Crown Heights, murders are up 40% this year compared with 2007, contributing to a 35% increase in murders across southern Brooklyn.
Remember the shopkeeper who turned around an attempted robbery on his store by wrestling the gun away from the perpetrators and killing two of them? And then in Bed-Stuy, there was the recent stabbing of an MTA bus driver.
Thomas was senselessly stabbed to death while piloting a bus through Bedford-Stuyvesant, one of the neglected neighborhoods suffering horrific outbreaks of violence.
And those aren’t even the most drastic numbers; Queens South crime rates have soared 69%.
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