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re: The narrative about cities turning into shite holes
Posted on 8/7/25 at 9:04 pm to Saint Alfonzo
Posted on 8/7/25 at 9:04 pm to Saint Alfonzo
quote:
NYC has definitely gone down hill.
This is the best one yet. Time Square certainly way way nicer, and the Guardian Angels just wore red berets because they thought they were cool.
This is next-level misplaced nostalgia smh.
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 9:05 pm
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Posted on 8/7/25 at 9:11 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
quote:
Burglary is legal?
Know what Chicago calls a carjacking?
A misdemeanor.
quote:
Out of 1,127 arrests related to carjackings last year, 949 ended in charges of criminal trespassing to a vehicle, which is a misdemeanor. The other 178 resulted in charges for vehicular hijacking or armed vehicular hijacking.
LINK
Are you new to how the system works?
quote:
Carjackings Plummet!! Police Have Success!! City is Safe!!
Posted on 8/7/25 at 9:15 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Who are you trying to convince?
Posted on 8/7/25 at 9:27 pm to N.O. via West-Cal
quote:People hate facts.
The idea that New Orleans is worse now than 30 years ago is contrary to all evidence. The huge project are gone and crime— especially murder—is way, way down. By no means am I saying everything is great but facts Trump nostalgia.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 9:34 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
quote:
This is the best one yet. Time Square certainly way way nicer, and the Guardian Angels just wore red berets because they thought they were cool.
This is next-level misplaced nostalgia smh.
What in the frick does NYC from 50 and 60 years ago have to do with today? From the '90s and 2000s until now, NYC has fallen off. An illegal immigrant fricked a corpse on a subway train, gtfoh. We just moved from the New York/New Jersey metro area, so you can kindly stfu, you don't know what you're talking about.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 9:36 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Yes
Posted on 8/7/25 at 9:38 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
It’s true and you won’t convince me otherwise. I travel a lot for work. The downtown core of every city I’ve been to is significantly worse than it was in the years leading up to the pandemic:
San Francisco
Atlanta
Chicago
Houston
Minneapolis - possibly the worst decline
Los Angeles
Dallas
Memphis
New Orleans
New York
All with way more “for lease” signs. The surviving restaurants often have shorter hours. The sketchy characters aren’t as outnumbered as they used to be. Fewer people are going to work in person and it shows.
San Francisco
Atlanta
Chicago
Houston
Minneapolis - possibly the worst decline
Los Angeles
Dallas
Memphis
New Orleans
New York
All with way more “for lease” signs. The surviving restaurants often have shorter hours. The sketchy characters aren’t as outnumbered as they used to be. Fewer people are going to work in person and it shows.
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 9:40 pm
Posted on 8/7/25 at 9:54 pm to member12
Seattle is one of the safer big cities with a murder rate of about 4-7 per 100,000 most years. Irvine is the safest city of 300,00 plus with a murder rate of less than 1 per 100,000 most years. Irvine is majority Asian and about 2% Black. Demographics are destiny.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 10:01 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
quote:
Some sad MF’s
The mirror never lies
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 10:02 pm
Posted on 8/7/25 at 10:04 pm to member12
I have been in all of these, save NY (frick that place) over the past few years. Compared to a decade ago, they are all the absolute definition of a shithole.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 10:06 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:
People hate facts.
There aren't any here regarding the bullshite that cities are better,.
Mobile sure as shite is not.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 10:14 pm to RohanGonzales
quote:Compared to which time period? Violent crime from 25 years ago was almost certainly significantly higher in Mobile than today.
There aren't any here regarding the bullshite that cities are better,.
Mobile sure as shite is not.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 10:14 pm to Icansee4miles
quote:Weird. NY is very nice.
save NY (frick that place)
Posted on 8/7/25 at 10:16 pm to member12
quote:
It’s true and you won’t convince me otherwise. I travel a lot for work. The downtown core of every city I’ve been to is significantly worse than it was in the years leading up to the pandemic:
San Francisco
Atlanta
Chicago
Houston
Minneapolis - possibly the worst decline
Los Angeles
Dallas
Memphis
New Orleans
New York
What IS true for at least some of these downtown cores is that daily visitor count has not returned to pre-pandemic levels. I think in SF and Seattle, it's still like .4 of what it was. This implies that, despite crime being "at the same level" it was in 2019, you'd be 2.5X more likely to be actually victimized.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 10:16 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Sooo you’re talking about cities in red states where the state politics won’t allow the cities to go to absolute complete shite due to radical leftism. Let’s talk about some blue cities in blue states. That’s where they’re absolute shitholes. And Knoxville & Macon as examples.. lmfao
Posted on 8/7/25 at 10:19 pm to Saint Alfonzo
quote:By which metric? Almost all violent crime is way lower now than it was in those years. I mean WAY lower.
From the '90s and 2000s until now, NYC has fallen off.
quote:Just because we have the internet and you know more about specific crimes now, don't kid yourself into thinking whack shite didn't always happen.
An illegal immigrant fricked a corpse on a subway train, gtfoh.
Perhaps you remember the token clerk burned to death at his work station in 1995?
Posted on 8/7/25 at 10:21 pm to West Seattle Dude
quote:The problem with Seattle isn't murder, it's other crimes. And like I said, the downtown core has way less foot traffic than it used to, thus one is MORE likely to be victimized than 5 years ago (by a lot).
Seattle is one of the safer big cities with a murder rate of about 4-7 per 100,000 most years. Irvine is the safest city of 300,00 plus with a murder rate of less than 1 per 100,000 most years. Irvine is majority Asian and about 2% Black. Demographics are destiny.
Posted on 8/7/25 at 10:26 pm to Big Scrub TX
quote:
Just because we have the internet and you know more about specific crimes now, don't kid yourself into thinking whack shite didn't always happen.
Perhaps you remember the token clerk burned to death at his work station in 1995?
As a native New Yorker, I'm telling you and the other doofus that wants to play stupid numbers games, you're full of crap. NYC is a shittier place than it was 10-20 years ago. Fact, deal with it. ::
This post was edited on 8/7/25 at 10:26 pm
Posted on 8/7/25 at 10:35 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
They aren't wrong... there's a reason cities like Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis and Macon (bro, Macon is still sketchy af) are shitholes while cities like Huntsville and Knoxville are nice...
Posted on 8/7/25 at 10:47 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
New Orleans. But it doesn’t matter if it’s
Baton Rouge
Atlanta
Chicago
LA
SF
NY
Houston
People didn’t used to shite on downtown sidewalks. Crime used to be in the hood 20-30 years ago because it was and is easy to police a downtown area. After defund/floyd/covid/biden nobody in their right mind wants to do that job anymore.
You might have to just use the hose and whip some arse for a little while to bring it back where it needs to go.
Baton Rouge
Atlanta
Chicago
LA
SF
NY
Houston
People didn’t used to shite on downtown sidewalks. Crime used to be in the hood 20-30 years ago because it was and is easy to police a downtown area. After defund/floyd/covid/biden nobody in their right mind wants to do that job anymore.
You might have to just use the hose and whip some arse for a little while to bring it back where it needs to go.
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