Re:In NY major crime complaints fell when cops stopped ‘proa...
by anjc on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:19PM
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> car breakins are not infrequent in the urban US. Ours was probably particularly frequent because it was being targeted by some sort of organized setup, but it is not uncommon.
> Generally sounds like you'll probably want to stay in suburbia.
So the poster you replied to was correct to say that they can just move to cities where it isn't accepted that cars are frequently broken into. They don't have to stay safe in suburbia after all.
Re:In NY major crime complaints fell when cops stopped ‘proa...
by MiroF on Friday May 29, 2020 @01:25PM
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It is still quite frequent, if not as frequent as I experienced it (still, incidence is quite high in the Bay for instance). I don't really feel like mustering the mental energy to argue with what are ultimately pretty nit-picky objections.
In sum, car breaks in happen, policing it generally doesn't work very well, stop & frisk is bad, don't vote for people who do it, thank you for coming to my ted talk.
I don't know how you have knowledge of the normal number of car break ins in every neighborhood of every city in Europe, but yes car breakins are not infrequent in the urban US. Ours was probably particularly frequent because it was being targeted by some sort of organized setup, but it is not uncommon.
It's a function of the amount of inequity - Europe is generally has somewhat less wealth inequity in the United States and less generational poverty.