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Yeah, it is silly because it's not true. Some people's fear is real because that's all they hear on Fox "News," from republican politicians, and from Trump: migrants or Jews are going to replace you... murderers and rapists from Mexico are flooding into the country -- Trump began his 2016 campaign with that lie -- and there are migrant pickpockets in Times Square! - CO
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There are lots of businesses, big and small, that are closing citing rising crime as the reason. You cite Walgreens as a counter example, but how about CVS, In and Out, Target, Nordstrom, Walmarts, and on and on and on. These closing make the headlines but there are many more smaller mom and pops that are shuttering their businesses without makimg the news.
And "the crazy guy menacing people on a confined subway car is one guy, one incident making the news" misses the point that there were 30 or 40 threatened victims on that subway car and such incidents occur daily. It got so bad that Hochul dispatched the national guard to the subway.
Also, common sense tells me that for every incident of assault that makes it into the crime stats, there are ten others that go unreported. Maybe it is not ten, but it is not zero either.
People stuck living and working in these urban hellscapes have a legitimate concern about their safety. Your side simply dismisses their fear. Do so at your voting booth peril.
But the statistics and reality are clear: crime rates are declining and we've given you the data over and over again and you dismiss it over and over again. - GF
Again, there is a lot of actual crime and fear of crime that goes unreported and is not reflected in the statistics but is reflected in reality. That also should be clear.
