Originally Posted By: DB
I wasn't trying to make some all encompassing statement on crime . I was just saying people sometimes forget how many murders went down in NYC back in the day.


I agree. Especially if you didn't spend time here and really feel the difference in the atmosphere then and now. And not just murders, but all kinds of violent crimes.

Originally Posted By: DB
There are no doubt still plenty of disaster areas in the city but I think by and large NYC is less violent than the 90s.


Absolutely. And crime stats back it up.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.


I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?