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Originally Posted by Icky Thump
I was in Manhattan around noon yesterday and I saw an average of one cop car per block so I call bullshit. I call bullshit on the whole Mamet rat story too.
ETA, I have been going there once every two weeks or so. Yesterday Manhattan was more populated than it was the prior two times.
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There's quite a bit of historical evidence that people staying home - during weather events (or just cold) and even things like when there are popular video games released - crime goes measurably down. I'd start with things actually being quite a bit safer right now being the default assumption. What a Stern staffer said is far from enough to overcome that presumption for me, but ymmv. Also, I'm going to go out on a (pretty sturdy) limb and guess that the staffer is white, given that the presence of police makes him feel safer.
That said, they two or so times I've been downtown in the last month and a half have felt weird because people experiencing homeless seemed to be almost the only people around. They're always around, of course, but there's usually others around too.
