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[quote=Anonymous]I live in NYC. Despite what the Trump-ites will tell you, it's a fairly safe city, especially if you stay out of certain high crime areas.

Recently, the most publicized and scariest crimes are those taking place in the subways. This started during the pandemic when ridership went way down and the homeless moved in. (Some of the homeless who did are somewhat mentally competent and realized that they were actually less likely to get covid living in the subways than in the shelters.) There was room for them to stretch out in the subway and platforms with fewer riders.

As conditions worsened in the subways, fewer people were willing to ride them. And the fewer people who rode them, the more dangerous it became to ride them. Of course, some crime occurs during rush hours, but most violent crime occurs when there are few people around.

So, congestion pricing for vehicular traffic was a huge win. It raises money to fix the subways and buses--which is badly needed because revenue was way down during covid and is still down vs pre-pandemic. Less revenue means less money for maintenance. It meant more people would take the subways and that would mean less violent crime.

But of course, Trump wants to stop congestion pricing--presumably because the ex-urbanites who do hour plus commutes into the City are more likely to vote for him than NYC residents. This means less money to maintain the subways and as they get dirtier, the rat population increasebs. Ridership goes down; there's more crime and then the stupid Trumpites say Gotham is a horrible place and needs Trump to save it.

Add to that the fact that the Trump Supreme Court declared NYC's gun laws unconstitutional and forced the City to water them down.  But , of course, it's the Democrats' "liberal" policies that are causing crime--yeah, right. [/quote]

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