These Are the Policies They Voted For

It is really hard for me to see a majority of people who call Manhattan home ever voting for a "tough on crime" politician. NYC crime spikes in Manhattan's East and West villages

It is also really hard for me to feel sorry for anyone, because as I noted, they voted for this insanity, and will probably keep voting for it. Which is the reason for the tiny violin.

Major crimes are surging in both the East and West villages, turning Manhattan’s once iconic arts and culture hubs into cesspools of rampant property thieves.

Overall major crime is up 54 percent in the East Village, the Bowery and NoHo (Those neighborhoods make up the Ninth Precinct). I will let you click thru for the details, but one did catch my attention.

Vehicle thefts increased from 3 to 12. Which is still a small number, but I wouldn't have expected that many non-attended vehicles to be in Manhattan? I mean, how much does it cost to park a car there?

Anyway, the folks who make up those Arts and Club districts will never stop voting for Progressive politics. At least not until they have been literally mugged, and maybe not then.

I will give the last words to a shopkeeper and a bar owner, both trying to make a go of it in that Deep Blue City.

Leroy “Big Lee” Lloyd, who owns The Hard Swallow bar on 1st Avenue, compared the current state of the neighborhood to John Carpenter’s “Escape from New York,” a classic 1980s dystopian film where Manhattan is converted into a lawless prison island.

And...

Kyle McCoy, who manages Atelier on W. 8th St. ... said there’s no solution because bail reform laws go easy on criminals.

“It’s stupid,” he said. “Shoplifters get a little slap on the wrist.”

Gee... Who would have thought that electing a bunch of politicians - and prosecuting attorneys - who think that punishing criminals is unfair would lead to an increase in crime? No one in New York City, apparently.

"Life's hard; It's harder when you're stupid." (John Wayne never said that, but he should have.)