Former Barclays VP Investment Banker Murdered in Times Square Subway station this week
story below:
https://nypost.com/2022/01/16/what-we-know-about-…
Michelle was a former VP at barclays and currently working at Deloitte in their M&A practice.
NYC is truly a shithole. In the past few weeks we've seen:
- Numerous subway murders of people getting pushed onto tracks (including the story here I linked)
2. a 19 year old girl working the night shift at burger king shot in the stomach by a robber
https://nypost.com/2022/01/14/east-harlem-residen…
- columbia grad students stabbed and killed (not to mention the tessa majors murder last year at clumbia as well...also a stabbing)
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2021/12/03/new-yo…
also some highlights
- a broad daylight shoot out in times square where a 4 year old was hit by a stray bullet
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/times-squar…
I'm done with this city and the scum that live here. I can't even keep track of all the insane broad daylight murders/shootings/stabbings/people being pushed onto subway tracks.
I'm moving to the suburbs and getting away from these animals(Srs)
(((Cultural enrichment)))
Imagine going through the hell of IB, grinding away your 20's 30's to secure a better future for yourself and your family, only to have it end because some animal decides to randomly push you onto the tracks in broad daylight in one of the most busy stations in NYC.
She was a volunteer at an organization that helped homeless people get off the streets too.
I am at the point now where I don't feel comfortable riding the subway in this city. When that's the situation, the cost of living and TAXES are not worth it at all.
deBlasio's mentally-retarded ass has ruined the city. Do you think Eric Adams will be able to fix it? At least he admits there's a problem.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nyc-mayor-eric-adams-says-even-he…
"NYC Mayor Eric Adams Says Even He Doesn't Feel Safe on Subway System"
This guy is trying to claim that Jews are somehow masterminding these crimes. ((())) is an anti-Semitic dogwhistle.
https://www.ajc.org/translatehate/echo
Yeah whites are at fault as are blacks. Both groups well established in the USA, hardly immigrant communities.
Fuck the homeless. We voted in Adams because we thought he'd go hard on crime, but there's no indication. Get them out of here.
Give me a break. The guy has only been the mayor for like two weeks.
Also, minorities voted in Adams because they actually wanted someone that would be tough on crime, which is what a lot of people don't understand. Yes, most black and brown people in neighborhoods like Harlem and the Bronx actually want safer neighborhoods because everyone in those areas knows who the criminals are. The 50 year old black woman living alone in a crime ridden area actually wants more police. Go ask those folks if they want to defund or abolish the police. Looking at the primary election map, everyone in the usual Brooklyn/Manhattan neighborhoods that WASPy folks live in wanted Kathryn Garcia or Maya Wiley. We will see what he does but give the guy a chance.
The woke bullshit that comes from the left mostly comes from 1) white liberals that don’t live in neighborhoods affected by violent crime and 2) a select group of “woke” black liberals in Brooklyn/Manhattan that are out of touch with what the average black or brown person in NYC actually wants. If that was the case they would not have voted for a former cop, black or not.
This guy has been mayor for less than a month…
This is fair but I’d really like to see him make a point by doing some things quickly. One thing that comes to mind is plain clothes police units, that should be an ASAP kind of thing.
The real problem is Alvin Bragg, the new District Attorney who does not want to prosecute gun possession, theft under a certain amount, certain assaults, resisting arrest, etc.
Bring back stop and frisk.
More cops with more power to make arrests and use force.
Get rid of the bail reform laws
Broken window style enforcement. If you hop a turnstile you get arrested etc. Subway is a privilege not a latent right.
Homeless have to leave. Bus them to another beta liberal progressive mayors city so they can be someone else's problem (mayor wu of Boston im looking at you)
All the weirdos in times Square need to go. Clear them out(elmo, cowboy brah..all.of them).
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Ridiculous comment, that cop killed him. That's why they rioted.
You savage little low IQ chimp. You're clearly just trying to push your vicious agenda which is some bizarre white nationalist manifesto.
Both situations were bad. The reason why there is less outcry for this particular murder is obviously because she is perceived as "wealthy" and a part of the system that many identify as keeping them back in life.
Don't expect sympathy if you work for an investment bank.
1. Stop and frisk has been well-researched and had essentially 0 effect on crime reduction. 2. It is so completely, wildly unconstitutional and should be easy to see that - imagine the NYPD had an officer on every corner from 60th-90th on Park Ave and stopped and frisked 50% of young white men between 18-30 in that stretch. How do you think people would feel about stop and frisk then? Being born in a bad neighborhood and being young and black/Hispanic does not void your 4th amendment rights.
Tricky subject, depends what type of bail reform you are talking about. Conditioning imprisonment on wealth/access to bail funds is something we should be very, very skeptical of - it's a stone's throw away from debtor's prison.
Putting aside the constitutionality of it, stop and frisk is ineffective
dEfUnD tHe pOliCe! Honestly why I want to avoid ever taking the subway in NYC. So many shitty stories about people getting pushed onto the tracks by low life, piece of shit scumbags. Really sad story and wishing the best for her family
I think a major issue is that life is better for the homeless in prison which incentivizes them to behave like a criminal. They do a cost benefit analysis - they get free food, shelter, healthcare, etc in prison vs. being homeless in the cold. Idk what the solution is and I pray for her family for the horrible tragedy.
I actually believe this is some of their thinking especially during colder months. One of my friends in DC said a dude on the subway was saying he missed jail and that every day was Thanksgiving in jail (this was around the Thanksgiving holiday). I found it comical, but would also be scary riding with the guy who wants to go back to jail.
There are many ways to go to prison that don’t involve murdering innocent people.
Love the reasoning from anecdote. Is the breaking point 4 NY Post stories about individual murders in a city of 8.5 million, or 5? Perfectly fine to get upset about increased violent crime, because that's very much a thing in the past 2-3 years. However, if you take a step back and look at the larger picture, the story is the same pretty much everywhere in the US. Red states, blue states, red cities (not that there are many), blue cities - all have seen significant increases in violent crime (especially the murder rate) over the past 3 years. The leaders of the pack (in % increase) from a state perspective are Montana, Kentucky, Delaware and South Dakota. Did DeBlasio ruin them too? (source: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/10/27/what-we-know-about-the…).
Bottom line is the entire country has been experiencing a wave of violent crime over the past 2-3 years and no one is 100% sure why it's happening.
The bottom part is such a cop out, no pun intended. Cities have been and are actively weakening their police forces between defunding and the rhetoric alone. You think the NYPD is walking around doing active police work right now or are they just showing up after the fact? They have heard the message from society and politicians loud and clear, they’re not working actively anymore.
It's really not if you try and look at research on the topic vs. just using confirmation bias. Did the rhetoric around policing (defunding, etc) have an impact? Almost certainly. Was it the only thing that contributed? Definitely not. If I were coming at it from the other partisan point of view, I'd put it all at the feet of gun purchases, which hit record highs in 2020 and 2021, and one of the most robust findings in all of criminology is that more guns=more murders. However, it's almost certainly a mix of both, and I am willing to say at this time I have no idea how to assign percentages to either or to another X factor that we haven't seen or thought of. Here are some of the ideas criminologists have been bandying around (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/18/briefing/crime-surge-homicides-us.ht…).
City-funded NYPD spending is set to increase 4.7% in FY 2022 vs. FY 2021, up to $10.4bn. Funding isn't the problem, the police just don't do their jobs.
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I know the media would have you think otherwise but actual studies and official law enforcement statistics show that the offenders in the vast majority of anti-Asian crimes are white
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https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/ye…
source? simply not true based on everything Ive read about crime
Y'all love to complain and whine only when it hits the press and you fall for fear mongering, but don't care day to day or care to think or execute on ways that can improve communities and the city whether it's volunteering and activism or engaging in public policy and running for office.
Armchair theorists are never in short supply...
Michelle was literally a homeless advocate and was murdered.
There's no dealing with these animals anymore. You are very naive.
Thank you for proving my point. Never was it saying one volunteer will fix a systematic issue, but rather how quickly everyone shifts to finger pointing online... You are very naive.
People are frustrated here because they pay a large share of NYC taxes to the city government who is expected to come up with these 'solutions' that you mention. Expecting people to both pay taxes and improve the community makes little sense at all, because the same people who can afford taxes can easily afford to move out of the city and go live in Jersey or CT instead.
Sure buddy. If I were to run as NYC mayor as Giuliani 2.0 would you vote for me. If not, then you cant talk because Giuliani is the only real anti-crime mayor in modern NYC history (BBerg did bugger all). If you would then I'm sorry to tell you you but there arent enough people to NYC to vote for a right mayor so its futile. You cant win. Or you're wrong. Either way same result.
This is a terrible crime, taking life from such a kind soul. Hate to say this but NYC is turning into a fucking Gotham City and we need real batman more than ever. God save us.
2021 figures:
NYC: ~500 murders / 8.5 million people = 6 murders per 100k
LA: ~400 murders / 4 million people = 10 murders per 100k
Colorado Springs: ~40 murders / 500k people = 8 murders per 100k
Oklahoma City: ~500 murders / 650k people = 77 murders per 100k
Jacksonville: ~100 murders / 900k people = 11 murders per 100k
Yeah, NYC is definitely the unsafe city
Most of the increase in crime isn't violent crime such as murders. That gets the most headlines as it elicits the most fear, but isn't what impacts quality of life the most. It's "petty" crimes such as knife/gun intimidation, car break-ins, petty theft, drug violence, increased physical (non-fatal) conflict etc. that has gotten worse and unfortunately due to the fact crime has been consistently redefined in the past few years, these "petty crimes" are often unprosecuted or not even investigated due to call overflow.
Those are real problems and absolutely merit discussion. It's also worth keeping the big picture in mind in light of the fear mongering - crime spiked across the US in 2020, including NYC but also including cities like Dallas, Atlanta, etc. NYC remains one of the safest big cities in America - you're several times more likely to experience violent crime in most other big cities around the country.
We shouldn't lose sight of quality of life indicators and enhancing the daily experience for everyone, but it's not productive to say things like "turning into Gotham" and "murders in broad daylight" just because there are more people here and things get national attention... 10x as many people per capita are dying in Miami, and yet we don't sit here talking about how people should wear bullet proof vests to the beach. Millions of people ride the subway every day (even now, albeit fewer than 2 years ago)... this crime is horrific, but it's still an outlier
Editing to add what I posted elsewhere:
Looking at murder rates (because data integrity is tougher for other crimes but murders are pretty standardized), NYC is the 20th safest out of the top 100 cities in America. There are only really 3 ahead of it that are major cities - San Diego, San Jose, and Austin.
Looking at total violent crimes, it's 42/100, so safer than 58 (but still few major cities ahead of it). Looking at property crimes, it's the 5th safest. It's important to note that people don't feel safe, but it's also important to look at data - facts vs feelings and all that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_crime_rate
The fact that you’re comparing NYC to even more unsafe cities at the very least suggests NYC is one like the others on the list.
That's not how comparisons work...
It keeps going:
Dallas - 220 murders / 1.3M population = 16 murders per 100k
Houston - 473 murders / 2.3M population = 21 murders per 100k
Charlotte - 96 murders / 875k people = 11 murders per 100k
Miami - 249 murders / 450k people = 56 murders per 100k
Atlanta - 158 murders / 505k people = 31 murders per 100k
Nashville - 101 murders / 700k people = 14 murders per 100k
All those growing Sun Belt cities have murder rates several times to an order of magnitude higher than NYC...
Don't use data, it conflicts with feelings. I do think it's ironic how there's so much conservative hate for the prioritization of "lived experiences" (I personally hate it as a moderate because it's anecdote>data) but when it comes to crime no one wants to hear crime stats they just want to talk about the alert they saw on Citizen last week.
Guys, no joke, I bought a bullet proof vest this year. Not for the bullets, but it's supposedly knife resistent too. I've been attacked several times in the past year.
https://safelifedefense.com/product-category/body-armor/concealable/
NyC iS cOmPletEly SafE yoU FeaR MOngEreR!
what the fuck kinda dystopia is this that a well educated, and hopefully sane, individual has to wear a bullet proof vest to feel safe in NYC
That’s horrible to hear. Stay safe bro.
New York City is nasty as hell man. Literal hellscape.
RIP to this woman and condolences to her family. Sad that people are using this woman's death to serve some sort of political end game. This was a random, terrible, occurrence instigated by a mentally ill homeless individual. Not sure how stop and frisk or more police would've prevented it. But this is the world we live in, everyone is now a politician in the sense that people see an event and somehow try and "capitalize" on it for political "gain" - all from their couches and offices. Anyway, RIP to this woman. Unfortunately, life can be randomly cruel sometimes.
RIP Michelle, an extremely sad story.
I have been saying this about the city yet people respond telling me it's the best city in the world.
She never even saw him coming. The emotions of confusion and betrayal(?) she must have felt in those final moments. RIP🙏🏼
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