Victory neighborhood, Minneapolis - a day in the life...

[Camden Northsider]

Originally Posted by DAS

I don't mean to turn this into a thread about NYC, but one of the main reasons that crime went down was really not because of law enforcement policies, or anything creative done to curb crime.

The influx of drugs into the city started about 60-70 years ago. Crime increased steadily as the drugs kept coming in. Most of the heroin addicts of these periods are either dead or too old to perform those criminal activities that they were engaged in. Crack came and went after a generation because it kills fast.

Younger people that grew up seeing this like myself want no parts of it. So drugs are no longer being sold throughout the city to younger people or by younger people for the most part.

This is what has made the city safer and politicians and others are trying to take the credit for it.

Other things that are now good in the city could succeed once the crime started going down. But it is not as good as they say it is because if you live in any neighborhood you will know of crimes and you will not read about it in the newspapers, or see it on the local nightly news. Some people feel that the numbers are being fudged because they know of so many things that occurred in their neighborhoods and no one outside of the neighborhoods knew about it.

Good points - there's a book you might like that talks about this and other topics, I've only read brief excerpts (still planning to read) but you might like it: It's "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell.

I agree with not turning this thread into one about crime/ NYC (although I think I took it there), I'm still wanting some survey results here!

[green_mariner]

If Victory neighborhood is as good as I hear, then Victory must be the diamond in the rough.