Jersey City Fear and Robbery
Here's a map of the burglaries in Jersey City.
The Jersey Ledger points out that downtown is the nexus of the most burglaries, and seems to concentrate on that as a problem.
But I see something different: the cops are doing a great job protecting all the rich white people in the historic downtown district. Take a look - the burglaries are not where the money is.
They are basically letting the poor steal from the poor, it seems. Maybe I'm too cynical, but wouldn't you think there'd be more burglaries where there's more money, unless they have a concerted effort to protect said money.
Am I wrong?
posted by eno at 7:18 AM
10 Comments:
Eno,
Come on now! Crime perpetrated by poor on poor! Good gosh, I didn't know that was possible. Read your sociology!! That's where most of it happens!! I say that all the yuppies in JC are destorying it anyway. You come in here and regentrify the old neighborhoods so you can drink and play all night. Go back to college you whiner!!
LOL. Finally a comment, hilarious. You got me pegged, somewhere between yuppy and hippy, that's fine. Many years out of college, though, and I don't think I was whining.
And 'drink and play all night?' What Jersey City downtown have you been in recently? The nightlife here is putrid.
I guess if the nightlife was better, we'd have more crime downtown.
As for the sociology of my comment, I think it still stands. Sure, the poor steal from the poor. But I think it also stands to reason that the cops protect the rich who pay more taxes. I assume from your tone that you feel that is how things should be done.
But, after reading what the Journal has to say about crime, I am left with the feeling that the cops are protecting the jewel of downtown while letting the rest of the city rot.
That does not seem like the right way to do business.
Che Eno,
The cops, I prefer policemen or policewomen, will protect the power source. Look Comrade Marx, they know who is paying for their 40 hours of overtime and $100,000 salaries!!
The poor prey on the poor because they live in the same neighborhoods. Since they are poor they don't have the means to go uptown and rob people. What are they going to do? Take a bus! LOLOL!! Bring back the Colgate Plant and real working people that actually got their hands dirty!!
I honestly thought Jersey City was an up and coming place. I was looking into buying a Condo and commute to NYC for work. This makes it sound like a very bad idea. I think everyone has this delusion that JC is up and coming. Maybe it is just the small area that the big corporations are buying up. When with this economic burst spread? I don't know if I can wait!!
I don't really know what to do with this. I'm proud to be liberal, so I'm not upset with your Che comments.
But JC is not a huge place. I've walked over to MLK Blvd many times. If I wanted to, I could easily have done so with an ulterior motive.
I'm not promoting the idea that they SHOULD come over here and do that. And I understand why the cops do what they do, it makes money sense.
But parts of JC are pretty bad. It is it too much to ask that some of my high tax dollars should benefit these working class poor that you seem to want 'back' from the good old days? This should be the benefit of the economic boom happening downtown, that the other areas get improved services.
But instead, like you say in your next post, the benefit of the boom is being limited to the downtown area.
And I don't understand why any of this would really be a reason not to move downtown. As we've been saying, there's very little crime there, and there seems to be a litle boom going on.
What this argument should create, in my mind, is the idea that we should use our votes and our voices to make sure that all of JC is included in this boom, and that it's not just the fortunate that should reap the rewards.
That was another poster not me the original anonymous.
Let's make sure that the tax dollars from rich hippie yuppies like you goes to free health care for me and the other residents here at the retirement community. And stop living in big ugly looking apartment buildings!!
I would never call myself rich, and I would never live in a high-rise! I have no need for a doorman, and love my tiny condo in a brownstone. Wish you wouldn't keep throwing names at me!
In the end, it would seem we may have wanted the same things.
Is the downtown area the only safe area to move in JC? You said it is not that big, so what is going to keep the rif-raf out of the downtown area that is up an dcoming?
How long will the gentrification take? I may stick with Hoboken...even though it may be a little more, at least it is in better shape...
I hope not to offend people, but see that green square on the map that extends from the holland tunnel down to the canal, and is bordered on the left by the turnpike?
That's pretty much the only part of JC I'd want to live in. It's easily demarkated, it's much cheaper than Hoboken, and the potential is there.
And as we've been discussing, the police do a good job in that green area.
thanks for posting this eno. besides being a bit unsettled by the cold hard fact that i live in a bonafide orange zone, i find it unsettling how consistently, tirelessly negative and toxic the online presence of jc residents seems to be. anyway thank you for being something more positive out there, people like you stop me from thinking our city is a complete dostoevskyian doomsville.
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