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In response to "offs, I walked from Times Square to the Port Authority bus terminal at night in 1983. From what I see on TV, its nothing like it was. -- nm" by crash davis

The statistics back you up.

Posted by ty97 Jan 3 '23, 13:41

Certainly there has been an uptick in crime. It's minor, especially in comparison to the 80s/90s, but I'm not gonna sugarcoat the uptick as *good* news. The people spinning it as a war zone though are ridiculous.

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There were drug dealers and porno shops everywhere and not one M&Ms store. -- nm - crash davis Jan 3, 13:44 5
- *everywhere* its quite literally all their was. *That* was a Hellscape. - Jovian Jan 3, 13:45 3
  - Midnight Cowboy was accurate. -- nm - loosilu Jan 3, 14:06
  - I was from small town Idaho. I got separated from my family. I found two cops, both of whom looked 6'4" and had batons like axe handles. I followed - crash davis Jan 3, 13:51
  - and as a troublemaker teenager with a car and only being 25 minutes away. Well...we didnt call it Hellscape then. -- nm* - Jovian Jan 3, 13:47
- M&Ms are like a drug. -- nm - ty97 Jan 3, 13:45

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