Surge of violence in the north Bronx
The New York Times reports that there is a surge of violence in the north Bronx:
The seasonal return of gun violence — a foreign idea to some New Yorkers but a familiar one in the city’s crime-troubled communities — has come early this year to the northernmost neighborhoods of the Bronx: eight killings, five this month, compared with a single murder at this time last year. The number of shootings has nearly doubled.
This is evidence that the end of stop-and-frisk tactics is already resulting in more gun violence.
Thank you Bill De Blasio.
Lion of the Blogosphere 
Someone told me it’s all happening at the zoo.
ScarletNumber
May 18, 2014 at 10:14 PM
Art Garfunkel has a B.A. in Art History and a Master’s degree in Mathematics from Columbia University.
Lion of the Blogosphere
May 18, 2014 at 10:17 PM
http://www.artgarfunkel.com/library/list1.html
bjdubbs
May 18, 2014 at 10:30 PM
Given the nature of math as a subject, wouldn’t you need a BA or BS in Math to qualify for admission to a Master’s degree in Math? I’ve never understood why in any subject you should be allowed to skip a bachelor’s degree and start with a master’s – even in the social sciences. The level of knowledge people have in their own field is appalling enough already even when people do the normal BA to MA progression.. I remember talking to a Greek studies major (he’d gone to college in Canada) and he drew a blank when I mentioned Thucydides’ “History of the Peloponnesian War. Studies have shown that many people with MBAs can’t define “amortize.” My Mom, who was an English teacher in the NYC school system, had a colleague who once asked at a department meeting what the meaning of the word “genre” was.
MaryK
May 18, 2014 at 10:45 PM
I remember talking to a Greek studies major (he’d gone to college in Canada) and he drew a blank when I mentioned Thucydides’ “History of the Peloponnesian War.
He must have lapsed into a period of pre-dementia or was in a coma state when his class was reading Thucydides. Or, unsurprisingly, our education system stinks, as many of our colleges have low standards and admit anyone with half a brain.
JS
May 18, 2014 at 11:32 PM
What does this have to do with gun violence in the Bronx?
CamelCaseRob
May 19, 2014 at 12:35 AM
@CamelCaseRob
“At the Zoo” by Simon and Garfunkel was used in commericals for The Bronx Zoo.
I quoted a lyric from the song that I thought was apropos.
ScarletNumber
May 19, 2014 at 7:14 AM
“I’d rather skip my BA if I could….if I could…if I could…I surely would.”
Sorry,folks. It’s been one of those days. Hey, at least I’m doing something other than defending Staten Island from the “guido” charge!
MaryK
May 18, 2014 at 10:55 PM
NYC is a zoo and it is, given the fact that there is a large NAM population mixed in with a White demographic.
All of us normal New Yorkers will come to grips that our city under the Giuliani and Bloomberg eras was only a status climbing phase, not that of a status de facto one.
A guy whom I encountered recently, who was from San Diego visiting the Big Apple for a month, told me that NYC is an overpriced dump, with large pockets of mediocrity at best, and larger pockets of dysfunctionality, as he was referring to Manhattan and the NAM areas surrounding it.
The only 2 SWPL friendly cities, free from liberal perversion are San Diego and Minneapolis.
TUJ (The Undiscovered Jew) will probably change his tune about our town, when more NAM problems begin to surface, making NYC a less desirable place to live, all thanks to Bill de Blasio.
JS
May 18, 2014 at 11:11 PM
Minneapolis??!! Are you f*ing kidding??!!!!?
sestamibi
May 18, 2014 at 11:32 PM
Minneapolis is FULL of liberal bobo crackers
Ryan_Clark
May 18, 2014 at 11:36 PM
And Somali blacks who hunt whites.
bob sykes
May 19, 2014 at 6:47 AM
Yes, I said a SWPL friendly city, and Minneapolis is one of them. It’s one of the few liberal cities that has both vibrancy and a smaller black population. It also has more amenities than the overcast Portland or Seattle; and these cities are less desirable, not only because of the grey skies, but because of the obnoxious PC liberals typically found in NYC and Chicago, whom people on this blog heavily despise.
JS
May 19, 2014 at 9:57 AM
The problem with Minneapolis is that the winters are COLD, COLD, COLD. Yet the summers are still hot.
Lion of the Blogosphere
May 19, 2014 at 2:09 PM
“SWPL friendly cities […] San Diego”
San Diego is only 45% white, according to Wikipedia. A better name for it might be Sin Blancos.
Mark Caplan
May 19, 2014 at 12:03 PM
Blacks in San Diego are about 6% of the population, now compared that to NYC and Chicago with a whopping more than 20%.
JS
May 19, 2014 at 3:56 PM
The problem with Minneapolis is that the winters are COLD, COLD, COLD. Yet the summers are still hot.
How about SWPLs settling in neighboring Indianapolis, which is a basically the prole version of the Twin Cities?
There aren’t many desirable areas left in America; you have to put up with bad weather, proles or NAMs, and in the big liberal cities, a dose of everything that makes your day.
What about Santa Fe, NM or Austin, TX?
Dealing with Mexicans in Santa Fe is a lot more pleasant than Puerto Ricans in the Northeast.
JS
May 19, 2014 at 4:10 PM
There were many Mexicans in Phoenix, and going into the Mexican neighborhood was not a scary experience like going into a black neighborhood in NYC.
Lion of the Blogosphere
May 19, 2014 at 4:17 PM
Ha! I’m watching “48 Hours” right now, and they’re profiling black-on-black murders one after the other. According to Census.gov, Minneapolis is 19% black – right about at the 20 tipping point.
E. Rekshun
May 19, 2014 at 5:08 PM
“told me that NYC is an overpriced dump”
He was right, of course.
Allerious
May 19, 2014 at 8:01 PM
@JS,
“It also has more amenities than the overcast Portland or Seattle; and these cities are less desirable, not only because of the grey skies, but because of the obnoxious PC liberals typically found in NYC and Chicago.” ————-
The important distinction is that Seattle and Portland are obnoxiously PC because they don’t have many NAMs (or haven’t traditionally, though NAMs are migrating to the cities South of Seattle). There is an inverse correlation in obnoxiousness to one’s distance from a problem. Southerners are least obnoxiously PC because daily observable reality makes PC peter pan-ism too great an exercise in cognitive dissonance. In Seattle, with a black population of just over 7% and an Hispanic population just over 6%, your average Seattle SWPL need have no real contact with undesirable blacks and thus has fewer daily experiences that would disabuse them of their peter pan beliefs. Southerners, by comparison, have no real way to avoid coming into contact with undesirable blacks. It is also worth noting that northern blacks are, on average, more intelligent than southern blacks. Likely because the smarter of the group figured out how to leave Dixie back in the day.
Curle
May 20, 2014 at 12:23 AM
So I was wrong about the Twin Cities with the black percentage.
Well, there always San Diego and the Southwest. Blacks don’t like Cactus.
JS
May 20, 2014 at 12:27 AM
Curle, Both NYC and Chicago are obnoxiously PC.
Unlike Minneapolis, Portland and to a certain extent, Seattle, is also known for its rudeness despite the lack of NAM presence. All cities that tread liberal are rude for the most part.
NYC isn’t as status inducing or exclusive as one makes it out to be. What’s there to brag, when your daily encounters are with proles and NAMs? That’s the NYC experience!
JS
May 20, 2014 at 9:43 AM
“Don’t know much about geography. Don’t know much trigonometry…”
E. Rekshun
May 19, 2014 at 12:14 PM
Awesome. I get small pleasures when stupid leftist ideas get proven wrong. If only people could figure out these things sooner.
Zack
May 18, 2014 at 10:17 PM
i dont see a problem with this. if you love living in liberal shit hole you should accept diversity violence and not complain about it. this is a feature of liberalism not a flaw. i wish for a white liberal genocide on a scale of SA for all liberal in liberal states.
eric Cartman
May 18, 2014 at 10:34 PM
Diversity is our strength and our redeemer.
Sinful white guilt is washed away by the blood drawn by the holy vibrancy.
By their stripes are guilty SWPLs healed.
Oswald Spengler
May 18, 2014 at 10:49 PM
You mean by *our* stripes guilty SWPLs are healed.
Thrasymachus
May 19, 2014 at 10:05 AM
The problem with this thinking s that you’re assuming they’d actually learn from the violence. We have decades to see that liberals never learn. Irving Kristol used to say that a conservative is a liberal who’d been mugged by reality. The problem is that for every liberal who got mugged by reality and became a conservative (neo or otherwise) there were far more liberals who got mugged by reality and simply became angry mugged liberals. What matters is not whether you’ve personally been mugged, but how you interpret and explain the experience.
MaryK
May 18, 2014 at 10:52 PM
Liberals don’t care about learning. They care about status whoring and expanding their green religion. Everyone knows they don’t really behave like they portray themselves in their media. Their propaganda is like a skipping record of a bad Poison song from the 80s.
The Bonfire of the Vanities
May 19, 2014 at 10:22 AM
“Every rose has its thorn” — Ha! It’s an allegory. “Rose” represents a nice, pleasant city. “Thorn” represents the NAMs that make living in that city dangerous.
E. Rekshun
May 19, 2014 at 5:22 PM
In Chicago murders are up due to warmer weather. No change in policy here, just seasonal.
Anthony
May 18, 2014 at 11:06 PM
Ice cream consumption increases crime.
Vince, the Lionhearted
May 18, 2014 at 11:57 PM
Besides certain areas, such as the Loop and the North Sides, it seems like Chicago is 50% black, which is very impressive.
JS
May 19, 2014 at 10:44 AM
Chicago is 32% black overall, and that number has been declining for the last couple of decades. Some of the black neighborhoods on the South Side look like moonscapes because so many people have moved out.
MLH
May 19, 2014 at 5:10 PM
So where are those blacks moving? It seems like a good thing. South side will become the new North Side, like Chicago of the early 20th century?
JS
May 20, 2014 at 9:46 AM
By the way, living in Chicago’s North side, you would encounter blacks less frequently on a daily basis, when compared that to Manhattan in NYC, where the air and sidewalks are open to everyone and free for all.
JS
May 19, 2014 at 4:23 PM
JS: the blacks are mostly moving either to the south suburbs, or out of the Chi. metro area altogether, generally to the South (Atlanta is a popular destination). However, gentrification has yet to start in those emptying South Side neighborhoods. They’re still too decrepit and dangerous.
MLH
May 20, 2014 at 1:01 PM
I think NYPD is sand-bagging. Cops are notorious for giving new mayors what they ask for… good and hard.
Portlander
May 18, 2014 at 11:45 PM
New York City is proclaimed by many to be the greatest city in the world. And Bill De Blasio is the mayor. What a sick joke.
Taylor
May 18, 2014 at 11:57 PM
Fewer people in NYC went to the polls last year. A lot of people didn’t vote, and it was NAMs and Proles in the outer boroughs who voted for him.
JS
May 19, 2014 at 10:10 AM
The greatest city in the world, with a population of 2 million blacks. Would you call that great in any sense?
JS
May 19, 2014 at 10:37 AM
I’m sure many Euro visitors to NYC are completely shocked when they see a bunch of NAMs monkeying around in the streets or worse, when they’re riding the trains to get to the next tourist trap.
JS
May 19, 2014 at 10:48 AM
Euro tourists, and their SWPL suburban resident equivalents, get a vagina tingle when they see NAMs monkeying in the streets; which is a crude way of saying that they confuse the excitement that comes from novelty with “good”. They then go back to their fortresses and lobby and blog for more of what gave them that excitement. Their privileged networks provide positive social reinforcement. The excitement, of course, is fronted by a facade of faux compassion because, let’s face it, admitting to a vagina tingle is bad form. Of course, the kids will go to private schools if the excitement ever makes its way to their school district.
Mike
May 19, 2014 at 3:51 PM
It’s just one relatively small part of the Bronx that’s affected. Most parts of the city continue to have declining crime rates.
Peter
ironrailsironweights
May 19, 2014 at 12:33 AM
Gun violence is down in the city except for this one precinct in the Bronx. Even I can’t see how ending stop and frisk is to blame.
CamelCaseRob
May 19, 2014 at 12:36 AM
The Klan is riding through NYC early this year…
Sanders
May 19, 2014 at 12:47 AM
Has the North Bronx experienced a large influx of Amish?
E. Rekshun
May 19, 2014 at 12:17 PM
(pertaining to NYC 10 years after de blasio’s policies) what’s that you say mrs robinson, whites have left and gone away?
James N.S.W
May 19, 2014 at 1:29 PM
Blacks killing more blacks is not a news.
Colmainen
May 19, 2014 at 2:04 PM
When I visit NYC now I’m shocked at the loss of all the independent businesses. The sheer number of banks, chain stores, and modern condo buildings makes for a much less interesting city. I feel like the only real independent businesses are bars and restaurants.
As for crime in NYC, I think the perception among residents is that it’s quite low. It would take several high profile instances of black on white crime to change that perception, I think.
SWPL2
May 19, 2014 at 4:21 PM
“As for crime in NYC, I think the perception among residents is that it’s quite low. It would take several high profile instances of black on white crime to change that perception, I think.”
It’s doubtful that any of these shootings in the north Bronx would qualify as such. While the shooting of the guy from Massachusetts was interracial, it seems to be a drug deal gone bad rather than predatory street crime.
Peter
ironrailsironweights
May 19, 2014 at 7:20 PM
Agreed. The North Bronx might as well be outer space.
SWPL2
May 20, 2014 at 11:11 AM
“There were many Mexicans in Phoenix, and going into the Mexican neighborhood was not a scary experience like going into a black neighborhood in NYC.”
Mexicans may commit a fair number of crimes, but for the most part they don’t commit too much of the predatory street crime that engenders so much fear. Their violent crimes tend to be gang- or drug-related, and as such don’t present much of a threat to most people.
Peter
ironrailsironweights
May 20, 2014 at 12:32 AM
I never saw Mexican flags hanging in California like what you see in NYC, with Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, and their obnoxiously proud flags of their 3rd world status islands.
If anyone thinks Mexicans are bad, visit NYC or Miami, and your perception of Caribbean Hispanics will change your view of Mexicanos.
JS
May 20, 2014 at 9:52 AM
Mexicans aren’t bad. Would it be better to have Germany on our southern border? Sure. But in the same vein there are a lot of countries that could be a lot worse, think anything Islamic. Think Morocco.
For the record, I think Jefferson f**ked up by not letting Aaron Burr take over the place.
Curle
May 20, 2014 at 8:43 PM
Yes, I hardly ever hear about Mexican-on-white hate crimes. On the other hand, there is one hate crime Mexican gangs specialize in: ethnic cleansing of blacks.
MLH
May 20, 2014 at 10:53 AM
Many Puerto Ricans in NYC love to associate themselves with blacks, hence their loserdom of the all the Hispanics.
Dominicans are basically mulattos with a lot of self hate of blackness, but they are also a riff raff themselves, who get into trouble with the law.
JS
May 20, 2014 at 2:48 PM
I say the Spaniards learn their lesson that multiculturalism/multiracialism is a poison that destroys civilizations. After all, the Reconquista and the Inquisition was to rid of the Jewish and Islamic elements from the Iberian peninsula so that Spain could become a unified nation with one set of norms. Colonizing Latin America was a mistake on their part, hence a moment of delusional greed that turned out to be a disaster. Unlike England and the Anglosphere world, which continues to march on to the multipolar drumbeat, Spain has distance themselves from the New World, and restricted 3rd world immigrants from coming in.
JS
May 20, 2014 at 2:56 PM
” they don’t commit too much of the predatory street crime that engenders so much fear. ”
Yes, but their males are pretty big into theft (unoccupied home burglary, autos, you name it). Lack of fear for personal safety doesn’t mean it’s all peaches and cream. What low standards we now have…
anon
May 20, 2014 at 8:24 PM