Fear of Crime Permeates New Yorkers’ Psyche, Poll Reveals

By:  Don Driggers

New York’s NY1 Spectrum News and Sienna College released the results of a recent poll that show that seven out of ten New Yorkers fear being the victim of a violent crime. The New York Post reports, about 76% of residents are “very concerned,” or somewhat concerned, they’ll be targeted amid the Big Apple’s ongoing crime wave, according to the Poll released Tuesday”.

43% of people responded they were concerned when asked, “how concerned are you that a shooting in which a gunman targets people based on their race, religion or ethnicity will happen in your neighborhood”.

70% of New Yorkers said they feel less safe now than before the COVID-19 pandemic started, compared to just 3% who said they feel safer, according to The New York Post.

The mayor was also targeted by the poll, with 450 people out of the thousand people who were asked, responding that they were unhappy with the way Mayor Eric Adams is doing his job, especially when it comes to being tough on crime. New Yorkers seem to blame Mayor Adams directly for the rising crime rates, according to the poll.

As a way to combat increased crime, 85% of New Yorkers support having more cops in the subways and 63% were in favor of installing metal detectors. New Yorkers are also in favor of tougher gun laws and getting illegal firearms off the streets.

As recently as Sunday afternoon, a woman was pushed onto the tracks in the Bronx by a stranger who then escaped before police could apprehend him. The shove occurred on the Jackson Avenue platform of the 2/5 train. The victim suffered minor cuts and bruises from falling on that track and was taken to Lincoln Hospital for care. She was saved by fellow straphangers who quickly assisted her from the tracks back onto the platform before a train could enter the station.

The MTA reports subway shoves or assaults accounted for 1.1 percent of reported “track intrusions” through the first four months of 2022.

While Eric Adams is tsking a lot of blame, there are deeper factors at play.

“Eight years of De Blasio and the rise of deranged, far left extremism may have damaged the city beyond repair. From the literal destruction of the mental health services to the infiltration of woke ideology into the government in every facet,  one man cannot fix the destruction caused by insane city council members who literally are against prisons and think we are living in the pre-civil rights era and nonwhites are still victimized by an allegedly racist system, you have a governor who thinks having a third gender on a driver’s license is more important than anything else and judges and DA’s who believe in restorative justice. In other words, far left ideology has slowly destroyed NYC and possibly the entire state”, a local Republican anonymously told TJV.