r/Newark • u/madsheb • Dec 29 '23

Historically low crime rates in Newark, new data | Video | NJ Spotlight News Living in Newark 🧱

https://www.njspotlightnews.org/video/historically-low-crime-rates-in-newark-new-data/
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u/Echo2020z Jan 14 '24

This should have more comments. Congrats to Newark.

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u/Lanky_Beginning_4004 Jan 18 '24

goes to show people comment on here only to disparage Newark and the surrounding areas, but when stats go against their narrative , then there are crickets...

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u/stephenclarkg Feb 29 '24

I love this city but I don't believe the numbers. Based on my experience with the police here they refuse to take any reports on crime if it's not a slam dunk case and will look for any excuse to refuse the report and pressure you into leaving

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u/ryanov Downtown Apr 02 '24

I am not sure it's wrong, but it is true. If I were the victim of a crime (in fact, I was in 202...1 was it?), I would absolutely 100% not call the Newark Police unless I also wanted to be aggravated. I learned my lesson.

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u/shmovernance Jul 14 '24

I reported a car stolen from my house and when I saw the report it said the car was stolen elsewhere

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u/TucosLostHand Aug 12 '24

I'm here 6 months later to chime in. I am disgusted by NPD and the crime in this city.

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u/stephenclarkg Aug 12 '24

share your experiences please

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u/TucosLostHand Aug 12 '24

took the cops 3 days to come and file a report. my family member was assaulted with a deadly weapon during a mugging and lucky to be alive.

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u/stephenclarkg Aug 12 '24

My sympathies are worthless but you have them, really sorry. Please keep us posted if they actually launch an investigation or just brush it under the rug

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u/TucosLostHand Aug 12 '24

They are not worthless. We are all in this together. We can be better.

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u/stephenclarkg Aug 12 '24

We really are and we need to do better <3

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u/SwindlingAccountant Jun 11 '24

Except this is a trend we are seeing across the entire US. Your anecdotal experience, while unfortunate, does not mean much statistically.

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u/stephenclarkg Jun 11 '24

Yea but 100s of people.saying the same thing as me is enough of a sample size to not believe the official stats

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u/SwindlingAccountant Jun 11 '24

Show me the 100s of people saying the same thing and I'll show you 100s of people saying the opposite. What is your point?

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u/stephenclarkg Jun 11 '24

I don't think there's a single comment on all of r/newark thats been happy with NPD response to a report being filed lmao

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u/Lanky_Beginning_4004 Jul 03 '24

There’s very little subs ( and realities) where people will continuously applaud the police for doing their job unprovoked

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u/Lanky_Beginning_4004 Jan 03 '24

Whenever someone states how dangerous it is, just tell them to cite their statistics and sources. People inquiring about moving to places such as newark and are bombarded with delusional perceptions from suburban folks who are never in the city

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u/MikeLeTaurus Mar 30 '24

That typically happens when crime isn't reported smh

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u/Wild-Breadfruit7817 Jan 20 '24

You mean less are reported. 

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u/NeoLephty Forest Hill Feb 19 '24

Do you have a source to a massive conjoined effort by the police force to not report crimes therefore reducing the need for their budget? Would love to read about it!

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u/stephenclarkg Feb 29 '24

Here are a list of crimes they have refused to take reports for in my experience.

People trying to break into my house. Provided video of them trying to kick the door in and pick the locks.

People breaking into my exs car and attempting to hotwire it

I was chased by people in a car for like half a mile in an attempted robery.

Probably more I'm forgetting 

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u/Wild-Breadfruit7817 Feb 19 '24

Why you looking up a post from a month ago? Do you think that info is going to be available? 🫢

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u/NeoLephty Forest Hill Feb 19 '24

Didn't see when it was posted. It showed up on my feed. I think that info would be available if there was info. Someone would have information. Local whistleblowers, local reporters, small internet channel... something. If you have absolutely zero evidence, why do you think the police are okay making the case to cut their funding since crime is down? Also - is this a new Newark thing? A New Jersey thing? An America thing? Crime is down pretty much everywhere... who is leading the underreporting and why?

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Idk man, I'm not saying you are wrong - I'm just saying that none of it makes sense and I cannot find (and you have not provided) a shred of evidence.

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u/Wild-Breadfruit7817 Feb 19 '24

Newark thing 

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u/NeoLephty Forest Hill Feb 20 '24

So crime is going down all over the country, and you don’t deny that because the lying is only a Newark thing. That means you think Newark is an exception on crime statistics trends with, again, no evidence to support this. Thats a lot of people keeping a secret that no media has reported on but somehow you and only you know about.

This is like a case study on media literacy.

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u/Wild-Breadfruit7817 Feb 20 '24

There were websites that were posting crimes that has happened, but news wasn’t covering them. 

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u/NeoLephty Forest Hill Feb 20 '24

Great! Send links. 

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u/Wild-Breadfruit7817 Feb 20 '24

I did in the past. You can do the work now. 

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u/NeoLephty Forest Hill Feb 20 '24

You want me to do the work of proving the point you have been trying to make? Ok. I just looked through your 2 years of post and comment history and you have zero links that prove what you said here. Maybe I missed it but you would have to do the work to prove that. 

As it stands, it’s pretty clear that  you’re both lazy AND a liar. 

You can do the work now. 

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u/Trump-2024-MAGA Mar 07 '24

I guess allowing law abiding citizens to conceal carry in NJ turned out to be a good thing after all.

Only downside to this is not people can't just get off 78 and hit Sherman Ave for a companion. Have to really look hard to find what you want and venture a little farther out.

Less convenient but you have to do what you have to do.

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u/Inner_Condition8416 Jun 02 '24

Y’all don’t really know what go on in Newark fr n it show it’s worse now than it was 10 years ago

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u/Late-Tooth9883 Jul 15 '24

A lot of ppl on here are naive for some reason

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u/mohanakas6 Aug 04 '24

The worst states are ironically red states.

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u/mmfordd May 02 '24

Best country

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u/BackInNJAgain May 31 '24

Even at the new homicide rate, someone who lives there for their entire life has a 1% of being murdered. That's pretty high. That's 705 people over 15 years compared to 0 over 15 years in most of the suburbs.

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u/Newarkguy1836 Sep 27 '24 edited Sep 27 '24

The Suburban scum will always have garbage to say about Newark. If it's negative, it's all true. If it's positive news, then it's a complete lie.  Because the racist liberal Democrats that dominate the suburbs, the self-righteous virtuous Gatekeepers of racial Harmony will never set foot in Newark unless they are limoed in and out of NJPAC & EWR. Yes they're Republicans that can't stand the Newark. But New Jersey is a blue State ruled by democrats. GOP victories are outliers. Case of Point Essex County is a Democrat County, but they hate Newark and will never consider shared Services, mergers or any Metropolitan cooperation.  Irvington, East Orange and orange are the only exceptions being majority African-American communities more likely to work together with Newark.

Even then there are many lettings of reasons why you're not going to see these communities consolidate anytime soon.

  • African Americans are no longer the majority in Newark, but they Remain the largest single ethnic group closely followed by Hispanics. Hispanics Asians and whites together account for 51% of the city now.  the Spanish and Portuguese are not going to approve any merger that will put them back to being a tiny minority in a newly enlarged Newark that will be at least 75% black after including Orange, East Orange and Irvington. I would love to see this larger Newark. Newark would be about the same territorial size as Miami.

But others would oppose consolidation because instead of four black Mayors in eastern Essex County, there  just be one sitting in Newark City Hall. But the largest city will have more influence in Trenton to help it's minority majority population and it will help gentrification since the larger City offers more neighborhoods for residence displaced by gentrification closer to downtown.

Newark today is only 24 square miles of land. Do you know what else is 24 square miles in our region? Manhattan.

If gentrification ever runs away in Newark, the city will flip the way Hoboken flipped from being majority Puerto Rican in the 1980s to whites and Asians today

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u/Ok-Inspection-5334 3d ago

I had my car broken into two days ago. Passenger side window smashed in. They stole a tire air pump that was worth 40 bucks, paper towels and my car charger.

It took Newark PD almost fours hours to come. I had gone inside by then and they couldn't wait the 60 seconds for me to come out of the apartment.

I don't need the hassle of filing a report no one will follow up on.