This park appears to be as bad as San Francisco. "
A lawless, drug-infested Washington Square Park is horrifying even famously free-spirited Greenwich Village residents.
“We may be liberal but this has gone too far, ..
NYPD data shows robbery is up 73 percent this year in the 6th Precinct, which covers the park. Sex crimes have surged 36 percent. There have been two shootings –up from none last year. There have three cases of grand larceny and four felony assaults reported inside the park alone in the first quarter of 2021, before the current surge in warm-weather activity. ....
“We are fed up,” the letter says repeatedly, listing an array of quality-of-life problems, including “the lack of enforcement of basic long-standing laws and illegal activity;” the “urination, defecation, spitting, discarded drug paraphernalia, alcohol bottles and cans and general filth in those areas of the park;” and “junkies sleeping, having sex, generating trash and intimidating patrons of the park.”
Here is the city's pathetic response to the problems: "That effort includes a new afternoon arts & crafts program for children at the tables in the park’s northwest corner that started on Wednesday, hours after the “drug den” was closed off, in partnership with the Washington Square Park Conservancy."
Total joke and disgrace going in NYC which elected Di Blasio. Problems would be solvable with more police presence, but lunatic Lefties like Di Blasio live in a dream world where they are divorced from reality and let their city degenerate into a sh*thole. https://nypost.com/2021/05/29/washington-square-park-drug-den-horrifies-greenwich-village/ What Biden and friends will bring to the rest of US if given their own way.
A lawless, drug-infested Washington Square Park is horrifying even famously free-spirited Greenwich Village residents.
“We may be liberal but this has gone too far, ..
NYPD data shows robbery is up 73 percent this year in the 6th Precinct, which covers the park. Sex crimes have surged 36 percent. There have been two shootings –up from none last year. There have three cases of grand larceny and four felony assaults reported inside the park alone in the first quarter of 2021, before the current surge in warm-weather activity. ....
“We are fed up,” the letter says repeatedly, listing an array of quality-of-life problems, including “the lack of enforcement of basic long-standing laws and illegal activity;” the “urination, defecation, spitting, discarded drug paraphernalia, alcohol bottles and cans and general filth in those areas of the park;” and “junkies sleeping, having sex, generating trash and intimidating patrons of the park.”
Here is the city's pathetic response to the problems: "That effort includes a new afternoon arts & crafts program for children at the tables in the park’s northwest corner that started on Wednesday, hours after the “drug den” was closed off, in partnership with the Washington Square Park Conservancy."
Total joke and disgrace going in NYC which elected Di Blasio. Problems would be solvable with more police presence, but lunatic Lefties like Di Blasio live in a dream world where they are divorced from reality and let their city degenerate into a sh*thole. https://nypost.com/2021/05/29/washington-square-park-drug-den-horrifies-greenwich-village/ What Biden and friends will bring to the rest of US if given their own way.
