Whose Streets? – NYPD Credits Occupy With Drop in Crime

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As reported in the New York Post, the NYPD has found that in the areas where Occupy Sandy (and other neighborhood non-profits) have been most active there has been less crime.

Occupy Sandy Relief Center

Residents of areas like Brooklyn’s Red Hook, where Occupy Sandy has a strong presence, say they feel safer and have been spared the looting and other crime that exist in neighborhoods where activists are not so plentiful.

Officers of the NYPD are similarly pleased, noting, “We had all these potential people who could call 911, in a heartbeat. All the volunteers were potential witnesses.”

And Occupy activists find themselves in the new circumstance of working side-by-side with uniformed authorities.

(More at the link. Please note that Oakland California "authorities" learned that crime had dropped 19% during Occupy Oakland, but even knowing this, still continued to attack them.)