Crime in Kings County, NY
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1/31/2009
Kings County, NY is Brooklyn, NY, one of the five boroughs of New York City. The crime statistics for the county do not reflect actual conditions in the entire county. Rather, certain neighborhoods in Brooklyn have much higher crime rates - murder, rape, robbery, weapons charges, theft - than most other areas of the county. Generally, those higher-crime areas are lower-income or have higher gang activity. Those neighborhoods include Bedford-Stuyvesant, Flatbush, East New York, and to a lesser extent, Canarsie. Other areas have very LOW crime rates - Brooklyn Heights, Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, for example. The high crime rates of the few areas skew the average crime statistics for the county/borough way out of proportion. I have lived in Bay Ridge and Bensonhurst for the past 12 yrs and have always felt safe, never been robbed or otherwise assaulted, never heard a gunshot. You just have to be aware of your surroundings, as in any large city.
Nancy | New York, NY