more crime in lib cities

Portland OR

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I am very grateful I moved from a lib city when I did......Yesterday it was Philadelphia most murders in history. today it is mayhen in the streets in New York...welcome the defund police movement people...idiots.. tomorrow will be portland, then we will start over with seattle and same ol same ol. Marko Majic, head of business development for City Jeans on East Fordham Road, told the New York Post: "It looks like a bazaar in Istanbul. The only difference is in Istanbul it’s legal and organized and here it is illegal and unorganized." The Post reports there are now 242 sidewalk vendors, more than the 230 storefronts in the same area. “They sell water, jewelry, masks, toys, counterfeit goods, anything you can imagine,” said Wilma Alonso, director of the Fordham Road Business Improvement District. She said they even play three card monte and called the situation a "public safety crisis". On June 5, there was an incident near the area with a vendor which resulted in a second vendor getting shot in the arm by a stray bullet. Since January, there have been 311 complaints about illegal vending across the city, up 14% from the same period in 2019. The city appears to be doing very little about it. “We were stunned to learn on a day when there were hundreds of unauthorized vendors, only [a few] summonses were issued,” Alonso said.