New York City’s Stop, Question and Frisk operations under Mayor Bloomberg: As mayor, Bloomberg, the “data guy”, ignored the failure rates thrown up in the stop-and-frisk data. The NYPD found contraband or weapons on...
Read MoreNew York City’s Stop, Question and Frisk operations under Mayor Bloomberg: The media made and still makes much of the “data guy” and how he made billions selling data, information, and news. As mayor, though,...
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To be easy and comfortable appears to be the aim of all man: even at the expense of the other...
Read MoreDomestic Violence in NYC, 2017 December 10, 2018 The Mayor’s Office to Combat Domestic Violence (OCDV) released summary data pertaining to domestic violence incidents in the five boroughs occuring in 2017. The data consists of...
Read MoreNumber of service requests to NYC’s 311 from 2004 to 2016: 24.54 million A curious thing popped up on the way to the ice-cream truck. I was looking at all the notations NYPD makes while closing out a 311 ticket. There are...
Read MoreNumber of service requests to NYC’s 311 from 2004 to 2016: 24.54 million In one of my earlier posts, I wrote that I was trying to explain correlation vs. causation to a friend. At the same time, and ongoing, there is an...
Read MoreNumber of service requests to NYC’s 311 from 2004 to 2016: 24,537,397 Top 10 agencies (of 65) with the most requests: HPD 8110359 NYPD 4017361 DOT 3676805 DEP 2435830 DSNY 1771932 DOB 1362758 DPR 931293 DOHMH 629524...
Read MoreRanked by borough and Community Boards The borough from which most people called from in 2014 for NYPD assistance: Brooklyn. Borough Number of calls BROOKLYN 89535 QUEENS 76366 MANHATTAN 58857 BRONX 35977 STATEN ISLAND 11889...
Read MoreBlocked driveways. Yep, blocked driveways and illegal parking. Another reason to use public transport. And apparently two people called about a squeegee. Doesn’t say if there was a man attached to it, but I sure hope so. I...
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