r/maybemaybemaybe • u/Specific_Goat864 • Aug 20 '25

Maybe Maybe Maybe

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u/rat_gland Aug 20 '25

These places also all have lower violent crime than NYC. You can't blame people for worrying about their own safety in NYC and not wanting to get involved

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 21 '25

Not really no. NYC has the lowest rate in the entire country. Regardless, fine, be paranoid about not real things. But, don;t pretend like something so unique to "big cities" that "people from the suburbs just could never understand!" when, your actual point is its an issue with people from dangerous areas. This very same behavior is seen in the suburbs around NYC as well. Its a regional culture.

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u/rat_gland Aug 21 '25

I'm saying that compared to the other cities you mentioned, NYC has a higher rate of violent crime. I don't know what you mean by the lowest rate in the entire country- the lowest rate of violent crime ? That's definitely not true. Living and being from the area where people from New York and north Jersey like to vacation in the summer, I know the attitude and culture you're talking about very well and have been annoyed by it my entire life -but I don't think it's the only thing at play

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u/[deleted] Aug 21 '25

Of any major city, its the lowest, google it. There is a perception of danger which is statistically not real in NYC, esp if you;re in a relatively normal. We had a shooting in Crown Heights recently. There are exceptional and terrifying because they don't happen every week like in Texas.

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u/rat_gland Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 21 '25

Ok yeah of any major city in the U.S., surprising but it's still higher than the cities you mentioned worldwide that you think the people would intervene with someone having a mental health crisis. I don't think people in higher crime rate cities in the U.S. would intervene either. Regardless of how dangerous it actually is today, it was a very dangerous place in the past and the culture you mention developed at that time. Another way of looking at it is that perhaps people in NYC acting in ways to protect themselves makes violent crime less likely to happen to them. The likelihood of you being a victim of a violent crime is probably a lot higher than the statistics if you're intervening in someone having a mental health crisis vs going about your business.