Crime and Violence in Greater New York
In Greater New York, during the first nine months of the year, 9,364 years imprisonment in the aggregate were imposed upon criminals. Fines were inflicted to the amount of more than $212,000, and property recovered to the amount of $421,000. One of the serious things, however, connected with the city crime is the many murders. A writer in Harper’s Weekly says the city is “surfeited with murder. It is a commonplace of the day’s news; it has ceased to attract attention. Men are stabbed or shot down or blackjacked, not secretly, but in the open, crowded streets at midday, for little or no cause. Life has become cheaper in New York than in the wildest of Western mining-camps. Gangs hold undisputed sway in their separate territories, outraging, blackmailing, murdering peaceable citizens, when they are not engaged in fighting each other.” It seems to us that such conditions as these ought to help us to see the fulfilment of prophecy and to lead thousands of people to flee to the great, open, inviting country which awaits them in the far West and Canada.