I know people who talk like this about a "city" (tiny town, really) of about 3,000 people.

cite whatever statistics you choose, they simply do not jibe with the image of times square in 1979 that i have in my head. gangs roving a crumbling dystopia and the gangs got themes. some are dressed like baseball players. some are mimes. some are girls. were just trying to get back to coney island

i mean, it is. but it's a very different kind of crime than whatever they're on about.

Once again: stop turning all the thinking over to machines.