返回到现实中,去年震惊全美,激化警民矛盾的Eric Garner无辜被NYPD暴力拘捕致死的事件就发生在Staten Island——一个街市萧条破败、公交系统极度落后、毒品和暴力犯罪猖獗(A Crisis Behind Closed Doors: Understanding Staten Island's Heroin Problem, Murders more than doubled in 2014 on Staten Island, though other major crimes decreased)的区,也是纽约。