Posted on 06/29/2008 5:48:16 PM PDT by neverdem
(FIXING THE LITTLE THINGS MADE NEW YORK CITY SAFE. THEY'RE STARTING TO BREAK AGAIN.)
Does it feel some days as if New York-- wealthy, successful, seemingly at the top of the world -- is slipping back into the bad old days of crime, noise, dirt, rudeness? Like pentimento rising from an old canvas, the traces of New York's previous misery are appearing on the streets and in the subways -- graffiti, aggressive panhandling, open drug dealing, filthy public areas, ear--splitting noise, screeching sirens, a sense of disorder we thought was gone. It's not "Soylent Green" again, but the old Hollywood sense of lawless New York is rearing its ugly head.
Worse, something menacing seems to be happening with violent crime. The newspapers have been filled recently with stories about horribly vicious cases -- the trial, for example, that ended last week in a 44--count guilty verdict against the man accused of the brutal rape and torture of a Columbia University student living in Hamilton Heights, a seemingly safe neighborhood.
Then there was the bicyclist, said to live in a flophouse in Greenpoint, who plunged a knife into a woman in Long Island City for no apparent reason. The assailant had served nine years in prison for random stabbings in 1994. That date should bring New Yorkers up short, since things were already starting to turn around for us then. Psychotic attackers are back in our lives -- and also, apparently, living at public expense in shelters.
Is this current violence an aberration? Or is it something that will prove to be more routine and serious? Is this an example of what Jeremy Travis, the president of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, calls the problem of prison re--entry: They all come back?
Could it all come back?
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The NYPD's...
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Who is to blame? Bloomy or the Supreme Court?
Time to bring back Paul Kersey.
Just shows what liberals plan to do to America should they get the opportunity.
Obama the most dangerous man in America.
Fifty years ago the 101 Precinct usually had no murders and that was with fewer police and before civilians took over many of the jobs formerly performed by police.
Man, I hope it isn’t true. I grew up in New York during the darkest days of the Dinkins administration when the lowlifes and criminals had reign of the city. It would be a tragedy if the city was allowed to lapse back to that state again.
That's going to send me to the old Merrriam-Websters....
A pentimento (plural pentimenti) is an alteration in a painting, evidenced by traces of previous work, showing that the artist has changed his mind as to the composition during the process of painting. The word derives from the Italian pentirsi, meaning to repent.
“Rudy Giuliani. Please pick up the White Courtesy Phone in the Lobby. New York Needs You!” ;)
(Note: The REST of American does not, but I think you already understand that.)
I see ALOT more homeless people, especially along 6th and 7th Avenues.
You mean to tell me Bloomberg ain’t Rudy? Say it ain’t so.
Dinkins time in NYC again.
But but but, the police have been able to root out any stray ashtrays and any stray saturated fats on the menu of the city’s restaurants.
‘Waterfalls’ Opens in New York
In New York, Waterfalls Are Nothing New
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Thanks!
Ac tually, bring back Rudy and tell Bloomie to just change parties and shut up! With the Appeal’s Courts like the 9th Circuit protecting the perp instead of the victim, can you imagine what it will be like when The Messiah wins and appoints hundred of jurists to those lower courts???
After years of liberal democrats ruining NY City, they claimed the city was ungovernable - that was before Rudy turned that city around.
If the mayor had spend his time cracking down on criminals rather than suing gun stores and grandstanding, there probably would not have been a crime wave.
I expected this to happen when Bloomberg was first elected. It has just taken longer than I expected for things to deteriorate and revert.
(Note: The REST of American does not, but I think you already understand that.)
I would've voted for him! And I'm not ashamed to admit it - even here at WeHateRudy.com. He showed with his actions (both as mayor and, prior to that, as prosecutor) what kind of leader he was.
Anyone can say what they're "going to" do. Me, I look at what a man has done. That is why I always have been and will continue to be registered as an Independent. People need to actually earn my vote. As a former New Yorker, I got to see first hand the wonderful, transformative things Rudy had done for that city and lead, inspire, and allow her people to do for themselves. That is also why I am saddened every time I have opportunity to visit there now.
Having said all that, Rudy was simply my #2 choice from among all early candidates from either party. Duncan Hunter earned my #1 spot when during the early debates, he showed himself to be the only candidate on the dais who was self-assured enough to consistently answer the question asked of him. Not the question he wished to be asked or give some vague general platitude but actual answers to real questions.
Perhaps we will get another chance to have a real leader in 2012 and will learn enough from whichever disaster is elected this go round to grab at that chance. We do need more men of character and I thank God I had the opportunity to vote for at least one here in Oklahoma a couple of years ago.
What?
Something such as 10PM?
Why thank you, I hear the word tossed around by the sophistos. Never took the time to look it up.
Thinking back on it. More advanced X-ray technology has, over the years, revealed some fascinating evidence of how certain artists rethought, went back, tweaked things, changed backgrounds, shadows, or simply started all over.
Or how the wealthy client later had a different artist come in and make changes.
Thanks for the ping!
I like Julie Annie. He was overreaching to think he could translate to a national Presidential candidate in the Republican Party. But NYC and the country would be better off if he were in charge once again of NYC.
Actually heard Bloomers on the radio one morning insisting that it was bad to arrest turnstyle jumpers in the subways because they were just poor people who couldn’t afford the fare.
We see what that mentality has brought to Rudy’s city.
Excuses instead of enforcement.
Nor am I. Rudy was a person who had real leadership skills and real positive results as mayor of NYC.
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