Posted on 11/22/2013 12:44:31 PM PST by DogByte6RER
De Blasio gets policing advice — from ex-cons
Forget Ray Kelly, Bill de Blasio is getting his policing advice from the real experts — hardened criminals.
A group of 50 ex-cons, junkies and chronic vagrants gathered at a Manhattan “Think Tank” Thursday to describe what they thought the NYPD should be doing to make their lives easier.
The felonious forum outlined a clear “get-soft-on-crime” vision.
“I like the idea of ending stop and frisk. That was the first thing that was totally there for me,” opined Mikell Green-Grand, a 49-year-old former jailbird who has convictions for grand larceny and identity theft.
Arthur Castillo, 38 — who has been convicted for possessing stolen property and assault — said he would be much obliged if the cops just left him alone to do his thing.
“Cops won’t leave us alone!” he said. “Newly released prisoners are watched by the police and a lot of us don’t feel we have an opportunity to readapt to normal life because we are treated as criminals even though we are free.”
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Expect a big growth in this kind of "street art" in NYC ...
Let the knockout games begin!
The New Yorkers deserve what they voted for.
It’s nice that he is listening to the experts. I imagine the results will be as expected.
This creep will make Dinkins seem like a genius.
Which Batman villain in the old series became Mayor and ran Gotham City this way?
Penguin.
He’s a filthy communist who thinks that the underclass is justified in rising up against the ‘oppressors.’
In other words, he’s soft on crime.
Yup. Anyone with half a brain knows how this is going to end.
This is THE green light for those halcyon days of 25 years ago in New York, soon to be known as `Squeegee Dinkinsville’.
Upper East Side liberals must be breaking out the reefers even as we speak.
New York City had become one of the safest big cities in the entire world. Democrats want to change that. It’ll be a return to the David Dinkins days.
hey,
good luck with that
guess my tourista dollars are going to a safer climate like Mexico
Good bye New York. You were a great place to live and work. Now you will be a crimin minefield
I’m looking forward to a revival of Hill Street Blues as New York deetrotizes. By 2017, they will be completely broke
Thanks DogByte6RER.
I can only hope New Yorkers have the sense to jettison this icehole in 4 years after he destroys their city.
Draft Rudy.
Yes.
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