Posted on 08/15/2020 10:32:40 AM PDT by lowbridge
Winston Ortiz, an 18-year old Bronx resident, was lured Wednesday into a stairwell by someone he had a dispute with. He was stabbed, doused with gasoline and set on fire. Ortiz died in the hospital Wednesday. Just the latest depravity in an increasingly depraved city.
Each day brings reports of fresh horror. More than 1,000 people have been shot so far this year, which is shaping up to be twice as bloody as 2019. There have been four murders on the subway — usually there are one or two a year — and felony assaults underground are way up, even as ridership is way down.
Random barbarousness is our new normal.
The streets have become filthy, as growing numbers of vagrants inhabit empty doorways. Open-air drug sales and shooting galleries — the sort of thing Gotham hadn’t seen in decades — are common sights.
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But none of these crimes — zero — can be connected to inequality or the need for anything except maybe vengeance, prestige or the satisfaction of a psychotic itch. When a man punches someone eating dinner outside, without even a hint of incitement or the possibility of a misunderstood insult, what’s the societal root cause we can blame on “Reaganomics,” as de Blasio does reflexively?
Authority has clearly retreated. The streets belong to whoever feels empowered enough to assert himself as the strongman of the moment. This has been a long time coming and dates to the first month of de Blasio’s mayoralty, when he dropped the city’s appeal of Judge Shira Scheindlin’s flawed judgment against New York’s stop-question-frisk policy. Things didn’t come undone all at once; they never do. But the first dominoes in a chain of disaster were flicked over in January 2014.
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Again?
Again?
Barbarousness is our new normal.
There's a process for that. Let me see, what's it called, oh, yeah: an election.
I have never seen such an obsession with a city anywhere ever in my life by people who didn’t live there. It’s almost like a cult. I live in New York City and there is virtually no crime in my area. Yes it is Staten island but it is still New York City. Look it up.
oh and I have been to parks in the projects as recently as last month. It was me and maybe 200 black people and the Spanish girl I was with and I am still able to send this message.
That was Brooklyn. Crown heights. Not the best neighborhood but nothing happened
Sorry to disappoint
Was it a botched necklacing? Saint Mandela was known for that...
If i recall, Staten island has always usually been an island of serenity no matter how bad it got in the other boroughs. I imagine it will remain the same as it gets worse elsewhere.
By the way, I was born and raised in brooklyn. Moved to the long island suburbs in my mid 20s.
As is true of any city, New York has its nice areas and its bad neighborhoods.
I’m sure your Staten Island neighborhood is nice. The area of Forest Hills Gardens my relatives live in is very nice.
But these places aren’t the South Bronx or Bedford-Stuyvesant.
I think New York gets a lot of attention on this site, because of so much bad news coming out of New York recently.
There is NOTHING about any current social issues to “blame” for the insanity of stabbing and setting on fire another person.
The increase in such attacks is, like Chicago, due in some part, more than any “social conditions”, to the increased public feeling that (a) arrests are not being made, and (b) if arrested an assailant or robber will be out in 48 hours without bail. Criminals due pay attention to such things.
But on the first part, to me the perp is criminally insane.
And it used to be such persons after conviction were locked up in special facilities for the criminally insane, and seldom qualified to be let out.
I wonder now though, since psychology & psychiatry have been so Left-politicized, if such facilities would work as well as they used to - keeping criminally insane locked up, no matter the crime-sentence, due to lack of confidence they can ever be trusted to not repeat their insane acts.
Time to summon the Caped Crusader with the Bat-Signal
Being There.. The good old days!
Except Staten Island is the City’s political step child. Bet you miss Sen. John Marchi
Thus the difference between maps, legal documents and reality. Staten Island doesn't have:
-A majority Democrat voting base
-A large criminal underclass
-A subway system or other transit systems for predators to roam
-Tourists to be targeted
-Miles and miles of blocks without a single family home
-An inordinate percentage of the population of renters and with rent control
-An inordinate percentage of the population who don't own an automobile, much less even have a driver's license
Staten Island, even though it's a borough of New York City, is more like New Jersey than they like to admit.
Just another deBlasiobscenity.
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