Posted on 06/30/2004 5:42:56 AM PDT by mrustow
Here in El Paso they boast of practically no crime ---- yet even in the upscale neighborhoods, people have iron bars on every window and door, high fences, security system, car alarms plus anti-theft bars over steering wheels --- sure a lot of money being thrown away in crime protection devices if crime rate is really low. Property crime is very very high but the figures are twisted.
As you suggested, somehow the rules are different for law-abiding citizens. In NYC, gun-grabbing Mayor Bloomberg, who is surrounded at all times by heavily-armed, taxpayer-funded, NYPD bodyguards, has instituted "gun courts" for the vigorous prosecution of citizens caught with unlicensed firearms (as opposed to those who use guns to commit crimes). Bloomy thinks it's crazy for anyone to be carrying a gun. Whereas in the past, most illegal possession busts resulted in probation, now most men (not ladies) caught with illegal weapons who did not commit a crime with them, are going to prison for an average of one year. And in NYC, it's almost impossible for anyone who isn't a multi-millionaire, a celebrity, or an ex-cop to get a pistol permit.
My pleasure.
Because I've been pinging you for years. Why did you suddenly ask that question now? And why would I ping you for years, and then exclude you from a chance to see one of the most important articles I've ever posted?
Does more than one person use your handle? Did you inherit the username?
I didn't know that. Because I saw no direct connection between me and the topic. I don't know. No. No.
That should answer all your questions, in order.
Almost.
Keep that in mind next time you hear somebody suggest the mandatory sentencing laws should be "relaxed".
Will do. Which state are you in? (Do mandatory sentencing laws obtain in all of the states?)
What town was that?
Sure thing!
Bump for later read.....
Bumpbackatcha!
Not to shock any of my fellow New Yorkers but John Vliet Lindsay once did something good. He saw that Precinct Commanders were underreporting (downgrading) crimes, because the were graded on the amount of crime in their precincts, so he changed the grading standards to end that practice. Crime then took an apparent jump upwards in New York. Go figure.
Sounds like they slid back into bogus reporting.
Sounds like they slid back into bogus reporting.
(Muttering in his beer) "Rrrrrrr. Everyone knows ^&*@+=# Lindsay never did anything right."
Having taken my heart medicine and replaced the keyboard I ripped out and threw through the window, I would now like to know your sources for Lindsay's alleged non-mistake. Note that I said "sources"; anything positive about Lindsay requires multiple sourcing.
Well, if it can snow in April...
Having taken my heart medicine and replaced the keyboard I ripped out and threw through the window, I would now like to know your sources for Lindsay's alleged non-mistake. Note that I said "sources"; anything positive about Lindsay requires multiple sourcing.
What is this Wagnerian drama? What is that Beame in your eye?
Sorry, but I'm working from memory. Now let me tell you you about Jimmy Walker...
ROTFLMAO
I'm no fan of Wagner's Term Cycle, especially The Third Term: The DeSapio Sacrifice. And the Beame had been in my eye for so long, I'd forgotten it was there!
If drugs were legalized, their price would collapse. Do you think that marijuana or cocaine plants are fragile or difficult to cultivate? Without governmental restrictions, cocaine would cost approximately the same to manufacture and import as other tropical organic products such as sugar. Hence my price of $3.69/lb. for Colombian cocaine. Hopeless addicts could overdose to death, but they could do it on a McDonald's wage.
And if it is homosexual, then "it's not a crime, it's only their nature."
Had the same experience, thieves broke a screw driver off in the ignition. Unable to get the car, they took everything in the car. The police decided the only crime was the theft of the micro cassette recorder and the organizer I had foolishly left on the seat.
Ossifer Friendly decided I left the car unlocked. Aside from the insult to my honesty and intelligence the worst thing was losing 20 years of addresses and personal info in the address book.
I'm in Ohio.
And if it is homosexual, then "it's not a crime, it's only their nature."
Things have been so bad for so long in that regard, that even in Milwaukee ten or more years ago, when one of Jeffrey Dahmer's victims, a naked, little, underaged Vietnamese boy (13 or 14 y.o., I believe) escaped from Dahmer, and ran to police, instead of rescuing him, they handed him back to Dahmer, who proceeded to murder and cannibalize him. Dahmer told them it was just a "lover's spat," and so, rather than do their job, the cops handcuffed themselves, because it was "a gay thing," and they were afraid of the gay lobby.
Thanks.
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