New York incarceration, prisoners:
Posted on 01/06/2008 12:21:32 PM PST by knighthawk
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And gun control had nothing to do with it.
Now, repeal the Sullivan Acts, and watch the crime rate fall further.
Will “Law and Order” move to another city?
Just think how much more the murder rate would have gone down if citizens had the right to carry.
Great minds.
Stop and frisk sounds like an illegal search. But hey I guess if it gets those evil guns off the street. NYC is now a police state and crowing about it.
Outside of New York City, the practices for the issuance of concealed carry licenses vary from county to county within New York State. In New York City, the licensing authority is the police department, which rarely issues carry licenses to anyone except retired police officers. In addition, New Yorkers who have political influence, wealth, or celebrity appear to be issued licenses more liberally. [1] The New York Post, the New York Sun, and other newspapers have obtained the list of licensees through Freedom of Information Law requests and have published several articles showing that the wealthy, famous, and politically connected have been issued carry licenses by the city police department.
Current and past New York City (pistol)license holders include:
* Senator Charles Schumer
* Don Imus
* Harvey Keitel
* Joseph Bruno
* Ronald Lauder
* Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
* Howard Stern
* Donald Trump
* William F. Buckley Jr.
* Joan Rivers
* Arthur Hays Sulzberger
* Robert DeNiro
—having seen on the internet within the last year or so that any type controlled substance is available at any time in NYC by merely making a cell phone call to numbers easily available to practically anyone, I am of the firm belief that the drug trade is in a near monopoly situation, so that there is no need for disputes over distribution-—contributing mightily to the low murder rate—
New York incarceration, prisoners:
but but but, I thought it was Rudy that was causing crime to decrease in NYC... He’s not mayor anymore, this must all be lies!
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The cops do this to turnstile-jumpers, weed smokers, and other low-level crime perps as a matter of course. They turn up lots of folks who've jumped bail, broken parole, etc., and put them behind bars.
The greatest beneficiaries of this policy are folks of color, who suffered the highest murder rates under the Dinkins/Democrat regimes.
High rates of AIDS among needle-using drug addicts and among inmates in prisons and jails has also removed a large number of criminals from the active criminal population.
After the toll and subway fare increases this week, I expect even more murderers to be priced out of the 5 boroughs.
1. Cop needs "reasonable suspicion" -- not full "probable casue" but not just at random -- say, people loitering around a liquor store without going in.
2. can only search to the extent of self-protection -- "frisk" for weapons, not "search" for drugs, stolen cash, etc.
Yes, I would credit Giuliani for the good police work. It was set up under his watch. Thankfully Bloomberg hasn’t reversed course, as I would have expected, but allows the police to continue with their earlier policies.
Bratten gets credit, too. But he’s now in L.A., and the policing is lousy, because a good police chief can’t do anything under a lousy mayor.
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