Posted on 11/30/2013 10:59:13 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The Perfect Storm
We can clearly discenr sevaral trends coming together. New York City has experienced over twenty years of decreasing crime rates. But aggressive policing tactics such as Stop and Frisk and targeting open-air narcotics sellers, coupled with the get-tough approach on quality-of-life crimes, is now being scrutinized. We have widespread unemployment and a faltering economy, and a progressive mayor, Bill DiBlasio, who has indicated that he is against Stop and Frisk. There are signals that crime is slowly on the uptick. The recent wanton assaults of the "Knockout Game" come to mind.
In any dynamic, there is an internal and external environment. The New York City street cop knows this dynamic intimately. Police officers want to know that from the mayor downward, someone has their backs. Mayor Rudy Giuliani set the tone: aggressive policing would be rewarded, active cops would go to elite crime-fighting units like Street Crime and Narcotics and get plenty of overtime for arrests. They would pad their pensions with overtime. Civilian Complaints had become a slap on the wrist.
Today we have a progressive mayor, liberal/left ideology, a re-energized Civilian Complaint Review Board with talk of civilian oversight of the police department, and a recent court decision, Floyd et al v. the City of New York, which effectively dismantled the NYPD's Stop and Frisk policy. Judge Shira A Scheindler did not find that stop-and-frisk itself was unconstitutional, only that it was unconstitutionally applied. She determined that many stops lacked reasonable suspicion and police were racially profiling.
This ruling has been overturned. These are all external dynamics.
Internally, police officers are tired of years of escalating ticket, arrest, and Stop and Frisk quotas. They know their overtime is drying up. They see taxes going up and city services being cut.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Sayyyyyyyyyy, didn’t they just elect a “Progressive” mayor???
The result was 450 no-knock raids per month with 10% being at the wrong address.
“...with 10% being at the wrong address.”
Yeah, but that was only a SMALL percentage...
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“We can clearly discenr sevaral....”
Sounds sirius....
read this post then your post just before this one -— interesting, I think...
Couldn’t happen to a better place or a nicer people.
I strongly suspect that policing was NOT the reason for the crime rate drop in NYC over the last fifteen or so years.
I do believe that the crime rate dropped because of gentrification: property values went sky-high over the last fifteen years, such that the criminal element had to move out of the city and took crime with them.
It’s going to be like Gotham City before Batman.
Bump
——coming to ans end——
The tense is incorrect
The correct tense “have come to an end.” The status quo ended with the election. In NYC it’s Hill Street Blues all over again
and then of course there were a prime movers ..... Rudy and Ray
Lots of writing nowadays could use a good editor. But that mangling would have been pointed out by a low level spell checker. Gee!
“The violent crime rate went up 15 percent last year, and the property crime rate rose 12 percent, the government said Thursday, signs that the nation may be seeing the last of the substantial declines in crime of the past two decades. Last year marked the second year in a row for increases in the crime victimization survey...”
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/US-Crime-Rates/2013/10/24/id/532906
Yeah but, 90% weren’t .... for the most part... /S
God help New York. If you thought the 70’s and 80’s were bad...
Lots of writing nowadays could use a good editor. But that mangling would have been pointed out by a low level spell checker. Gee!
rein / reign
(see that a lot lately)
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