I'M WALKIN' HERE!!!! (actually I'm thinking we're making a movie here and you just ruined the shot but we're keeping it in the movie now anyway)
Posted on 01/21/2016 6:15:32 AM PST by C19fan
New York City is poised to reshape how it treats many so-called quality-of-life offenses, softening its stance toward low-level infractions like public urination and drinking alcohol in public by steering those cases away from the criminal court system.
A package of eight bills to be introduced in the City Council on Monday would reduce the impact of the style of policing known as broken windows that has for two decades guided the Police Department to see minor disorder as a precursor to major crime, often alienating residents in the process.
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For those who were disappointed that the hookers and drug dealers were chased out of Times Square in the late 1990s by Giuliani’s zero tolerance policy for crimes like this, they should be back very soon.
Didn’t Rudy prove that enforcing the minor crimes reduced the overall crime rate?
But cigarette smoking, selling loosies, and drinking a Big Gulp must still be prevented at any and all costs!
Schmucks.
CC
I lived in downtown Manhattan in the 1990s. I lived there before Giuliani was elected and then during after his zero tolerance policing policies took effect. I cannot overstate how beneficial they were to city residents. They took areas that were riddled with drugs, prostitution, aggressive panhandling and other crime and turned them into decent places where you could walk around without worrying about being mugged, offered drugs, solicited by a prostitute or having some aggressive bum in your face asking for money. New York City became a decent place to live. Now the city council is going to throw it all away.
No one missed the homeless or the Ratso Rizzo types in Times Square. What we hate is the Disneyfication of that area with bad chain restaurants and awful touristy stores selling Disneyware and overpriced candy. And turning Broadway into a pedestrian mall. Cabs can’t get through, increasing traffic, and people who live in the city can barely walk through the crowds of midwesterners who seem to think that’s the only place to hang out.
I lived in Manhattan, too, 1989-2011. Totally agree with you. Rudy was the best leader this country had seen in decades.
New York Values at work now, unfortunately.
Back to John Lindsay’s NY.
F New York City. F Philadelphia. F Detroit. F Chicago.
Totally OWNED by leftist Democrats now. They deserve whatever they get.
There are two aspects to this. First it empowers the petty criminals to commit crimes.
Second it demoralizes the cops, who are prevented from using techniques they know will work. So they back off from policing further than intended or desired.
What those create is something called a self-reinforcing feedback loop. Or, if you prefer, a death spiral.
And that no ID will be required when issuing summonses. It is said that criminal court is clogged with these "low level" misdemeanors and that no shows get warrants that just increase the clog.
My question is why do they think this change will increase compliance for showing up if they simply change it to a different court.
New York Values
So the formula for success used by Guillani is no good now? NYC goes right back into the gutter from whence it came. Liberalism and common sense are never compatible.
I'M WALKIN' HERE!!!! (actually I'm thinking we're making a movie here and you just ruined the shot but we're keeping it in the movie now anyway)
Is that true? What a good movie! I call it a nostalgia flick.
Isn’t liberal logic the most wonderful thing, it feels so good to be kind and considerate to criminals because like every other citizen they are just trying to do the best they can.
Here is where I got the info
More like alienating the scumbags doing the crime.
I will NEVER set foot in NYC again, regardless of who runs it or how but everyone knows exactly what this policy is going to bring - Dinkins Town.
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