(Ithaca) Mayor’s Plan to Abolish Police Department Will End in Disaster, City’s Ex-Chief Warns

© 2021 National Review ^ | 03/16/21 | By TOBIAS HOONHOUT

[Behind Liberal Lines]

A progressive mayor’s proposal to abolish the police department of a small city in upstate New York is sparking concerns among residents that the reform effort will exacerbate a recent spike in violent crime, the town’s former police chief told National Review.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Ithaca is the City of Evil.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

City of Evil bump:

[Regulator]

LET THEM DO IT

They deserve what happens next

[Da Coyote]

How about a deal?
It’s called “One for One”.
For each citizen killed by a criminal, one city official is also put to death. The official may be chosen by the citizen’s family.

[Carl Vehse]

Proposing to abolish the police department of a city of 30,000 should be sufficient grounds to commit its mayor to an insane asylum.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

The problem here is that they’re pulling a “California,” moving out of the city into the surrounding countryside and ruining our small towns in the Finger Lakes.

[old curmudgeon]

Google the mayor.

All you need to know.

[old curmudgeon]

Google the mayor.

All you need to know.

[Sgt_Schultze]

As a potential juror, I have resolved to find “innocent” any person who has been charged with harming any family member of any democrat politician.

[Osage Orange]

Svante Myrick — who has served as mayor of Ithaca, N.Y., since assuming the role in 2011 at age 24 — announced his comprehensive plan to replace the city’s current 63-officer department with a civilian-led “Community Solutions and Public Safety Department” in an interview with GQ Magazine last month.

Svante should die first...because that would be just.

[Mopp4]

“Everyone wants the police to perform better when they show up, everybody wants that,” Myrick told journalist Wesley Lowery.

Especially the criminal thugs....

It's obvious why this kid mayor is not working for NASA.....He's not a rocket scientist...

[1Old Pro]

LET THEM DO IT They deserve what happens next

Exactly, a case of show and tell.

[Bonemaker]

"A progressive mayor’s proposal to abolish the police department ..."

Oh well..people will just have to take matters into their own hands.😎

[Mr. K]

I drove through Ithaca once. The buildings and stores were dripping all over with HilLIARy signs. It seems that each was trying to outdo the other with their liberalism.

[cherry]

when, I was in hs, when we would travel by bus for away basketball games, the thuggery of the Ithaca team was always an undercurrent...because of certain circumstances, enough said....

as you come over the hill driving into Ithaca its a beautiful town...Cornell in all its glory, the beautiful Cayuga lake, the vacation home of Rod Serling, with grape vineyards and cherry orchards lining the length of the lake, its just a total crime what they have done to that place....total crime...

[PGR88]

Ithaca’s two main campuses - Cornell and Ithaca College, will still keep their campus police.

the town itself has a few rough edges, but nothing close to Los Angeles or Chicago.

At heart its still a small town.

[pepsionice]

Actually, if everyone just started carrying a shotgun in public, this would work fine. A few residents testing fate, will pass from this Earth.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Cornell is in Ithica. It makes one wonder about campus security there. Is there a campus police force? Is Cornell right in town or on the edge of town? Are the campus police real police as opposed to mall.cop type security guards? Are elements of a liberal university behind trying to force the abandonment of police in that town?

[Chode]

it'll take Cornellians getting murdered and the city sued before the pendulum starts the other way