Posted on 05/31/2021 10:09:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
New York City has devolved from a once-thriving metropolis into a crime-infested slum thanks to the disastrous leadership of Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio and the left’s destructive anti-police rhetoric.
The situation has gotten so bad that even some liberals are alarmed by the rampant public drug use, homelessness and violent crimes in many parts of the city.
However, liberal New Yorkers have only themselves to blame because they continue to vote for incompetent Democrats as local leaders.
In downtown Manhattan, liberals who live in trendy Greenwich Village — a noted hippie haven — are apparently horrified that the iconic Washington Square Park has morphed into a squalid drug den.
“We may be liberal but this has gone too far,” longtime local resident Steven Hill told the New York Post. “There have always been drugs in the park, mostly pot, but what’s emerged this spring is like nothing we’ve ever seen before.”
Under the soft-on-crime “leadership” of NYC’s Democratic mayor and local politicians, lawless vagrants are openly doing cocaine, crack and heroin all around the 9.75-acre, tree-lined sprawl.
“The zombies are now near the fountain, as well as next to the chess [southwest] corner,” one angry resident wrote in an email to the Post. “They’ve simply moved up about 200 meters from the now shuttered end of the park.”
The individual, who wants to remain anonymous, fears the lawlessness will get worse.
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YOU GOT WHAT YOU VOTED FOR...
Surprise !!!!!!!!
I wish there was a way to make them stay there and live with it instead of coming to Virginia and ruining my beautiful Commonwealth.
The sheer stupidity and naïveté of people who think we will achieve utopia if we just end policing and prisons is just breathtaking.
Karma.
More informative to watch reruns of “The Rifleman”.
tweaks in their collective “liberalism” will have zero effect on NY’s trajectory now. Replacing de Blasio with someone slightly less socialist will do nothing.
They are “progressing” straight into the toilet bowl.
Legalize drugs and stop enforcement of laws against shoplifting, vagrancy, simple assault, trespassing, public defecation, and prostitution - what could possibly go wrong?
“ I wish there was a way to make them stay there and live with it instead of coming to Virginia and ruining my beautiful Commonwealth”
...coming to Texas and ruining my beautiful Republic.
Time to move to Florida
And it appears that NOTHING will disuade them from their magic thinking.
Former NYPD detective Harry Houck called on New York City Police Commissioner Dermot Shea to resign Monday, hours after Shea announced that he was scrapping the department’s plainclothes anti-crime unit.
“I tell you, the plainclothes officers that are out there, the anti-crime units, are out there in plain clothes trying to watch criminals and catch them in the act,” Houck said on “The Story with Martha MacCallum.”
“Now, you [have] the perpetrators out there in the street saying, ‘Hey, listen, we don’t have to worry about undercover officers any more. We only have to worry about uniforms. So we see no uniforms. There’s no cops around.’ And believe me, they will take advantage of that.”
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The New York City Police Department on Monday announced it is disbanding its anti-crime unit and reassigning hundreds of plainclothes officers to other divisions amid widespread criticism over the department’s handling of protesters.
Commissioner Dermot Shea said roughly 600 plainclothes officers from the anti-crime unit will be reassigned to other teams. ...”
Too late. It’s all downhill from here in Virginia. My beloved Georgia is next I fear.
“ I wish there was a way to make them stay there and live with it instead of coming to Virginia and ruining my beautiful Commonwealth”
...coming to Texas and ruining my beautiful Republic.
I should add tgat I came to Texas from New York decades ago. I vote conservative. Can’t run for office because there’s a no Yankees need apply in place. Well deserved on most cases.
Yep, elections have consequences.
The Left would turn the entire country into squalor of NYC if they could.
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