Posted on 03/03/2023 12:54:07 PM PST by SJackson
Being mayor of New York comes with lots of media attention, but anyone who has held the job can tell you that the real power is in Albany, the state capital, where the governor and Legislature hold major sway over everything from the subways to the public schools.
Mayor Adams was back in Albany this month asking his state overlords to rethink bail-reform measures passed in 2019 that protect crime suspects from pretrial detention.
The number of shoplifting complaints in New York City rose by 45% in 2022 to more than 63,000, according to NYPD data.
The mayor sees an obvious connection that too many of his fellow liberal Democrats willfully ignore.
In his testimony, Adams argued that soft-on-crime policies hit poor communities the hardest, not only in terms of public safety but economically.
“When you do a real analysis in our pursuit of making sure people who commit crimes are receiving the justice they deserve, we can’t forget the people who are the victims of crimes,” he said.
The mayor also pushed back at the common argument made by social-justice advocates that arresting and prosecuting lawbreakers is tantamount to “criminalizing” poverty.
“People who state that we’re criminalizing the poor,” he said, are wrong.
Moreover, crime is costing the city jobs and businesses.
New Yorkers are “unemployed because we’re losing those businesses in our city. We can’t allow repeated offenders to make a mockery of the criminal justice system.”
Pols target NYC’s violent, repeat shoplifters with bill to protect retailer workers just like cops, firefighters The belief that poverty is the root cause of crime may be popular, but it doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. For starters, most poor people aren’t criminals.
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The real blame falls on the voters who are freakin’ morons.
CAN a SINGLE DEM SEE ANYTHING COMING DOWN THE ROAD WITH THEIR DECISIONS????
Among other things, it’s very insulting to the poor.
If I am below a certain income level I am deemed to be more likely to commit a crime.
It isn’t poverty. It’s spiritual bankruptcy.
Good news! There’s now the effects of Climate Change arriving just in time!
Poverty? The thieves are well fed with cell phone, Xboxes, reefer and fat. BLM set off a black crime wave. They’re predators. Call it what it is. Poverty has been a empty excuse for a generation.
they have it backwards. Crime is the root of poverty. At least it used to be. “Crime doesn’t pay” is now defunct.
What??? They missed an opportunity to blame Republicans???
Poverty does NOT cause crime. A rotten culture and low IQ leads to crime. Try to get robbed in Nepal.
This is from Upstate NY....
https://cnycentral.com/news/local/3-more-suspects-arrested-in-hamilton-home-invasion#
One of the perps, the juvenile, was wearing an ankle bracelet during the commission of the crime.
Some supervision, eh?
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