Posted on 08/10/2002 6:07:37 AM PDT by ResistorSister
You go through the tread and I'll respond to any particular point you wish to make. Fair enough?
I don't have a clue what your talking about..
He set his police department to ticket, stop, or even arrest violators of "minor violations".
The result? NYC became the safest large city in America in 5 years. Do a search on the "Broken Window theory". It wll explain all.
The upshot is that good policing can reduce crime. Duh!
Dare I ask? Hehehe... Could I see a credible source for this "New York, safest city in America" statement? If you don't mind.....I guess I missed that somewhere. I look forward to your facts backing this up.....
Uh, That's not what I asked for. You made the above statement, and I asked for a source to back it up. Now I know this isn't true. Why would you make a statement like this?
Actually, I did a little quick research, it's not only *not* the safest city, in overall ratings, it didn't even rate among the top 25 safest cities.....
I'm afraid that you've lost me with this. I did mispost a couple of days ago to someone else and if that created confusion for anyone then I apologize. At this point I don't know what your "CJ post" is referring to.
The article talks about a statistical drop in serious crimes from the aggressive enforcement of minor crimes; whereas your stats are static.
I've been driving since 1976, and I've never gotten a speeding ticket. Not that I haven't done 100mph+ on more than one occasion, I'm just very careful about when and where I open my cars up. Normally I'm doing at or below the speed limit in traffic, maybe a little over if that's what the flow demands.
My beef with traffic stops is that unless I'm doing something obviously dangerous for given road conditions, it's a waste of the cops' time to hassle me.
It was. CJ only posts when he's already lost and the only thing he might do is sway some gullible lurker somewhere....then again they'd have to be REAL gullible..
I sure wouldn't argue with that. In the event a time comes to stand my ground one day....I hope it will be of my choosing.
I think there are a good many people who dream of having their moment of glory in some confrontation. The dream may involve violence or it may involve some courtroom drama where they smite the bad guys with their brilliance and Constitutional knowledge or whatever. But that's not, IMO, smart because they're fighting on the other guy's turf and under his rules.
Why do I expect that, asked who should determine what is "obviously dangerous," your response will be "me"?
Bottom line: Respect the law by obeying the law. If you want the law changed, then work within the established framework for doing so.
Don't jeopardize my family's and my safety because you have delusions of grandeur ("h*ll, I know when Ah'm goin' too fast! I know when Ah've had too much t'drink!")
To many of the rabidly anti-government types that post on the forum, yours and my families safety is not important compared to their right to do as they please. Any adherence to the law makes one a sheeple and is a prerequisited to allowing the government to be a police state. I haven't seen too many of them posting on this thread though, but the ones that do are already spouting 'we don't know the whole story', hoping the story will die down.
My prayers go out to the widow of the fallen Officer and his 2 children.
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