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| It looks like New York's getting the crime uptick politicians have been asking for |
| 2020-01-25 |
| h/t Instapundit [NYP] - Robbery is up almost 30% in New York City since the first of the year. Is this a statistical blip, a trend ‐ or a New Year’s bail-reform gift from Albany, robbery now largely being a revolving-door offense in the Empire State? Time will tell, but consider this as well: According to the latest NYPD stats, the number of shooting victims in the city is up 31% since New Year’s Day ‐ so at the very least Gotham appears to be off to a rocky 2020 compared to last year. Which should not surprise: Not only does government usually get more of what it encourages, when it comes to crime, it also gets more of what it fails to discourage. Sad to say, New York falls down on both counts. Albany’s bail-reform initiative got off to an ominously comical start. When the feds had to take custody of alleged serial bank-robber Gerod Woodberry because local judges had to keep turning him loose ‐ well, what else was there to do but laugh? But consider this: Robbery in the third degree became a revolving-door offense Jan. 1, and this was followed by a dramatic, 29% spike in reported robberies, according to the most recent ‐ albeit very short-term ‐ CompStat numbers. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 Maybe some do, but most of the supporters of this "harm reduction" philosophy are true believers. And they hunt heretics; even those who have been in contact with the heretics are unclean. We're looking at a new religion. |
| Posted by: James 2020-01-25 19:14 |
| #6 Thanx. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-01-25 12:03 |
| #5 "The model is to create chaos and then expand the bureaucracy to FTFY - no charge, #4 JohnQC. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2020-01-25 11:44 |
| #4 The model is to create chaos and then expand the bureaucracy to solve the problem. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2020-01-25 10:49 |
| #3 This is due to the far left's obsession with harm reduction. They only have two values, justice and harm reduction. And since justice will always lose to harm reduction, they really only have one value. That's what this is. They can't see anything but black men in prison. They must act to right this great wrong. That it's going to result in tremendous harm to innocent people? Yeah, their brains don't work that way. Nice try though. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2020-01-25 08:50 |
| #2 Paging Paul Kersey, paging Mr. Paul Kersey... |
| Posted by: Raj 2020-01-25 07:39 |
| #1 Some might call this related: Subway graffiti is making a resurgence in NYC. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2020-01-25 06:43 |