The federal monitor appointed by the social engineering judge that ended "stop and frisk" has issued a report that states that "officers on the street may be declining to stop, question and frisk when it would be lawful and prudent to do so."
In other words the cops are afraid to do their job because they know the politicians will throw them to the wolves and they have a better chance of losing their jobs and their pensions if they act to get guns off the street. In an article in the New York Daily News the federal monitor Peter Zimroth reports that the cops are afraid of being sued or brought up on charges for stopping and frisking so they have just basiclly stopped doing it. The NYC council has pending legislation that would require cops to get written permission for anyone they stop and search. How do you think that is going to work out?
This is the basic dilemma for progressive police haters like Comrade Bill De Blasio and the Mayor of Baltimore. They hate the police. They think the real problem is not the criminals but the police. So they decide to go after the police instead of the criminals. The cops aren't stupid. They are not going to put their life and career at risk. So they take a step back. They don't worry about the broken windows. Or the obvious skells carrying a gun that they normally would have tossed. And they wonder why murders are skyrocketing and crime stats are going up and up and up.
I know. Let's fire the police commissioner.
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Wow, that was fast. DeBlasio has taken NY back to pre-Giuliani in what, eighteen months?
Back to the Future!
Law abiding citizens must take one for the team in the interest of... well... whatever! Because Diversity is Our Greatest Strength! And, it's racist to arrest and jail black criminals because they vote Democratic!
Don't bitch about getting mugged, assaulted, raped or murdered, you racists!
As we've learned over the past 7/60 years/ever since the advent of socialism, a few (hundred/thousand/million) dead people is a small price to pay for maintaining the illusion that your totally ideology is korrect and there is no need whatsoever to reassess and change course. In fact, double down on that ideology. That's the spirit!
Wife has been wanting to vacation in NYC, but that has been put on hold indefinitely. We have many of the same shops here, and while the options for theater may be limited, what's here is very good and safe to see on any night.
And Gotham is a gun-free zone.
Crime will continue to go up.
A new feature at Lem's Levity. Whose that photo. Watch for the tag.
So, while I wasn't watching did NYC secede from the Union? Is there a special provision in the fourth amendment that allows for the peace of mind of prosperous New Yorkers?
Let's see:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Nope.
Yeah, I know about Terry stops, but what was happening in NYC wasn't Terry stops. It was an abridgement of the constitutional rights of some citizens for the protection of other, more important, citizens. It was a heavy handed police state control of the underclass which was accepted because, well, they are the underclass.
If NYC is a dangerous place to live when its people are afforded the unalienable rights with which they are endowed by their creator, then so be it. Call Snake Plissken. Maybe he can help.
It would help, of course, if the city honored the second amendment along with the fourth.
NYC stopped enforcing the law in black communities during the Dinkins admin, which was allied with Sharpton.
NYC isn't any more inherently dangerous than any other place. The city descended into anarchy by deliberate governmental policy during the crack epidemic.
It took some pretty drastic measures to win the city back from the gangs.
I approve, because I lived there and I preferred to go on living and for my children to go on living.
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