Damn, Nick, you are right. Forcible rape skyrocketed in 2014, when DeBlasio took office and ended stop and frisk.
Of course, if you are going to blame DeBlasio’s policy for the increase in forcible rape from 2013 to 2014, you have to give it credit for:
–decline in property crimes
–decline in murders
–decline in robberies
–decline in aggravated assaults
–decline in burglaries
–decline in larceny-theft
But, don’t worry. Your case is bolstered by the 1.6% increase in vehicle thefts.
From the NY Times piece:
"Mateo Gomez, an attendant at Laida Deli, said that the footage came from his shop and that he recognized the suspects as young men who came to the store most afternoons, sometimes stealing cakes and other snacks.
“They’re bad boys,” he said, shaking his head.
Merely being the messenger here.
My daughter has live in Queens now for 4 years, and before that on SI for 1 year. At first, she was excited and thrilled to be in NYC. Since a year, she has just been totally down on the city. She has told us that the racial climate is just terrible, and the level of anxiety and hostility is going up, up, up. She gets called a “racist” by black persons for stuff like not letting them cut in line ahead of her. All she can talk about now is getting out of NYC and living anywhere but there.
Is there also a “ghetto culture” in Ohio, Alabama, Florida and Tennessee? In that last one basketball players raped a team mate with the pool stick. Get off your high horse.
And that, folks, is “Enabling Demo 1: Everyone does it, so what’s your fucking problem”.
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Just provide the link so I don’t have to decide whether you heard it from your effeminate son-in-law or read it in The Times.
Bernard Briggs, a city bus driver, said he started to fear the young men who typically fill the playground at night after a run-in a few weeks ago. He had gone to use the men’s room when three men broke away from a group playing basketball to charge the bathroom door, trying to trap Mr. Briggs inside. Mr. Briggs said he fought his way out.
“There’s always young guys in this section; if they feel you’re vulnerable they come after you,” Mr. Briggs, 54, said. “I feel so terrible for the young lady.
We appreciate your strict objectivity.
I fully agree that city policies have contributed to the increase in reported rapes, and I applaud those policies
It is not hard to see why mining good news out of escalating sexual-assault figures would present a challenge for the department. But when you talk to those ministering to rape survivors, their tone is uniformly nonalarmist; they attribute the rising numbers to an uptick in the reporting of the crimes. And this, in turn, is regarded as a result of more concerted outreach, much of it in poor communities — where Emma Sulkowicz, the mattress-bearing Columbia University activist, has not attained the celebrity she has managed elsewhere — and much of it conducted by the Police Department, which has worked with hospital emergency rooms to encourage reporting.
“We have no reason to believe there is more sexual assault than was happening last year at this time,” Liz Roberts, the deputy chairwoman of Safe Horizon, the largest victims’ services agency in the city, told me. There has been no increase, for instance, in calls to the organization’s sexual-assault hotline. “In terms of N.Y.P.D. response, we have seen a lot of attention to this issue in the last few years,” she said. “They have been engaging with victims’ services on a different level.”
One important change made in the past year is related to protocol. Previously, a sexual-assault victim who went to the hospital would have to call 911 to report what had happened. A patrol officer would then come and speak with her, assess the case and, depending on that assessment, contact a detective from the Special Victims Unit. The reporting process has been streamlined so that a victim is able to see someone from the unit right away (as she would in an episode of “Law & Order: SVU”). She is in contact, more quickly, with someone trained to deal with what she is going through, and the special victims squad is more capable of recognizing and documenting the crimes.
Similarly, this year the department formalized a program that better serves victims who don’t speak English. Previously, a United Nations translator might have been called in; now translators are themselves police officers. If a rape victim speaks only Lithuanian, “we can deliver a Lithuanian-speaking police officer,” Stephen Davis, the Police Department’s chief spokesman, told me.
I’m not enabling anything. That Stubenville case, and there are many others, indicate a cultural problem with young people and rape. If you choose to ignore that then I would say YOU are the one doing the enabling.
LOL You don’t know where I have lived, so don’t pretend to know because I don’t agree with your often fairly overtly racist ideology. Yes, we all know there is a criminal subculture in parts of the inner city. Nobody denies that. What’s ridiculous is the denial of the fact that this subculture exists in the white community as well. You act as though a criminal subculture is specific to black people. It’s not. This crime isn’t even “gangsta” (who even says that anymore?). It’s the sort of thing that happens in fucking high schools in rural Ohio, but you want to make it specific to black, inner city culture. That’s part of the problem. When people like you take brutal and horrific crimes, crimes often committed by white people, and then want to make some broad statement about the whole of a community. If this crime were as common to the black community as you suggest then why is it even national news?
It’s white KIDS, buddy, KIDS shooting up their high schools. And yet, I’ve never seen you post any commentary about the need for white communities to address that problem. However, when it’s a group of black kids who commit a similarly vile crime then it becomes an indictment on the whole.
Typical. “Go ask a black” this statement is so telling in so very many ways…Tell me, this “black” I speak to, should this person be the designated speaker for the black community, or should I ask that the community vote for someone to hold that title when they next convene their local meeting of the National Black People Agreement Association?
This is the exact same shit some racist white people ask every time there is some sort of police shooting. “Why aren’t they marching against black on black violence? Why aren’t they doing something about that?” We have, and we are! Because you don’t see the work going on behind the scenes, because you don’t see the community activism, because you don’t care to see it since it doesn’t fit within your narrative, you assume it’s not there. Every week, various minority organizations, from which most of BLM originated, hold vigils and marches against violence. There are violence “interrupters” and “street ambassadors” out in neighborhoods doing everything they can to end the violence. The Urban League and NAACP as well as black churches are constantly in their communities working with youth, through a wide variety of programs, to get kids off the streets and into education. Because the local news doesn’t cover it doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
This has nothing to do with race, and I’d look askance at anyone who would look at that first when hearing about this crime.
That said, if they were white, we’d have at least two articles on TPM and a dozen commentators sneering about white privilege. Anyone attempting to point out the fallacy would be slammed for their ‘white fragility’.
not surprising that the bigots are out in full force. they can’t even take the time to even mention the victim.
you know what? i’ve lived in nyc a long time and have been the victim of violent crimes and after each incident i was so fucking glad i didn’t have a gun because if i did, without question, i’d be dead.
you’re an idiot.
Perhaps the police have the right kids. I have no idea. But ever since the Central Park 5 case, I try to withhold judgment.
What do you mean here? Do you mean that the gun would be taken from you? Or that it would lead to an escalation? I’m not questioning your comment, just asking for a little clarification. Unless your name is Goetz.
in my cases, it would have been taken from me and used against me. but let’s say hypothetically i was strong enough and/or saw it coming to have been able to hang on to a gun, it definitely would have escalated. the times where i’ve had guns drawn on me, i would have been shot if i had had a gun myself.
I understand. The whole notion of the “defensive firearm use” is ridiculous, and I agree about that. If they have the “drop” on you, and you reach into your pocket, you are likely to be shot, and if some young man is there, he may often be stronger than am I (63 somewhat overweight guy) and get the gun anyway. If the bad person could be distracted by tossing the wallet or something, maybe you could get to your gun, but with 5 guys? Very doubtful.
bullshit.
I have been a NYC resident for the past 33 years, and everyone I know thinks stop-and-frisk was an unjust policy. You may speak for your daughter, but neither you nor your daughter speak for all NYC residents! And as for the “racial climate,” at no time in the 33 years I have lived here were race relations worse than during the mayoralty of Rudolph Giuliani!
What do folk like RichardjinJax assume that Black Lives Matter doesn’t address the problem of urban crime? But as PluckyinKY suggest, it seems RichardjinJax found an excuse to demonize BLM. Shows he doesn’t know much about the agenda of Black Lives Matters.
Sheesh! Where did you get this nonsense from? The New York Post?