Discussion for article #231882
According to the listing provided of the kinds of crimes summonses are issued for, maybe it is time to back away from revenue-generating summonses and focus on true “public endangerment” crimes, such as aggressive driving on the crowded streets of New York. When Mayor DeBlasio announced his “Vision Zero” initiative he was met with police resistance, since traffic crime doesn’t have a path to raises and promotions. This needs to be looked at, as well as public endangerment of a lesser seriousness than “carrying a gun” but which still needs attention in the interest of public safety. The war on crime, war on drugs, war on terrorism have all elevated a certain kind of crime while leaving public safety in jeopardy because of inattention to non-“big crime”-issues, and revenue producing summonses. Recalibrate this, or the current dispute will never be fixed and we will still have dead unarmed young men.
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Fewer citations, arrests and lower crime rates mean we don’t need as many police, which means the taxpayer can save money and reduce the force. Start with firing the officers who turned their backs on the mayor, they must have known the risk and been willing to pay it.
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I am very glad the rate of low level arrests have gone down. Who knows how many of these ‘arrests’ were bogus in the first place?
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Unintended benefit - maybe the NYC courts can clear some of their backlog without these trashy useless summonses being issued.
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Now cops are going to have to steal marijuana from the evidence locker. How are cops going to pay for lunch without the extra money they steal from people they shake down?. This is sad.
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The cops may have stopped issuing revenue producing citations but the city may be saving money on the offenses it does not need to process and on better outcomes for young men. And possibly a lower level of irritation may have lead to less crime: " In the past two weeks, reports of serious crimes were down to 3,704 from 4,130 in the same period a year earlier."
Perhaps the police should be urged to continue their current practice until it ceases to have this effect.
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this shows you how juvenile police are when someone questions their authority. just think if you are a minority on the street at night. citizens of ny understand, police will not do their job because they feel slighted - boo, hooo jerks
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So they’ve stopped “stop and frisk” in order to show their displeasure with being asked to stop “stop and frisk”?
Maybe the main problem with cops is that they’re just stupid.
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But Bratton says the arrests are no less necessary, despite the let-up.
“The whole thesis of ‘broken windows’ is: If over time you don’t
address an issue, over time it will create a larger issue,” he said.
Then what, pray tell, will happen if over time you do not address police brutality?
Oh, wait. Never mind.
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Think of how “standing on the sidewalk being black” offenses will go uncharged. Who’s going to dust the tasers when they’re not being used 24/7. New Yorkers will be sorry. White racist New Yorkers, I mean.