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Opening Soon In New York: Higher Crime Rates?
Scott Stringer’s vision for a dystopian mayoralty.
The latest effort from French filmmaker Luc Besson, Lockout, is an unmemorable and derivative science fiction flick set in the distant year of 2079. The action takes place on a space station orbiting Earth where violent criminals are held in suspended animation until — surprise, surprise — something goes horribly wrong. The hardened anti-hero is left with no choice but to use his dry wits and his fists to rescue the president’s daughter from rampaging space prisoners. I had seen it all before a hundred times, as has any fan of schlocky action films. But one moment in this otherwise tepid movie made me take pause.
In an expository scene, the hardened anti-hero is chased through the streets of New York City by various law enforcement agencies. He runs into a subway station to make his escape, but his pursuers get the better of him. As a New Yorker, I drew two observations from the scene. First, I doubt the already strapped Metropolitan Transit Authority will be fiscally solvent enough to run trains by 2079. Oh, they will certainly find some way to collect fares and increase them every year or two. But to assume that there will still be subway service in 2079 — a bleak, dystopian 2079, no less — is quite a leap of faith on Besson’s part. But with even greater interest, I noticed that the train cars of 2079 were covered with graffiti, something that would not be alien in the New York of 1979.
Such sorry tin cans were accurately depicted in films of the '70s and '80s like Weekend at Bernie’s, The Warriors, and Deathwish. Graffiti artists were known to compete by seeing how many train cars bearing their “tags” would pass by in a given amount of time, and proudly took photos to document their elaborate murals. That was then. The subway cars of present day Gotham are gleaming, graffiti free visions in stainless steel, far removed from the griminess of the bad old days.
This turnaround stemmed from a drastic policy shift. Reasoning that subterranean Picassos would have little incentive to “tag” trains if few would ever see their masterpieces, the MTA began dispatching crews to clean vandalized trains. It took several years to scrub all of the rolling stock clean. Once the MTA caught up with the mess, they began to remove newly defaced cars from the system at first opportunity.
The subway stations, too, underwent a makeover. Fare dodgers, public urinators, and other petty “quality of life” criminals — including vandals — were aggressively targeted under a new order called the Broken Windows theory of policing, introduced by George Kelling and the recently departed and deeply missed James Q. Wilson in a 1982 article in the Atlantic.
Nip minor criminal behaviors in the bud early, went their line of thinking, and you will not only curb van dalism, fare evasion, and littering — you’ll also restore a sense of order and lower the rate of major crimes. Kelling has been known to say of the New York City Transit system that not all people who jump turnstiles are major criminals, but most major criminals tend to jump turnstiles.
William Bratton, former chief of the New York City Transit Police and intellectual devotee of Kelling, was made police commissioner when Mayor Rudolph Giuliani took the reins in the early 1990s. Bratton and those who followed him such as current Commissioner Ray Kelly brought to scale policing practices tested in the “lab” of the transit system. Crime dropped precipitously, the city once thought ungovernable became a more desirable place to live, work, and play, and tales of being accosted by streetwalkers in Times Square or being mugged in Central Park fell mostly into the wheelhouse of grizzled veteran residents.
But the NYPD’s effective policing tactics have been called to question in a recent flurry of negative press. The Associated Press garnered a Pulitzer Prize for attacking the aggressive intelligence gathering operation that has uncovered numerous terrorist plots in the years since 9/11, an intelligence program that has earned praise from the top Obama counterterrorism official for balancing civil liberties and security. Whistleblowers have alleged that beat cops have been encouraged by the brass to under-report certain crimes to keep statistics low. And most notably, organizations such as the NYCLU, hand-in-hand with old guard members of the racial industrial complex like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, have challenged the practice of stop-and-frisk, in which officers may briefly detain a person upon reasonable suspicion that they have committed a crime without probable cause. Their gripe is that the practice must be unfair because the majority of those stopped are men of color.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, a presumed mayoral candidate, recently wrote an incredibly disingenuous piece in the Nation that was doubtless an attempt to score points with these peddlers of racial disharmony. Stringer pegs his article, entitled “Beyond Stop-And-Frisk: Toward Policing That Works,” to the controversial shooting of Trayvon Martin, the apparently innocent Florida teen who was shot by community watch leader George Zimmerman. Stringer advances the prejudicial notion — favored by guilty white liberals and race baiters alike — that Zimmerman shot Trayvon for the crime of being a black teen wearing a hooded sweatshirt.
A remarkable Reuters piece clearly establishes a chain of events in which Zimmerman — himself a person of mixed race — likely based his tragic decision on the fact that someone who resembled the criminals he had witnessed terrorizing his neighborhood beat the tar out of him when questioned for erratic behavior. This sympathetic and balanced portrayal — which apparently has gone woefully unread by the liberal establishment — is from Reuters, an outlet that usually receives the rubber stamp of approval from the left.
Stringer’s spurious assumption about the Martin case is an apt segue into his flawed thinking about New York’s policing. He assumes that cops are simply looking for black and Hispanic kids to stop. Actually, they are looking for people who fit the profiles of crimes committed according to victim identification. Stringer laments that 87 percent of stop-and-frisks were of blacks and Hispanics last year, despite these groups making up only 54 percent of the population.
While these numbers are scandalous on face, Stringer selectively ignores some equally important stats. Over 91 percent of murder suspects last year were black and Hispanic, according to readily available NYPD stats. Notably, 88 percent of murder victims were also black and Hispanic. Oh, and 83 percent of rape suspects, 76 percent of victims. 95 percent of robbery suspects, 68 percent of victims. The pattern holds across the board. That’s the real story that Stringer should be focusing on; the perpetrators and victims of crimes in New York City — ranging from misdemeanors to murder — are overwhelmingly people of color.
It could be reasonably argued that no one benefits from stop-and-frisk and other aggressive policing practices more than people of color, who are inundated by crime within their own communities. But you’d never gather as much from Stringer’s contorted logic. And you certainly won’t hear that truth from the lips of activists like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. But then, it would be naive to expect such honesty from the men who gave us Tawana Brawley and who wax poetic on Greek “homos,” Korean grocers, and the “hymies” of New York.
Sensible New Yorkers know that the NYPD’s tactics are working. According to a Daily News poll, almost half support stop-and-frisk as “legitimate police work,” while a whopping 57 percent support the surveillance program maligned by the AP. This despite Stringer’s bizarre contention that stop-and-frisk is “not working.”
What is Stringer’s proposed alternative method of policing, by the way? According to his article, he favors community policing initiatives such as one in which neighborhood leaders “call in” gang leaders and other malcontents for a meeting and give them a stern talking to. Pondering what New York of 2079 will look like might be a moot point after a Stringer administration.
About the Author
Bill Zeiser is a communications consultant living in New York City and a 2012 Publius Fellow of the Claremont Institute. Follow him on Twitter @BillZeiser.
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numbatdog| 5.9.12 @ 7:09AM
It is a sad fact that once liberals turn a city into something that suits their leftist sense of "fairness", it rapidly becomes bankrupt, crime ridden and unlivable.
And then - They leave!
Disillusioned with constant crime and high taxes, they leave their self created utopia and head for a safe, clean well run city.
Where they quickly begin to institute the self same policies which drove them out of their original city.
They would love to do the same to New York, a liberal Mecca with uncharacteristic tough policing standards, thanks to Guiliani. Liberals are trying very hard to return to the good old days of the 70's with its filth, aggressive begging, mugging, squeegie men, no go areas and gang graffitti everywhere.
If they succeed, New York will return to it's traditional murder rate and seediness and the self absorbed spoilers will move on.
DG in GA| 5.9.12 @ 9:21AM
I've always wondered why, when Guiliani cleaned up New York, all the liberals (especially liberal writers) did was bitch about how the city just wasn't the same. Like having a crime-ridden, unsafe place where hookers, muggers and even worse predators roam freely; that's dirty, grimy and littered; where you have to climb over homeless people in order to get into your apartment building is a GOOD thing. I have always hated New York. I just didn't understand why anyone would wish to live in such a place. After Guiliani I STILL hate New york, but at least it's more palatable to be there. Give me Chicago any day - although Chicago is going the way of the old New York. But don't walk downtown at night in Atlanta...
yips| 5.9.12 @ 10:12AM
My take on why liberals and big city lefties put up with the "cleaning up" of New York and the tougher stance on crime is not really because they are appreciative of this -- after all, in a liberal's very narrow, delusioned mind, it is always someone else who gets mugged.
The reason that they put up with this and only whine about the nostalgia of yesteryear in NYC when appropriate to do so is -- MONEY. New York City is the world's city. But not by much. London gives it a good run for the MONEY. Paris comes in third. By comparison London and Paris significantly top NYC as less crime ridden millions metropolises always.
I think you have to live outside the USA for awhile to hear how often young people, women, shoppers, theater-goers, skyscraper nuts, art buffs, architects, fashonistas, clubbers, etc. gawk and gasp at and about NYC. In Berlin. In Rome. In Milan, Madrid and Copenhagen. In Rio and in Buenos Aires and Mexico City. Women positively swoon at the chance to walk in places where their movie or TV idols have walked. They want their picture taken right there, yes, right there in Central Park where....or at Macy's or at the Waldorf Astoria.... Some men get all giddy about going to see the Yankees play. No, they don't like baseball or understand it, but it is just a manly thing, an iconic thing to go do. Or to just walk up to a NYPD cop and ask for a picture together. A lot of men want to personally eye Wall Street and see the NYSE. Or to have a reggae yellow cabbie from Jamaica take you up Fifth Ave and talk at ya mon!
But they all stay away when NYC has the known atrocious crime of the 1970's and 1980's.
When the girls, teens, and women cannot play their favorite character in Times Square and stare at the lights and dance around....they don't come. Their cash don't come.
People underestimate the power of tourism, international tourism and the MONEY that positively rains down like a monsoon when tourism booms.
My view: The libs and others who like the graffiti, boom box, big affro, ghetto scene, gang myths, open drug scene, and bums pushing shopping carts are also often ones who stand to make a lot of money when the legions of tourists are coming for a long weekend, a week, or a whole month.
If it were not for the gobs of potential money, these libs would be out there trying their hand at multi spray can graffiti this evening.
tdiinva| 5.9.12 @ 1:05PM
Your assumption that London is safer than NYC or any American city is woefully out of date. The violent crime rate in the UK is four times the US rate and while statistically you are far less likely to be murdered your chances of having your home invaded by thugs or assaulted and/or raped on the street are far higher in London than NYC and even DC. Plus if are White and reading this post your probability of being murdered in the US is less than the rate in the UK.
yips| 5.10.12 @ 3:04AM
tdiinva, it is not my assumption. I've been in all three places for segments of my life. I will agree that the trend in London is woeful. Trending very bad. It is the same in Paris. But NYC and all its boroughs is still the clear worst of the three.
Also a caveat: I'm talking the central places in these world class cities where tourists and business travelers go. The center 9 square miles.
What I aimed to get across in this post is that all cities of all sizes can benefit greatly from not just the reputation but the facts that back up excellent public safety for inhabitants and visitors - year round.
I don't know why civic leaders, mayors, governors, store owners, bank managers, Chambers of Commerce ("City of Baltimore, are you listening?!") don't get this. I don't know why cities on the east coast like Philadelphia, Newark, Baltimore, Richmond and Norfolk are unsafe sewers. Even downtown church pastors ought to be out on the stump weekly decrying city violence, vagrancy, thievery, and defacing. They ought to be the loudest screaming at mayors and chiefs of police. Their congregations get old and there are no young families around to be the next generation of parishoners. The churches, sometimes symbols of a neighborhood, wither and die. And more darkness encroaches on the city.
On a weekend summer night, people ought to be able to convene, sit, enjoy, stroll, and walk about in perfect peace until sunrise -- in cities of all sizes.
Why is this not possible to realize?
You can make titanic money when people feel safe and have wallets to empty and time on their hands.
tdiinva| 5.10.12 @ 9:24PM
Your second paragraph contradicts the first. Either you are comparing metro areas or the business/tourist areas. Every city, including Detroit, has a safe zone. Tourists may stay in the bubble but residents don't. A resident of NYC is safer than a resident of London.
WhiteTigerTX| 5.9.12 @ 3:38PM
Don't go downtown at night in just about ANY big metropolitan center. All cities suffer the same class of "entitlists". These are people who feel it is beneath their dignity and sense of self importance to actually work and make something of themselves. Instead, it is far easier to take by force what someone else has. Concealed carry and "stand your ground" laws are more effective than politicians any day.
TLP| 5.9.12 @ 7:39AM
1st of all - Trayvon Martin. "The apparently innocent teen"?
Let's remember that, the pictures of a little kid, used by the Press, and the Media, was NOT the person that was shot that night. The person who was shot that night, was 6' tall, weighed over 180 lbs. was a Football Player, and according to the EVIDENCE we know of, it was "The apparently innocent teen" who was the aggressor.
The Media has done its best to muddy the waters, with their LIES, and stir up a Hornets Nest, with their Half Truths. They have been pouring gasoline on this incident, since Day 1, with their REFUSAL to even show us a Real Time Picture of this guy.
We've got one White Guy in a Coma, and 2 more Whites, in Virginia, who were singled out by A BLACK MOB, and were Beaten because of the Colour of their skin, and NOBODY gives a Fck.
Al Sharpton is a Racist, Anti-Semite, with a LAUNDRY LIST of Hate Crimes, Murders, Arson, and Inciting to Riot, to go along with his YEARS of Non Payment of Taxes, of over $1,000,000. Yet, he walks around, free. He has a gig on MSSCKMYDCK, and He is the official "Liaison to the Black Community" for this Blckccksckr in the White House, who's been having his RACIST A.G. - Scumbag Holder - Running Guns to Mexican Drug Cartels, and Killing Mexicans like it' Hunting Season on Mexicans.
And, nobody gives a Fck.
Blacks kill other Blacks, like the rest of us swat flies, or go to the toilet.
Mr. Zeiser has given us the Statistics. Over 91% of all MURDER SUSPECTS are Black and Hispanic. 88% of the Victims of these Murders, were Bkack ornHispanic, as well. 83% of Rape Suspects. 95% of Robbery Suspects.
NOBODY GIVES A FCK.
They're Animals. They BREED like Animals. They ACT like Animals - (The #1 Cause ofnDeath for young Black Males between the ages of 14 and 24 is HOMICIDE.) Because, they're Animals.
They will Kill you for any slight, real or imagined. They will Kill you for your Jacket. They will Kill you for your Shoes. They will Kill you for your Cell Phone, your Bicycle, or any Apple Product you might have. They will Kill you if you bump in to them. And they will Kill you if you LOOK at them.
They Riot in the Streets. They Flash Mob the Jewelry Store, the Electronics Store, and the Korean Grocery Store. They Flash Mob McDonalds, Burger King, and whatever other place they can Smash their way in, to STEAL what they want, and BEAT anyone who tries to stop them
They travel in Packs, like Animals. They have Flash Mobbed entire Main Streets in Cities like Philly, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Baltimore. They are 12% of the Population, yet they Committ 56% of all VIOLENT CRIMES.
They have become a PLAGUE. The new Black Death. Killing, and Destroying anything and everything in their path. Leaving Death and Desolation in their wake.
Everybody else, gets along. Every other group that comes here, lives their lives NOT Raping and Robbing and Killing and TERRORIZING their neighbors. They get Married, have Children, and Raise Families. Just the OPPOSITE, of those who, Seemingly, have Devolved back to their Primative State. Becoming more Animal, than Man.
Only ONE GROUP is Universally Hated, by every other Group. And for good reason.
As long as we keep EXCUSING Rover, for Pissing on the Rug? We can count on Rober to continue Pissing on the Rug. And, if anyone has a problem with this?
I don't give a Fck.
WRTolkas| 5.9.12 @ 8:14AM
Dear TLP,
Don't hold back; tell us what you really think. Actually, what is sad about your comment is the statistics' truthfulness . I've seen the combat zone of detroit - the liberal's utopia.
TLP| 5.9.12 @ 9:23AM
Actually, what's really sad, is all of the Spelling errors.
I miss my Spell Check App.
Dick Nome| 5.9.12 @ 9:26AM
Detroit is not a combat zome, it is No-Man's Land.
George Collins| 5.9.12 @ 11:29AM
Detroit is actually quite nice, but in desperate need of some repairs. Try visiting beautiful Indian Village, or Flood's on St. Antoine, or Baker's on Livernois for live music. Woodward St. in summer for the auto parade is amazing. I don't think that Detroit is any liberal's utopia: What I love about Detroit is they actually make things of value there, with more engineers than any other city in the US. Liberals have tried to destroy Detroit with idiotic union rules and high taxes, but overall, it should be a comeback story over the next couple of years. Businesses are moving back into town and Ford Field and Comerica Park are right downtown and great places to see a game.
WRTolkas| 5.9.12 @ 12:01PM
Dear Mr. Collins,
I do hope you are correct. A few years ago, I attended an IEEE symposium held at the Renaissance Center for a week. Just for briefness I'll just say that my stay was hell, and the cherry on the top was my boss' credit card and my credit card numbers were highjacked at the Renaissance Center - the only place I used my business card for near a year. If the IEEE has another symposium in detroit, I will not attend.
Skippy| 5.9.12 @ 1:06PM
As a boy I lived on Livernois past 9 Mile in Ferndale.
What condition is this neighborhood in today?
It was quite pleasant in the early 60's.
tdiinva| 5.9.12 @ 1:08PM
If Detroit becomes civilized again it will be because of Michigan's conceal and carry laws. Citizens are fed up with the gangs and the unsafe streets. They are arming up and shooting the thugs when they break into their homes.
However, GM is on the downward slide again and its going to die. Detroit is finished and by midcentury it will be a small town amidst a ruined city.
Pat| 5.9.12 @ 3:00PM
Tdiinva: You’ve got a pretty good bead on Detroit’s eventual fate but I doubt concealed carry laws will make an iota of difference. By mid-century, sociologists will be flocking to Detroit for field studies and exploration of a modern mystery unexplainable within civilized societies. Among academics, Detroit already receives much press – a phenomena of a city, a primitive community nestled within the most advanced technological society on the planet.
At present, approximately 40% of the city’s residential neighborhoods are abandoned – complete with deer grazing undisturbed among former playgrounds and backyards. Unemployment is high, while existing employment is largely dependent upon government jobs as well as private employment funded by various social welfare agencies.
At present, the city survives under a negotiated financial plan administered by the state of Michigan – Detroit would be hopelessly bankrupt if the state hadn’t stepped in financially to avoid a national embarrassment. Even with the bailout, the City can’t afford to maintain its street lighting – some populated neighborhoods have been dark since last Halloween. The residents are incapable of self-government, the City Council is composed of race baiters and hysterics, government corruption is so endemic and matter of fact it’s barely news anymore and the only local heroes are professional athletes.
No theory explains modern Detroit. Every sociological and psychological argument says today’s Detroit shouldn’t exist within the United States. Nothing within the civics textbooks explains the complete failure of responsible self-government to take hold. Investing in a well-fortified bed and breakfast to host anthropologists and sociologists doing their future field studies should become a thriving industry within a city once famous for other industries - industries which have long since dried up and blown away.
Lesser Weevil| 5.10.12 @ 3:00AM
That kind of talk will get you fired over at National Review.
gearjammer| 5.9.12 @ 5:56PM
Let us have a late night drink or two this summer and just stroll along. We can sing together-what a wonderful world, perhaps. if I don't get there start without me-tra la tra la,
Foam-at-mouth angry white guy| 5.9.12 @ 10:57AM
Yeah! Damn straight, TLP!
And another thing...disappeared from radar screens 50 minutes into what was meant to be a man in a Texas prison received four out of 10 votes in West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary...mares eat oats and does eat oats and little lambs eat ivy, and You couldn't wake up Jimmie Davis with an earthquake! And What a collection of left-wing victimization claptrap, the best that can be said of these topics is that they’re so irrelevant no one will ever look at them...Sorry 4 bringing Wrath of Kahn Lovelies!Feelings r 1 thing but no right 2 let mean spirit run free! Anger in heart made me turn back on Luv. But it was too late...TLP said the new Clinton is more free, going out and having fun, even drinking beer, there was virtually no international pressure on Iran. We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun...stuff you already knew but makes me feel good to rant about...Wake-up, white people, it's morning in Mozambique, and utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. There, I said it!
TLP, you are my god!
TLP| 5.9.12 @ 1:48PM
I don't get it.
Foam-at-mouth angry white guy| 5.9.12 @ 3:11PM
Aaargy-Baargy! Ooga-Booga! Eeenie-menie-miney-Let's remember-mo- that, the pictures of a little kid, used by the Press, and the Media, was NOT the person that was shot that night. The person who was shot that night, was 6' tall, weighed over 180 lbs. was a Football Player, and according to the EVIDENCE we know of, it was "The apparently innocent teen" who was the aggressor. The Media has done its best to muddy the waters, with their LIES, and stir up a Hornets Nest, with their Half Truths. They have been pouring gasoline on this incident, since Day 1, with their REFUSAL to even show us a Real Time Picture of this guy. We've got one White Guy in a Coma, and 2 more Whites, in Virginia, who were singled out by A BLACK MOB, and were Beaten because of the Colour of their skin, and NOBODY gives a Fck. Al Sharpton is a Racist, Anti-Semite, with a LAUNDRY LIST of Hate Crimes, Murders, Arson, and Inciting to Riot, to go along with his YEARS of Non Payment of Taxes, of over $1,000,000. Yet, he walks around, free. He has a gig on MSSCKMYDCK, and He is the official "Liaison to the Black Community" for this Blckccksckr in the White House, who's been having his RACIST A.G. - Scumbag Holder - Running Guns to Mexican Drug Cartels, and Killing Mexicans like it' Hunting Season on Mexicans. And, nobody gives a Fck. Blacks kill other Blacks, like the rest of us swat flies, or go to the toilet. Mr. Zeiser has given us the Statistics. Over 91% of all MURDER SUSPECTS are Black and Hispanic. 88% of the Victims of these Murders, were Bkack ornHispanic, as well. 83% of Rape Suspects. 95% of Robbery Suspects. NOBODY GIVES A FCK. They're Animals. They BREED like Animals. They ACT like Animals - (The #1 Cause ofnDeath for young Black Males between the ages of 14 and 24 is HOMICIDE.) Because, they're Animals. They will Kill you for any slight, real or imagined. They will Kill you for your Jacket. They will Kill you for your Shoes. They will Kill you for your Cell Phone, your Bicycle, or any Apple Product you might have. They will Kill you if you bump in to them. And they will Kill you if you LOOK at them. They Riot in the Streets. They Flash Mob the Jewelry Store, the Electronics Store, and the Korean Grocery Store. They Flash Mob McDonalds, Burger King, and whatever other place they can Smash their way in, to STEAL what they want, and BEAT anyone who tries to stop them They travel in Packs, like Animals. They have Flash Mobbed entire Main Streets in Cities like Philly, Chicago, Milwaukee, and Baltimore. They are 12% of the Population, yet they Committ 56% of all VIOLENT CRIMES. They have become a PLAGUE. The new Black Death. Killing, and Destroying anything and everything in their path. Leaving Death and Desolation in their wake. Everybody else, gets along. Every other group that comes here, lives their lives NOT Raping and Robbing and Killing and TERRORIZING their neighbors. They get Married, have Children, and Raise Families. Just the OPPOSITE, of those who, Seemingly, have Devolved back to their Primative State. Becoming more Animal, than Man. Only ONE GROUP is Universally Hated, by every other Group. And for good reason. As long as we keep EXCUSING Rover, for Pissing on the Rug? We can count on Rober to continue Pissing on the Rug. And, if anyone has a problem with this? I don't give a Fck.
Mr. New Castrati| 5.9.12 @ 3:13PM
You are SUCH a racist! You, Sir, are not fit to shine Jesse Jackson's shoes.
play nice| 5.9.12 @ 3:54PM
or fix His grits
TLP| 5.9.12 @ 6:07PM
Why don't you tell everybody what I said that wasn't TRUE?
Otherwise, STFU.
Mr. New Castrati| 5.9.12 @ 7:06PM
You, Sir, are also a vulgar jackass!
You're probably one of those southern-fried grit-twits who rides around in a Ford pick-up with guns in the rear-window and an "I Heart Bush" sticker.
Soooooo rude!
WRTolkas| 5.9.12 @ 9:38PM
Dear Mr. New Castrati,
If TLP were to drive by, I'd tip my hat to him.
glenny| 5.10.12 @ 1:02PM
Hey, Castrated One, as a southern fried gentleman who DOESN'T drive a pickup with a gun, you're probably one of those East/West coast, half-baked potato-eating limousine riding liberals who lives in the same gated community that George Zimmerman lives. Why would that be? Oh yeah, so the "bad" people you're so quick to defend won't get you. Man up, dude.
I don't give a damn about Trayvon b/c, frankly, neither does Jesse, Al, Calypso Louie, the NYT/WaPo/CNN or the pResident. Otherwise, I'd suggest you pick up a weapon (or maybe a megaphone) and decry all of the black on black and the black on white crime. Either way, I DON'T GIVE A DAMN!
glenny
gearjammer| 5.9.12 @ 6:04PM
What about Denzell ? He's ok-right ! Look call them savages, not animals. Animals can be ok. Look do you also incude all the highly educated, rich, nice looking libs in hwood, and tv and academia etc in this group. They are animals too-they should not fool you. I consider all the media libs animals-ever see
david Gregory and his nasty look and smirk-he's an animal-there all animals or better savages-every single stinking liberal or democrat or lefty is one. All of them. Carville is an animal-but Hannitty likes him-heard him say it today. The guy is an animal-a ruthless savage,
TLP| 5.10.12 @ 7:21AM
I don't see the Hollywood Types, that you refer to, in the Violent Crime Data put out by the FBI.
Do you?
jocon307 | 5.9.12 @ 8:00AM
There's nothing new here. The Left supports criminals not the law abiding.
The race of those involved doesn't matter.
TLP| 5.10.12 @ 7:34AM
You're wrong.
We have a - BLACKS ONLY - Justice Department, being run by a BLACK Attorney General, in Conjunction with this BLACK PRESIDENT'S wishes.
After watching all of these BLACKS, Drop the charges against their BLACK PANTHER buddies, for BLATANT Voting Rights Act Violations, and their BLACK Pals - Sharpton, Farrakhan, and (Surprise!) The Black Panthers, running wild in Sanford Fla. and putting Bounties out for people "Dead or Alive".
The Race of those involved MATTERS.
tdiinva| 5.9.12 @ 9:07AM
I reiterate: Crime is the Progressive's first choice for social control. The gangs that control vast parts of our deep blue cities are in bed with the Political establishment.
FastJohnny| 5.9.12 @ 9:34AM
Oh yes, nothing like a 'stern talking to' by community watch members to make gang members fall in to line. Why didn't we think of this sooner....
Reminds me of my sister in law and her two kids. They never were held accountable for their actions and instead of discipline or punishment when they were badly behaved, they were talked to or (my favorite) 'reasoned with'. Well, they are teenagers now and spoiled rotten, lazy ne'er do wells. They fit well in their uppity suburb of northern NJ, just outside of NYC.
Skippy| 5.9.12 @ 1:07PM
Let me guess; Upper Montclair NJ?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.9.12 @ 10:51AM
A part of what the Giuliani accomplished in New York was to drive the criminal populations away from NYC, as opposed to change them. It should be recalled that overlapping and concurrent with his terms as Mayor of Gotham, welfare reform was finally passed by the Republican Congress Class of 1994 and after two vetoes signed by Clinton in 1996. Multigenerational welfare families with their connected violence and gang prone members were uprooted from the NYC welfare teat.
Not all went out and got jobs, or went on to serve extended prison terms as guests of New York State. Many crossed the bridges and tunnels into New Jersey. While some settled there, a number went to Allentown (not being fans of Billy Joel, I guess they didn’t know this was a place already on its butt since the late 70s) and other small cities in Pa. Some more went down the Turnpike, paid the $3 toll on the Delaware Memorial Bridge and settled here.
Our prisons are now full of offenders claiming NYC Blood sets and/ or whose personal data sheets read “Place of Birth: New York”, and our government service centers are full of as many people speaking with Brooklyn accents as Bensonhurst. Wilmington now has a murder rate equivalent per capita with Baltimore and Detroit, and way too many people were happy in 2009 when the Yankees beat the Phillies in the World Series.
For folks in every other jurisdiction south and west of here, though, remember, when the benefits are exhausted in our state, these folks are going to need to go somewhere else. If you start seeing red baseball caps with NY on them in your local mall’s sporting goods store, look for the rest to follow.
cicero| 5.9.12 @ 11:03AM
Back in the good old days of the liberal dominated 60s and 70s, the mantra was that everyone had to tolerate the disfunctional poor, because they were like they were as a result of being deprived of the necessities by the wealthy, working members of society. The accompanying mantra was that we couldn't abandone the central cities, as they were necessary to the rest of the state. Then, the rest of the state asked the unthinkable question: why? Since then, the working class, the middle class, has abandoned the disfunctional central cities (both middle class people of color, and white). The result is Detroit, Newark, Philidelphia, etc. The liberal establishment who remain have enclaved themselves in secure little pockets, and delude themselves into thinking that they are safe. Unless and until the society as a whole stops tolerating uncivilized behavior, and stops subsidizing it, the slide will continue. When the civilized finally tire of moving and being pushed further and further out, and decide to make a stand, the issue will be decided violently. If this is to be avoided, the State will have to live up to the responsibilities assumedd by it in the social compact, or admit it is unwilling to do so, and step aside.
Pat| 5.9.12 @ 12:24PM
So, another inspiring tale of how the mentally unbalanced citizens of New York handle their crime problem. Criminals with cans of spray paint deface subway cars solely for their own amusement. The City hatches a brilliant plan to foil these criminals – remove the graffiti from the subway cars regardless of cost. So, an army of City workers is dispatched to remove the graffiti – we “gotcha” New York putzes. But who paid for the psychologists to dream up this master plan? Those City workers armed with strong chemicals scrubbing subway cars – who paid them?
Why weren’t the graffiti artists scrubbing down subway cars on a bread and water diet – well, first you need to catch them and the NYPD had no desire to apprehend them. And not because the NYPD are slackers, they’re a highly professional police force but rather because it’s far too expensive to catch them, arraign them, incarcerate them and haul out a Legal Aid attorney to defend them as strictly mandated by our inspired Justice System.
In New York and elsewhere in Rotting Cities America, it’s cheaper on the taxpayers to walk behind the elephant with a broom and a dust pan than it is to deal directly with the criminals. So, New York puts an official smiley face on the problem, dreams up a fancy title for this comedy routine, spends the taxpayers’ money on crime damage repair and pollutes New Jersey’s waterways with runoff from the harsh chemicals purchased to remove paint from subway cars. Strangely enough, New Yorkers have since put their crime problem in the “Win” column.
Reading about this nonsense from afar, it’s obvious the 5 Boroughs comprise America’s largest mental institution – the inmates rationalize every failure as an enlightened success and Hollywood rushes to make a movie about it. And the amusing part is the 8 million patients within our New York sanitarium are so psychotic they fail to realize how deeply disturbed they truly are.
Paul A'Barge| 5.9.12 @ 7:34PM
Lockout? Luc Besson?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592525/
I don't think so.
Bill Zeiser| 5.9.12 @ 10:30PM
It is his vision, although he did not direct. It was co-written, produced, and billed in the trailers as being "from the mind of."
Stan Redmond| 5.9.12 @ 8:04PM
In 2079 I can only imagine what crime these hardened convicts commited.
---Defacing the Obama Dollar Bill
---Cooking with transfats
---Smoking tobacco products
---Allowing a salt shaker to fall in to the hands of a child under the age of 26
---Failure to purchase mandatory Obamacare
---Failure to pray 5 times per day
POST American| 5.9.12 @ 11:16PM
-----Great piece!
NOW, let's get on the Crimes that RATE!
Stepping over the John Wheeler
MURDER MEMORY HOLE
--and onto
Breitbart's unnaturally on Q,
'natural' death
----the 'disappearance' of the substance
of the Obama tapes
-------the week ago DEATH of Breitbart's
coroner ---from poisoning
-----------the days ago 'disappearance'
of the ONLY witness to Breitbart's death.
MAYBE --starting-- to SERVE TRUTH
is -----a GOOD THING afterall?
'MAY -----BEE'?
Albert Constantine Jr.| 5.10.12 @ 8:00AM
Every day I go to work and see the John Wheeler homicide poster on the wall. Not solved, but not forgotten.
Renee| 5.11.12 @ 11:45AM
TLP right on!!!
Some people just can't handle the truth especially when told in such a direct manner.