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Ah, the Big Apple. La Gran Manzana. La Grosse Pomme. Der große Apfel. The city that never sleeps.
When you think of New York City you think of the restaurants, [many of which have gone out of business due to the pandemic]. You think of the elaborate subway system where rats are the size of Peter Cottontail and outnumber humans.
Now when you think of New York, you think of the violent crime and mental illness issues that have spilled out onto the streets. From subway attacks to shootings, crime is rising like an East River floater five days dead, after having gone years of record declines.
Just last Thursday, a 40-year-old woman was pushed onto the subway tracks in the 14th Street Union Square station as a train was about to pull in. Police said she landed between the rails and a row-bed and escaped with only minor injuries. The suspect, not the brightest bulb on the Christmas tree, was immediately arrested by police who still had jobs with the Manhattan Transit Police.
The day prior to the subway pushing, a man was shoved onto the tracks of the 42nd Street-Bryant Park station. The park is famous as a drug distribution center, where the "pharmacists" aren't licensed, and the drugs aren't legal. The perpetrator was a panhandler [aka an odiferous homeless person] who became upset when the man did not want to give him any of his hard-earned money. Fortunately, the man was able to get back up onto the platform and was not hurt. The panhandler/suspect was arrested and provided with a place to stay, three meals a day, and a stern finger-wagging.
An actor was attacked on an Upper West Side subway station on Tuesday and suffered a fractured orbital around his eye that required surgery--his name is Alex Weisman, an original cast member of Broadway's "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child."
If it can happen to Alex, it can happen to regular people like you and me.
Sarah Feinberg, NYC Transit interim president said of the series of attacks at a news conference: “It’s not fair to the people who are using this system. It’s not fair to the woman who experienced this today. We have a crisis in this city, and it absolutely has to be addressed.”
Like it was addressed when Rudy Giuliani was the city's mayor. Crime took a long holiday until recently.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has blamed the latest crime surge in part on business and school closures related to the coronavirus pandemic rather than his gross incompetence.
“A lot of things we depend on to keep people safe and stable weren’t there,” de Blasio said Tuesday. He is also hoping to reduce the number of people known as police who help keep the city safe because of his incompetence.
If reducing the police force helps reduce crime, then perhaps unprotected heterosexual intercourse can help reduce pregnancies.
The violence hasn't been this prevalent since the city's crack problem in the 80's [prior to Giuliani serving as mayor of New York from 1994 to 2001]. Giuliani was instrumental in assuaging the crack/crime problem and Mike Bloomberg, who was NYC Mayor after Rudy, [2002 to 2013] also kept crime at bay, but would have likely sucked as POTUS.
Citywide, shootings have nearly doubled -- from 698 in 2019 to 1,359 this year as of Nov. 15, according to NYPD data.
Shooting victims have more than doubled, from 828 during all of 2019 to 1,667 this year through Nov. 15. There have been 405 homicide victims so far this year, compared to 295 last year.
Police union heads blame elected officials for the rise in crime. The Police Benevolent Association and the Sergeants Benevolent Association have blasted local politicians and their leftist policies that in effect, handicap cops on the beat and is an open invitation to thugs.
The unions cite slashed police budgets, bail reform that puts scumbags back on the street, and a new program that requires social workers armed with words like, "I hear you," and "Uh huh," as well as EMTs, instead of cops, to respond to 911 mental health calls. I say why not have Bill de Blasio respond personally to those calls to test the efficacy of his plan.
Can you imagine a social worker trying to talk down a guy with a flamethrower on top of a city bus shooting flames at the sky?
On Wednesday, a Brooklyn rapper surrendered to police after a video of him blasting a flamethrower into the night sky while atop a city bus went viral. The incident occurred on Nov. 8th in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn.
No one was injured, but 25 passengers on board were transferred to another bus.
A pair of parolees with multiple arrests allegedly broke into a Queens home on Tuesday and held a family hostage during an hours-long standoff with police. Had a social worker been there, perhaps the outcome would have been different.
No one was injured, but 25 passengers on board were transferred to another bus.
A pair of parolees with multiple arrests allegedly broke into a Queens home on Tuesday and held a family hostage during an hours-long standoff with police. Had a social worker been there, perhaps the outcome would have been different.
According to the US Postal Service over 300,000 people have fled the city and you can't blame them. Calcutta is a safer city in which to live.
Anyone who remains in New York City and votes for Bill de Blasio for a second term, deserves what they get.
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