The point is there shouldn’t need to be a dedicated DOJ grant for this, it should be something departments across the country include in their academies and on an ongoing basis.

> The bill also directs DOJ to make grants to states for costs associated with providing the training to law enforcement officers or mental health professionals.

Oh you mean the bill that gives them more money.

Or we could not and look at things how they actually are.

Probably because the people committing crimes like avoiding paying tolls, parking illegally, and hiding their license plate are doing so while still owning cars.

Shelters are temporary, holdover solutions until a person can be housed. Permanent supportive housing is the permanent, end goal solution.

Supportive housing developments are not homeless shelters.

That link isn’t even about Breaking Ground to begin with.

>In essence, supportive housing is rent-stabilized, affordable housing, with voluntary, on-site services designed for formerly homeless tenants. Proponents of the model believe residents should be persuaded, not forced, to accept social services.

>“This is not an institution,” said Brenda Rosen, the president and chief executive of Breaking Ground, the developer of 90 Sands. “This is an apartment building with a lease and a key.”

>There are several public agencies involved in supportive housing and units can have different criteria, but qualified applicants generally have serious mental illness, substance abuse issues or both. Even so, supportive housing is less expensive than operating temporary shelters, said Eric Rosenbaum, the president and chief executive of Project Renewal, a homeless services group. It cost Project Renewal almost $52,000 last year to keep a single adult in a shelter, but only about $26,000 for an individual in supportive housing, he said.

> Over 98 percent of the nonprofit’s supportive housing tenants were still living in their apartment after one year, Ms. Rosen said. And at two of their older supportive housing projects — former hotels in Manhattan converted in the 1990s — the average length of tenancy is over 12 years.

Was that one of the same polls that showed Zeldin winning?

75% of city residents were not polled on that, what are you even talking about?

That’s also not true considering, again, he barely won the primary.

Adams barely won the primary though and the alternative in the general was Curtis Sliwa.

Even if the vast majority of people who live in the city aren’t on Reddit, one would think that the subreddits views would be somewhat representative of that population if it consisted of people who actually live here. And yet here we are.

Probably because that viewpoint is not shared by the vast majority of people who actually live in New York City.

Also wouldn’t have to look too far to find a brigader.

The sub is better when the entire front page isn’t dominated by New York Post crime stories.

There are instances where individual threads should be allowed, like when there’s a different angle involved other than crime such as corruption by a public official. But the single thread definitely helps contain some of the clear brigading that happens overall.

Pretrial detention isn’t punishment for a crime considering people are innocent until proven guilty. No one is ignoring hate crimes if a person isn’t held pretrial.

Most of the members of the senate are from outside of Manhattan. It doesn’t take much to scaremonger enough for people to turn against a policy that makes sense, which is why we’re even having a conversation about Zeldin potentially winning in the first place.

There’s no shot that Zeldin supports congestion pricing and we know how republicans feel general about New York City and public services. It would be an extremely rough four years.

Do you actually think it’s as easy to get to Rikers as it is to get to Astoria?

Seems like the simple answer here is no, you can’t answer it because answering the question makes your point moot.

Can you answer it?

Rikers is not a single jail facility. The proximity to the rest of the city, as well as an inability for families and legal staff to easily visit their loved ones and clients is as big an issue as anything else.

How do you close Rikers by building new facilities on Rikers thus keeping Rikers open?

It seems like the judge really needs to explain themself.

I’m on the train or bus 7 days a week and I’ve never had a doorman or private security. But please, continue to make assumptions about people you know nothing about.

Safety and crime are top of mind because tabloid journalists push a narrative of the city being out of control, which only perpetuates fear of safety and crime.

In actuality, if you go outside or actually live in the city, it’s extremely unlikely you’ll be a victim of a random crime. If you ride the subway, it’s extremely unlikely you’ll encounter a situation where your life is in danger. But if every story you read in the paper is about crime, you’re going to think the world is falling apart.