Who exactly is arguing that guilty violent offenders shouldn’t go to jail?

2019 was before covid and before bail reform. So I’m curious what you think people are burying their head in the sand about. The issue is why has 4 years passed and this guy not been tried yet.

Not much of a dog whistle. More like a trumpet.

It's exactly because I'm looking through a non-political lens that I can say that. Crime in the entire country provably jumped a huge amount during the pandemic and has yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels. But the same bullshit arguments used against progressives to blame them for crime in NYC are not used or even brought up against Republicans in far redder states where crime remains higher than in NY or in their cities.

So please, go on and tell me how political I'm being when this shit only ever matters to your ilk when you can point a finger at someone that leans to the left.

1. Clothes are often helpful. People tend to wear the same outerwear over and over during a particular season. I don't know if you have 20 different coats, and 30 different sweatshirts - maybe you do, NYC has a lot of rich people. It also has a lot of poor ones that don't have the option. I"m going to guess the rapist falls into the latter group.

2. I'm black, and I could not tell you with even 75% certainty that the guy in the unfocused, grainy surveillance video is black, Latino, or something else. I could say he's not white. But what use is that? You'd be happy if the article said dark skinned? Do you realize that describes like 60% of the city? What's your thought process on this? It's sounds like something has hijacked your thinking.

You don't need CCP in Texas any longer to carry concealed. Regardless, that sounds like victim blaming, because even Texas, you need to choose to carry a weapon. It's almost like you're blaming those victims for being raped if they didn't have a CCP.

To reduce rapes in this city/state/country? A tremendous amount of money to fund social investment that would take years to see the results of. So nothing that politicians or most American voters are willing to do.

That tends to happen once the election year is over and the papers aren't highlighting every other crime to ask potential candidates exactly what they're going to do about it.

Interesting idea. I'm sure that there evidence that lax gun regulations are associated with lower rates of forcible rape. Let's compare Texas to NY.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/232563/forcible-rape-rate-in-the-us-by-state/

Holy shit, Texas has nearly twice the per capita forcible rape incidents as liberal gun grabbing NY state. Maybe arming everyone isn't the answer.

Is this a serious question?

There's a picture there - can you tell exactly what his ethnicity is from the surveillance video?

>You realize that white suburbanites make the exact same comment when minorities or low income folks move into their neighborhoods. . .

No they don’t. Instead they repeatedly call the cops on any perceived offense and refuse to speak directly to their neighbors, similar to how some of these “gentrifiers” treat their neighbors of color that may have been in the neighborhood for decades. That’s not everyone, but it’s a significant number. And that’s what OP was complaining about. He never said they weren’t welcome.

But we all know how a lot of redditors get hard at wanting to paint minorities as “the real racists.”

Then you definitely missed his point. I did not read that in his comment at all.

The lack of diversity at public schools in the UWS is by design. There are very overcrowded schools in Harlem, with majority black students that borders the UWS. When DeBlasio’s DoE floated relieving that overcrowded school by redrawing the districts so some of those black students would be zoned for an under capacity UWS school, the very rich parents in the UWS blew a gasket and said some not so very subtle shit about black and Hispanic kids.

The DoE backed off.

The point is that people complain that many of these “gentrifiers” for lack of a better term, aren’t accepting of their new neighbors and aren’t interested in getting to know them.

I feel you completely missed his point.

Just look at the school, period. A lot of families in these diverse areas will not send their kids to the public schools.

Now do the public schools.

Except we have examples of people being charged by the DA’s office with felony assault for shoves.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/01/17/us/new-york-anti-asian-attack/index.html

How that shakes out in court might be different. But clearly a shove with intent has cause a charge of assault.

Physical Injury is defined by the state as “impairment of physical condition or substantial pain.” A slap to the face meets the criteria if you say it caused you substantial pain.

You’ll have to explain exactly what you mean by “criminally inclined.” People are definitely being prosecuted for retail theft. How often and to what degree I don’t readily have that information at my fingertips. If you do, please share it.

Good question.

It’s the NYPD that does the arresting.

Because at that point there is no reason for the accused to not go to trial to see if they can do better with a jury. And because of our fucked up system, that would pretty quickly bring the criminal courts to a halt.

If you get into an argument and someone spits on you, that’s aggravated harassment. You lose your temper and slap the person in the face. That’s Assault.

Do you think you should be in prison for more than a year because of that action?