Right... so he was lying in January but telling the truth now?

If subway crime has been up 40% this year why wait until October to bother adding cops if adding cops is your plan?

Why say you are adding cops in January and then not do it for 10 months?

Either he is grossly incompetent or he's a liar who doesn't believe what he says.

To paraphrase Robert Deniro in Casino. Either he's on thr take or stupid. Either way, he can't work here.

Maybe there was nothing there. 🤷🏿

Exactly. You don't organize a protest on that timeliness. There will be GLOBAL protests

To your point: Sometimes the accusation is more powerful than the proof. LMK if this ever gets sorted out but (abd maybe this is well earn cynicism) but when reporters are "just asking questions" and don't actually uncover anything... I often think it's because they looked and there was nothing there but they were committed to the article so they hide in vagaries.

I'll readdress my position on this if and when so.eone has an actually allegation.

But grifters gonna grift. Any time you have large sums of cash, someone is going to try to turn this to an advantage.

But also people suck at managing money.

I'm focused on the message and the movement.

They've been increasing cops all year with little result.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/06/nyregion/nypd-subway-patrol.html

Come to think of it... Have I ever seen a police car legally parked?

The video was released in thr middle of the day on a Friday. Protests will be organized. I'm positive of that.

Yeah. They LOVE it when young black fathers are beaten to death in the street.

You're. A. Piece. Of. FiFYI.

Fyi.

Here is a Pro tip. When people want to fudge the numbers you often see over semantic statements like this.

In this case, they are telling you crime is DOWN 16% over the numbers over October...

Why October? Why not year over year which is USUALLY how we measure crime.

And for good reason. Less people are out and about in January over October. So less people usually equals less crime...

But WHY OCTOBER?

This is why.

https://nypost.com/2022/10/11/nyc-subway-murders-jump-to-highest-levels-in-25-years-data/amp/

https://nypost.com/2022/10/11/nyc-subway-murders-jump-to-highest-levels-in-25-years-data/amp/

From the article

>... if you compare the numbers to last year, crime in the transit system is up by more than 40%. The thing driving the numbers is larceny, which usually means someone's phone or wallet was stolen from their bag or off a seat, sometimes it's when people doze off.

So transit crime is UP 40% for the year.

>Robberies are also up by about 34%, Felony Assault is up by about 17%. If you compare those to last year when there were still a million fewer riders.

So the month they chose to compare to is the month with the with the MOST murders in 25 years...

Funny how the "reporter" didn't bother to check.

This is Department of Propaganda type shit.

Lol. Really massaging those stats huh, lol? If you ignore everywhere New Yorkers live, eat, work, and spend time... crime is down! Lol. Adams and Hocul going for the participating trophies.

EXACTLY.

Cops don't prevent crime they respond to it. And Increasing the number of cops only increases the number of people responding to the crime.

It sounds like we agree and backed ourselves into an argument .

I know you can. I doubt he does.

Correct. There are family shelters. I took this from my read of the sentence. "Has one child." I could be wrong but I feel like if he lived in the family shelter system with his child the sentence "Duffie’s defense attorney told the court he lives in a shelter and has a child." Doesn't to the job.

I admit. I don't know. But this doesn't feel like he had custody. I feel like at the very least thst would have come up

BECAUSE COPS ARE LIARS AND USE FEAR TO CONVINCE YOU TO GIVE THEM POWER OVER YOU.

how is this a question?

I mean... when you're running the largest, safest, richest, most successful city into the ground at the speed of light... you tend to have to invent your good news

Really? Number of police on the street is up. And so is crime. So isn't that LITERALLY the NYPD not doing their job?

Or is preventing crime not their job?

I doubt he has custody if he's living in the shelter system

Basically it's very powerful acid.

Which stage of grief is this?

This feels like we are moving out of bargaining and into acceptance.

Oh. There is on consequences to theft anymore? Interesting.

Wait. No. Not interesting.... what's the word I'm looking for? Of right... Bullshit.

Adams has been increasing the number of officers on the street and crime keeps going up.

It takes a special kind of stupid to see that and say "More people on the street." Is the answer.

Cops don't prevent crime they respond to it.

The crime numbers would suggest the opposite.

So the options are Sonething that we know doesn't work... or NOTHING.

If you're so unimaginative that those are the only options you see, then maybe you shouldn't be in this conversation.

Yeah. But that's my point. You're looking at opening weekend numbers and assuming those will continue. I have no plans to pay double to buy legal.

I'm sure the legal dispensaries will do fine too.

I can't possibly imagine crossing a river to buy a 70 dollar 8th.

The line is because of the novelty and the tourists. New Yorkers aren't going to tolerate it. I can't imagine paying double so I can buy legally.

Yeah, since adding cops didn't do anything... maybe adding more untrained poorly paid local weirdos should get the job done. 🙄