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I realize the cable news outlets need to keep selling ads and fill air time, but Showalter speaks a lot of truth.

 

Daily News editorial:

No one, not even the NYPD’s harshest critics, seriously disputes that broken-windows policing has been key to making New York the safest big city in America.

But prevailing wisdom among many elected officials now holds that, in enforcing so-called quality-of-life laws, the NYPD arrests too many people, sends too many to jail and slaps too many with summonses — while needlessly and unfairly targeting minorities with life-damaging consequence.

Every one of those assertions is blatantly and provably false. In fact, they turn the world exactly on its head in pursuit of an agenda that threatens to reverse a quarter-century of success in driving crime to record low levels.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton on Thursday gave New York a vital accounting of the NYPD’s broken-windows enforcement. His by-the-numbers reckoning documents that cops are arresting a record-low volume of New Yorkers, putting a dramatically reduced cadre behind bars and issuing criminal summonses at a dropping rate.

Still more, Bratton demonstrated that far from “targeting” minorities, the NYPD has largely concentrated enforcement in neighborhoods that have both the highest crime statistics and the highest frequency of calls for help.

Cumulatively, the facts assembled by Bratton establish that all-too-common descriptions of the NYPD as a repressive, racially discriminatory army are ideologically driven libels.

Editorial: Bratton’s arresting broken-windows policing facts - NY Daily News

 

I'm going to put my money on "not exclusively":

It is nonetheless hard to know whether Gray’s problems were exclusively borne of lead poisoning or were the result of other socioeconomic factors as well. From birth, his was a life of intractable poverty that would have been challenging to overcome.

Freddie Gray’s life a study on the effects of lead paint on poor blacks - The Washington Post

 

WBAL caught up with the second prisoner:

on.msnbc.com/1FBjRvx

 

I'm confused by this. Is the Daily News saying that the neighborhoods it concentrates on are largely white?

 

No. It's saying it's not based on race. It's based on crime.

 

I'm pretty sure Ace decided a long time ago that he doesn't believe anything you have or will post. I'm sure the editorial writer has an agenda.

 

Get your bets in now as to who's lying - Allen or the police. Because someone is.

I know who my money is on.

 

State's Attorney speaking now. Charges are going to be brought.

Going through the timeline now, with the names of the cops. Have they been publicly identified previously?

 

You say potato, I say smallpotato.

 

Of course editorial writers never have an agenda.

 

Was just going to post that. She called it "homicide." This will not end well.