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The Assault on ‘Broken Windows’ Policing

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by YankeeFan, Dec 19, 2014.

  1. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    He doesntw think police should be choking people like Eric Garner to death. The police think they should. Hence the differences
     
  2. heyabbott

    heyabbott Well-Known Member

    Why should the guy who was accused of raping the little girl next door get more rights than the cop accused of beating an alleged rapist?
     
  3. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    Last edited: Dec 20, 2014
  4. BDC99

    BDC99 Well-Known Member

  5. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

  6. BDC99

    BDC99 Well-Known Member

    Well, that'll do it. Guess I have my answer on the de Blasio anger. From the link Boom posted.

    De Blasio revealed in an ABC News interview earlier this month that he and First Lady Chirlane McCray had instructed their biracial son, Dante, about the “dangers” that police pose.
     
  7. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

  8. BDC99

    BDC99 Well-Known Member

    Thanks. Still waiting to find out is that link Big Circus posted is legit. Don't think so. Sure hope not. That's a hell of a statement.
     
  9. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    But the scene outside Woodhull Hospital wasn't entirely supportive. "You're a bunch of killers," a passerby told cops standing sentry there, according to one police source. And short distance from the crime scene -- where a crowd was backed up by the police tape -- a few members of the crowd repeated "fuck the cops" within earshot of a Daily Beast reporter.

    One 30-year-old local who gave his first name only as Carlos, didn’t hear the gunfire but saw the hysteria and walked to the police tape.

    And he couldn’t believe his eyes or ears. He didn’t see shock or sorrow but glee and jubilation.

    “A lot of people were clapping and laughing,” he said.

    “Some were saying, ‘They deserved it,’ and another was shouting at the cops, ‘Serves them right because you mistreat people!’” he said.

    http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...er-in-brooklyn.html?via=mobile&source=twitter
     
  10. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    As individuals, we all have the same constitutional rights when accused of a crime.
     
  11. britwrit

    britwrit Well-Known Member

    Eh. I think the NYPD is going to have to learn to live with the occasional wishy-washy, hand-wringing statement from De Blasio. This isn't 1990 and he doesn't need Staten Island to get reelected.

    For them (the one highly paid unionized work force the Post loves) it's better him than someone far to the left of him. Or better the Bill De Blasio of right now than one who's learned he can get a poll boost from slapping them down a little.
     
  12. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    De Blasio isn't getting any poll boosts from any of this. He hasn't had a very good year without the Eric Garner thing, which is why his approvals have been down ever since the "new mayor" optimism. Since then, he's looked intentionally polarizing, inefectual and often clueless to most people. The Post and Daily News are exaggerations but they reflect the general temperature of the city.

    The cops got a cause celebre with these murders, and in the court of public opinion De Blasio will suffer some more from this. He'd be better off if he had built up some good will. But he has a knack for looking like a pandering weasel, and he compounds it all with PR gaffe after PR gaffe. His polls weren't all that good to begin with -- to the extent that anyone had even woken up to the fact that he was mayor yet (although everyone knows it now). He's going to have less than 50 percent approvals and high disapprovals, with the exception of blacks in the next set of polls that come out. That isn't a way to run New York, and it's not really a formula for a successful mayorality.
     
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