tom states: "The city [NYC] just paid sex workers $5m.
DonDiego googled this assertion and discovered that such payments are, in fact, an annual expenditure. Ref: New York Post
Does Tom know if there is any, . . . umm, . . . "non-contact way" that poor old DonDiego can get in on these payments.
With a declining population why did diblasio hire 32,000 more staff? Why did he hire his wife to spend $1b on a mental health program that nobody knows what they do?
There are 1,500 teachers in "rubber rooms" awaiting disciplinary hearings that take years to complete.
Keeping people in payroll With benefits for not working s not an efficient use of money.
For example a transit worker makes $75k With salary & benefits, a teacher makes $100k
Billions are wasted with no results, but pj solution is to spend more
Regarding - "PJ solution" - I dont live in NY or serve in its legislature or executive branches. I thought that was a well established fact. I'll let the taxpayers and their elected leaders decide how to run their state.
"Wasting billions" is the definition of sending checks to people who DID NOT lose their job...you know, like you. Why should you get a check, Tom? Maybe we can start there before we start defunding the police like you are advocating.
Since the government's actions has caused us to lose 30% of our income the $2,400 has been a help
Show me where I said defund the police. Since deblasio & the city council are in favor of it, diblasio should give up his 20 person protective detail & the council should give up theirs. Diblasio should also give up the 50+ cops who are providing 24 hour protection to his blm graffiti scattered around the city. They could then be assigned to protecting the citizens.
76 people shot this past week, not a single one by a cop.
If there is no or little penalty for robbing, burning, looting, and damaging property owned by others, then we are assured of getting more robbing, burning, looting, and damaging property owned by others. Social workers urging these criminals not to be criminals won't help. Every building burned is a permanent loss of wealth which will never be regained. "Progressives" will argue that insurance companies pay to rebuild, as if that is "magic money" that somehow doesn't come out of someone's pocked. I've read that many of the businesses on north avenue near my friend's Chicago apartment are likely now uninsurable. Possibly a radical and positive change in the mayor's laissez faire attitude on criminality can change this, but insurance companies are going to run away from many Chicago neighborhoods for years.
Chiago doesn't have the monopoly to cities who are allowing unpenalized criminality. Let's not forget about Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, New York, St. Louis, and the list goes on.
Originally posted by: Boilerman
If there is no or little penalty for robbing, burning, looting, and damaging property owned by others, then we are assured of getting more robbing, burning, looting, and damaging property owned by others. Social workers urging these criminals not to be criminals won't help. Every building burned is a permanent loss of wealth which will never be regained. "Progressives" will argue that insurance companies pay to rebuild, as if that is "magic money" that somehow doesn't come out of someone's pocked. I've read that many of the businesses on north avenue near my friend's Chicago apartment are likely now uninsurable. Possibly a radical and positive change in the mayor's laissez faire attitude on criminality can change this, but insurance companies are going to run away from many Chicago neighborhoods for years.
Chiago doesn't have the monopoly to cities who are allowing unpenalized criminality. Let's not forget about Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, New York, St. Louis, and the list goes on.
What news are you watching where looters in Chicago are not being arrested?
Granted, they're not being executed by the police which is what you were advocating before. I think thats what started the riots in the first place.
Foxx has dismissed 25,000 or 29% of felonies. That is 35% more than her predecessor. She has also dismissed most of the misdemeanors.
The problem is the lack of interest in prosecuting.
Originally posted by: tom
Foxx has dismissed 25,000 or 29% of felonies. That is 35% more than her predecessor. She has also dismissed most of the misdemeanors.
The problem is the lack of interest in prosecuting.
Funny - William Barr does the same thing with people who sabotage our Democracy. And our nation as a whole does the same thing with cops who shoot black people in the back. I cant seem to find a thread from you anywhere demanding we execute these people with death squads.
Last time I checked courts are closed or severly limited with the cases they are hearing due to the pandemic. There is a flood of serious offenders who take priority over those who break windows and engage in looting. Thats not an embrace of those activities - its just a matter of prioritizing resources. And since you are dead set on cutting down the number of public employees you should explain how to process these people with fewer resources.
AG Barr declined to prosecute 25,000 people?
He is going after the people who tried to undermine our democracy. He has just indicted the FBI attorney who falsified the FISA warrants. More to come.
How many black people had been shot in the back by the police. I bet it is a lot less than the 72 people shot last week in NYC.
The 25,000 people she declined to prosecute were from the first 3 years in office. All were from prior to the virus.
She has declined to prosecute most people arrested during the riots using the courts as an excuse. But this just provides more incentive to plot.
With the democrats there is always an excuse for bad behavior.
Well, Tom, since you advocate decimating the public work force out of some genius ideological reason you have to explain how to process and incarcerate all those perps with fewer resoruces and less money.
I'll wait while you do the math.
