Make sure to look at the pictures to see just how awful NYC has become
under democrat rule.

'From public overdoses to protests: Why NYers now seem to tolerate just
about everything'

<https://nypost.com/2024/09/14/opinion/people-living-in-nyc-now-seem-to-tolerate-almost-everything/>

'Over Labor Day weekend, New York saw behavior that would have been
unthinkable a decade ago, when I was a New York City Police Department
counterterrorism analyst.

After the terror organization Hamas executed six hostages, including one
American — thousands marched in support of the terrorists.

From behind keffiyehs, they disrupted the Labor Day Parade, flying the
flags of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine and called for more violence against Americans and Jews. And
yet they face no social condemnation.

Protests
6 The seemingly unstoppable pro-Palestinian protests reveal a new
tolerance for a lack of law and disorder unlike anything the city has
ever witnessed, critics claims.
William C Lopez/New York Post
White House spokesman Andrew Bates called this pro-terror spectacle
“especially heinous,” and urged “all Americans to come together and
stand against antisemitism and against the sickening hate and evil that
Hamas represents.”

His appeal echoed that of Mayor Adams, who, in June urged: “Any New
Yorker who stands for peace cannot stand next to those waving Hamas and
Hezbollah flags.”

But now, unlike after Sept. 11, 2001 and the decade that followed, New
Yorkers are not coming together to condemn antisocial behavior — whether
it’s blasting music on city buses, consuming illicit drugs in front of
our children or championing terrorists who butcher innocent Americans.

Explore More
Egypt
Egypt is snubbing the US — so why has Biden come to its rescue?
A new book details the mystery and indifference that still surround the
murder of Emmett Till.
Why the 1955 murder of Emmett Till still remains shrouded in racism and
mystery
Lifeguard sign
Summer may be ending, but water safety is more important than ever
We have given up so much of our control of public spaces over the past
few years, that we paved the way for them to be overrun — even by those
calling for the very destruction of our society.

As a lifelong Upper West Sider, this disintegration in social control in
recent years has been palpable.

Indeed, I was concerned by the disappearance of public trust way before
last October’s rape-massacre of Israelis was brazenly celebrated with
violence against Jews in Times Square.

Drug use
6 A decade ago, such brazen open-air drug uses would never have been
tolerated by Gothamites, according to reports.
Stephen Yang
Like two-thirds of polled New Yorkers, I no longer think my
neighborhood’s safety is excellent or even good — because I’m not
confident my fellow citizens are looking out for me.

Criminologists have long considered social control to be a measure of
citizens’ trust in each other and their willingness to intervene when
they perceive a problem.

Harvard’s Robert Sampson described these as a metric of “collective
efficacy”; associated insights from George Kelling and sociologist James
Q. Wilson led to a focus on quality-of-life policing in the 1990s, which
radically improved American cities’ norms of behavior.

Mayor Adams
6 “Any New Yorker who stands for peace cannot stand next to those waving
Hamas and Hezbollah flags,” declared Mayor Adams said in June.
Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock
The Upper West Side improved radically as I grew up because more laws
against low-level offending were enforced: broken windshield glass
stopped littering Riverside Drive, syringes disappeared from park lawns
and prostitutes vanished from Amsterdam Avenue.

As a community, our “collective efficacy” rose, such that we could
maintain these social norms without constant interventions by the
criminal justice system.

But the political backlash against policing and incarceration that began
around 2014 — and exploded during the #blacklivesmatter protests of 2020
— destroyed New York communities’ collective efficacy. We need formal
control in order to enable informal control.

Without authorized use of force — police, courts and prisons —
individuals become more tentative about trusting others or about the
inherent physical risks in intervening in apparent problems.

Indeed, when my husband recently demanded a woman not smoke crack in a
crowded subway car next to our kids, she did it anyway — and no one
“came together” to stop her.

Sept 11
6 In the period following the September 11th attacks, New Yorkers came
together against urban impunity, reports say.
Tamara Beckwith/New York Post
Central to this hesitance is that New York stopped prosecuting crimes.

Last year, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office arraigned over 63%
fewer cases than a decade prior: that is 62,435 fewer prosecutions. And
whereas Manhattan used to convict almost two-thirds of those offenders,
now less than a third are convicted — despite the overall lower
caseload.

Barely a quarter of misdemeanors, encompassing many street disorder
crimes, now result in convictions. Even more indicative of
quality-of-life abandonment, Manhattan went from 7,500 convictions for
violations and infractions in 2013, to just 47 last year: a conviction
rate drop from 63% to 14%.

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The extreme “Free Palestine” movement has brilliantly exploited our
weakened social norms, adopting tactics — like masking — that
universally undermine trust.

Similarly, chanting barely coded threats to wipe Jews off the map or
drowning out civic life with loud drumming all signal that these
demonstrators don’t care about earning your trust.

Just as more and more New Yorkers don’t care about smoking in your train
car or stealing from your supermarket.

Alvin Bragg
6 The hands-off prosecution policies of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg have made
city chaos even worse, critics believe.

REUTERS
Most illustrative are agitators’ acts of physical intimidation, from
tackling a janitor at Columbia to killing a counter-protestor with a
megaphone-blow.

Appropriating “zones” within public spaces is itself a physical
aggression, intentionally telegraphing risk to anyone who dares exercise
their right to passage across a college campus or across a bridge.

Demonstrators order reporters and passersby not to speak to them, not to
film them, not to ask them any questions about what they believe or what
they are advocating.

Encampments
6 The college encampments reveal an erosion of the ‘collective efficacy’
that made Manhattan so much safer over the past decades.
Getty Images
And this type of disorder will almost inevitably spread beyond the
current protest moment.

New Yorkers, once famous for our confrontational style of conflict
resolution, are meekly tolerating aggression and averting our eyes from
its impact on our communities.

To revive our collective efficacy, we need to amend the policies and
practices that gutted our criminal justice system. And we need to stand
up for the social norms that we miss and make our cities cohesive.

In article <52ebej9ivpdhhis4pjl926fmviql8c4k5f@4ax.com>,
smythlejon2@hotmail.com says...
>
> Make sure to look at the pictures to see just how awful NYC has become
> under democrat rule.
>
> 'From public overdoses to protests: Why NYers now seem to tolerate just
> about everything'
>
> <https://nypost.com/2024/09/14/opinion/people-living-in-nyc-now-seem-to-tolerate-almost-everything/>
>
> 'Over Labor Day weekend, New York saw behavior that would have been
> unthinkable a decade ago, when I was a New York City Police Department
> counterterrorism analyst.
>
> After the terror organization Hamas executed six hostages, including one
> American ? thousands marched in support of the terrorists.
>
> From behind keffiyehs, they disrupted the Labor Day Parade, flying the
> flags of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of
> Palestine and called for more violence against Americans and Jews. And
> yet they face no social condemnation.
>
> Protests
> 6
> The seemingly unstoppable pro-Palestinian protests reveal a new
> tolerance for a lack of law and disorder unlike anything the city has
> ever witnessed, critics claims.
> William C Lopez/New York Post
> White House spokesman Andrew Bates called this pro-terror spectacle
> ?especially heinous,? and urged ?all Americans to come together and
> stand against antisemitism and against the sickening hate and evil that
> Hamas represents.?
>
> His appeal echoed that of Mayor Adams, who, in June urged: ?Any New
> Yorker who stands for peace cannot stand next to those waving Hamas and
> Hezbollah flags.?
>
> But now, unlike after Sept. 11, 2001 and the decade that followed, New
> Yorkers are not coming together to condemn antisocial behavior ? whether
> it?s blasting music on city buses, consuming illicit drugs in front of
> our children or championing terrorists who butcher innocent Americans.
>
> Explore More
> Egypt
> Egypt is snubbing the US ? so why has Biden come to its rescue?
> A new book details the mystery and indifference that still surround the
> murder of Emmett Till.
> Why the 1955 murder of Emmett Till still remains shrouded in racism and
> mystery
> Lifeguard sign
> Summer may be ending, but water safety is more important than ever
> We have given up so much of our control of public spaces over the past
> few years, that we paved the way for them to be overrun ? even by those
> calling for the very destruction of our society.
>
> As a lifelong Upper West Sider, this disintegration in social control in
> recent years has been palpable.
>
> Indeed, I was concerned by the disappearance of public trust way before
> last October?s rape-massacre of Israelis was brazenly celebrated with
> violence against Jews in Times Square.
>
> Drug use
> 6
> A decade ago, such brazen open-air drug uses would never have been
> tolerated by Gothamites, according to reports.
> Stephen Yang
> Like two-thirds of polled New Yorkers, I no longer think my
> neighborhood?s safety is excellent or even good ? because I?m not
> confident my fellow citizens are looking out for me.
>
> Criminologists have long considered social control to be a measure of
> citizens? trust in each other and their willingness to intervene when
> they perceive a problem.
>
> Harvard?s Robert Sampson described these as a metric of ?collective
> efficacy?; associated insights from George Kelling and sociologist James
> Q. Wilson led to a focus on quality-of-life policing in the 1990s, which
> radically improved American cities? norms of behavior.
>
> Mayor Adams
> 6
> ?Any New Yorker who stands for peace cannot stand next to those waving
> Hamas and Hezbollah flags,? declared Mayor Adams said in June.
> Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock
> The Upper West Side improved radically as I grew up because more laws
> against low-level offending were enforced: broken windshield glass
> stopped littering Riverside Drive, syringes disappeared from park lawns
> and prostitutes vanished from Amsterdam Avenue.
>
> As a community, our ?collective efficacy? rose, such that we could
> maintain these social norms without constant interventions by the
> criminal justice system.
>
> But the political backlash against policing and incarceration that began
> around 2014 ? and exploded during the #blacklivesmatter protests of 2020
> ? destroyed New York communities? collective efficacy. We need formal
> control in order to enable informal control.
>
> Without authorized use of force ? police, courts and prisons ?
> individuals become more tentative about trusting others or about the
> inherent physical risks in intervening in apparent problems.
>
> Indeed, when my husband recently demanded a woman not smoke crack in a
> crowded subway car next to our kids, she did it anyway ? and no one
> ?came together? to stop her.
>
> Sept 11
> 6
> In the period following the September 11th attacks, New Yorkers came
> together against urban impunity, reports say.
> Tamara Beckwith/New York Post
> Central to this hesitance is that New York stopped prosecuting crimes.
>
> Last year, the Manhattan District Attorney?s office arraigned over 63%
> fewer cases than a decade prior: that is 62,435 fewer prosecutions. And
> whereas Manhattan used to convict almost two-thirds of those offenders,
> now less than a third are convicted ? despite the overall lower
> caseload.
>
> Barely a quarter of misdemeanors, encompassing many street disorder
> crimes, now result in convictions. Even more indicative of
> quality-of-life abandonment, Manhattan went from 7,500 convictions for
> violations and infractions in 2013, to just 47 last year: a conviction
> rate drop from 63% to 14%.
>
> Start your day with all you need to know
> Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.
>
> Enter your email address
> By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
>
> The extreme ?Free Palestine? movement has brilliantly exploited our
> weakened social norms, adopting tactics ? like masking ? that
> universally undermine trust.
>
> Similarly, chanting barely coded threats to wipe Jews off the map or
> drowning out civic life with loud drumming all signal that these
> demonstrators don?t care about earning your trust.
>
> Just as more and more New Yorkers don?t care about smoking in your train
> car or stealing from your supermarket.
>
> Alvin Bragg
> 6
> The hands-off prosecution policies of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg have made
> city chaos even worse, critics believe.
>
> REUTERS
> Most illustrative are agitators? acts of physical intimidation, from
> tackling a janitor at Columbia to killing a counter-protestor with a
> megaphone-blow.
>
> Appropriating ?zones? within public spaces is itself a physical
> aggression, intentionally telegraphing risk to anyone who dares exercise
> their right to passage across a college campus or across a bridge.
>
> Demonstrators order reporters and passersby not to speak to them, not to
> film them, not to ask them any questions about what they believe or what
> they are advocating.
>
> Encampments
> 6
> The college encampments reveal an erosion of the ?collective efficacy?
> that made Manhattan so much safer over the past decades.
> Getty Images
> And this type of disorder will almost inevitably spread beyond the
> current protest moment.
>
> New Yorkers, once famous for our confrontational style of conflict
> resolution, are meekly tolerating aggression and averting our eyes from
> its impact on our communities.
>
>
> To revive our collective efficacy, we need to amend the policies and
> practices that gutted our criminal justice system. And we need to stand
> up for the social norms that we miss and make our cities cohesive.

NY has been a shithole state since the days of Mayor Rudy
who fucked the place up royally.It has nothing to do with
the current administration.The NYPost is a lie paper.

--
Signature provided on request.

John Smyth wrote:
> Make sure to look at the pictures to see just how awful NYC has become
> under democrat rule.
>
> 'From public overdoses to protests: Why NYers now seem to tolerate just
> about everything'
>
> <https://nypost.com/2024/09/14/opinion/people-living-in-nyc-now-seem-to-tolerate-almost-everything/>
>
> 'Over Labor Day weekend, New York saw behavior that would have been
> unthinkable a decade ago, when I was a New York City Police Department
> counterterrorism analyst.
>
> After the terror organization Hamas executed six hostages, including one
> American — thousands marched in support of the terrorists.
>
> From behind keffiyehs, they disrupted the Labor Day Parade, flying the
> flags of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of
> Palestine and called for more violence against Americans and Jews. And
> yet they face no social condemnation.
>
> Protests
> 6
> The seemingly unstoppable pro-Palestinian protests reveal a new
> tolerance for a lack of law and disorder unlike anything the city has
> ever witnessed, critics claims.
> William C Lopez/New York Post
> White House spokesman Andrew Bates called this pro-terror spectacle
> “especially heinous,” and urged “all Americans to come together and
> stand against antisemitism and against the sickening hate and evil that
> Hamas represents.”
>
> His appeal echoed that of Mayor Adams, who, in June urged: “Any New
> Yorker who stands for peace cannot stand next to those waving Hamas and
> Hezbollah flags.”
>
> But now, unlike after Sept. 11, 2001 and the decade that followed, New
> Yorkers are not coming together to condemn antisocial behavior — whether
> it’s blasting music on city buses, consuming illicit drugs in front of
> our children or championing terrorists who butcher innocent Americans.
>
> Explore More
> Egypt
> Egypt is snubbing the US — so why has Biden come to its rescue?
> A new book details the mystery and indifference that still surround the
> murder of Emmett Till.
> Why the 1955 murder of Emmett Till still remains shrouded in racism and
> mystery
> Lifeguard sign
> Summer may be ending, but water safety is more important than ever
> We have given up so much of our control of public spaces over the past
> few years, that we paved the way for them to be overrun — even by those
> calling for the very destruction of our society.
>
> As a lifelong Upper West Sider, this disintegration in social control in
> recent years has been palpable.
>
> Indeed, I was concerned by the disappearance of public trust way before
> last October’s rape-massacre of Israelis was brazenly celebrated with
> violence against Jews in Times Square.
>
> Drug use
> 6
> A decade ago, such brazen open-air drug uses would never have been
> tolerated by Gothamites, according to reports.
> Stephen Yang
> Like two-thirds of polled New Yorkers, I no longer think my
> neighborhood’s safety is excellent or even good — because I’m not
> confident my fellow citizens are looking out for me.
>
> Criminologists have long considered social control to be a measure of
> citizens’ trust in each other and their willingness to intervene when
> they perceive a problem.
>
> Harvard’s Robert Sampson described these as a metric of “collective
> efficacy”; associated insights from George Kelling and sociologist James
> Q. Wilson led to a focus on quality-of-life policing in the 1990s, which
> radically improved American cities’ norms of behavior.
>
> Mayor Adams
> 6
> “Any New Yorker who stands for peace cannot stand next to those waving
> Hamas and Hezbollah flags,” declared Mayor Adams said in June.
> Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock
> The Upper West Side improved radically as I grew up because more laws
> against low-level offending were enforced: broken windshield glass
> stopped littering Riverside Drive, syringes disappeared from park lawns
> and prostitutes vanished from Amsterdam Avenue.
>
> As a community, our “collective efficacy” rose, such that we could
> maintain these social norms without constant interventions by the
> criminal justice system.
>
> But the political backlash against policing and incarceration that began
> around 2014 — and exploded during the #blacklivesmatter protests of 2020
> — destroyed New York communities’ collective efficacy. We need formal
> control in order to enable informal control.
>
> Without authorized use of force — police, courts and prisons —
> individuals become more tentative about trusting others or about the
> inherent physical risks in intervening in apparent problems.
>
> Indeed, when my husband recently demanded a woman not smoke crack in a
> crowded subway car next to our kids, she did it anyway — and no one
> “came together” to stop her.
>
> Sept 11
> 6
> In the period following the September 11th attacks, New Yorkers came
> together against urban impunity, reports say.
> Tamara Beckwith/New York Post
> Central to this hesitance is that New York stopped prosecuting crimes.
>
> Last year, the Manhattan District Attorney’s office arraigned over 63%
> fewer cases than a decade prior: that is 62,435 fewer prosecutions. And
> whereas Manhattan used to convict almost two-thirds of those offenders,
> now less than a third are convicted — despite the overall lower
> caseload.
>
> Barely a quarter of misdemeanors, encompassing many street disorder
> crimes, now result in convictions. Even more indicative of
> quality-of-life abandonment, Manhattan went from 7,500 convictions for
> violations and infractions in 2013, to just 47 last year: a conviction
> rate drop from 63% to 14%.
>
> Start your day with all you need to know
> Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.
>
> Enter your email address
> By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
>
> The extreme “Free Palestine” movement has brilliantly exploited our
> weakened social norms, adopting tactics — like masking — that
> universally undermine trust.
>
> Similarly, chanting barely coded threats to wipe Jews off the map or
> drowning out civic life with loud drumming all signal that these
> demonstrators don’t care about earning your trust.
>
> Just as more and more New Yorkers don’t care about smoking in your train
> car or stealing from your supermarket.
>
> Alvin Bragg
> 6
> The hands-off prosecution policies of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg have made
> city chaos even worse, critics believe.
>
> REUTERS
> Most illustrative are agitators’ acts of physical intimidation, from
> tackling a janitor at Columbia to killing a counter-protestor with a
> megaphone-blow.
>
> Appropriating “zones” within public spaces is itself a physical
> aggression, intentionally telegraphing risk to anyone who dares exercise
> their right to passage across a college campus or across a bridge.
>
> Demonstrators order reporters and passersby not to speak to them, not to
> film them, not to ask them any questions about what they believe or what
> they are advocating.
>
> Encampments
> 6
> The college encampments reveal an erosion of the ‘collective efficacy’
> that made Manhattan so much safer over the past decades.
> Getty Images
> And this type of disorder will almost inevitably spread beyond the
> current protest moment.
>
> New Yorkers, once famous for our confrontational style of conflict
> resolution, are meekly tolerating aggression and averting our eyes from
> its impact on our communities.
>
>
> To revive our collective efficacy, we need to amend the policies and
> practices that gutted our criminal justice system. And we need to stand
> up for the social norms that we miss and make our cities cohesive.
>
change your play book for fk sakes ,
every day you go around and around and around

On 2024-09-14, unknown <novalidemail@toss.net> wrote:
> In article <52ebej9ivpdhhis4pjl926fmviql8c4k5f@4ax.com>,
> smythlejon2@hotmail.com says...
>>
>> Make sure to look at the pictures to see just how awful NYC has become
>> under democrat rule.
>>
>> 'From public overdoses to protests: Why NYers now seem to tolerate just
>> about everything'
>>
>> <https://nypost.com/2024/09/14/opinion/people-living-in-nyc-now-seem-to-tolerate-almost-everything/>
>>
>> 'Over Labor Day weekend, New York saw behavior that would have been
>> unthinkable a decade ago, when I was a New York City Police Department
>> counterterrorism analyst.
>> Message-ID: <20240914.114220.19e68b08@remailer.frell.eu.org>
>> After the terror organization Hamas executed six hostages, including one
>> American ? thousands marched in support of the terrorists.
>>
>> From behind keffiyehs, they disrupted the Labor Day Parade, flying the
>> flags of Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of
>> Palestine and called for more violence against Americans and Jews. And
>> yet they face no social condemnation.
>>
>> Protests
>> 6
>> The seemingly unstoppable pro-Palestinian protests reveal a new
>> tolerance for a lack of law and disorder unlike anything the city has
>> ever witnessed, critics claims.
>> William C Lopez/New York Post
>> White House spokesman Andrew Bates called this pro-terror spectacle
>> ?especially heinous,? and urged ?all Americans to come together and
>> stand against antisemitism and against the sickening hate and evil that
>> Hamas represents.?
>>
>> His appeal echoed that of Mayor Adams, who, in June urged: ?Any New
>> Yorker who stands for peace cannot stand next to those waving Hamas and
>> Hezbollah flags.?
>>
>> But now, unlike after Sept. 11, 2001 and the decade that followed, New
>> Yorkers are not coming together to condemn antisocial behavior ? whether
>> it?s blasting music on city buses, consuming illicit drugs in front of
>> our children or championing terrorists who butcher innocent Americans.
>>
>> Explore More
>> Egypt
>> Egypt is snubbing the US ? so why has Biden come to its rescue?
>> A new book details the mystery and indifference that still surround the
>> murder of Emmett Till.
>> Why the 1955 murder of Emmett Till still remains shrouded in racism and
>> mystery
>> Lifeguard sign
>> Summer may be ending, but water safety is more important than ever
>> We have given up so much of our control of public spaces over the past
>> few years, that we paved the way for them to be overrun ? even by those
>> calling for the very destruction of our society.
>>
>> As a lifelong Upper West Sider, this disintegration in social control in
>> recent years has been palpable.
>>
>> Indeed, I was concerned by the disappearance of public trust way before
>> last October?s rape-massacre of Israelis was brazenly celebrated with
>> violence against Jews in Times Square.
>>
>> Drug use
>> 6
>> A decade ago, such brazen open-air drug uses would never have been
>> tolerated by Gothamites, according to reports.
>> Stephen Yang
>> Like two-thirds of polled New Yorkers, I no longer think my
>> neighborhood?s safety is excellent or even good ? because I?m not
>> confident my fellow citizens are looking out for me.
>>
>> Criminologists have long considered social control to be a measure of
>> citizens? trust in each other and their willingness to intervene when
>> they perceive a problem.
>>
>> Harvard?s Robert Sampson described these as a metric of ?collective
>> efficacy?; associated insights from George Kelling and sociologist James
>> Q. Wilson led to a focus on quality-of-life policing in the 1990s, which
>> radically improved American cities? norms of behavior.
>>
>> Mayor Adams
>> 6
>> ?Any New Yorker who stands for peace cannot stand next to those waving
>> Hamas and Hezbollah flags,? declared Mayor Adams said in June.
>> Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock
>> The Upper West Side improved radically as I grew up because more laws
>> against low-level offending were enforced: broken windshield glass
>> stopped littering Riverside Drive, syringes disappeared from park lawns
>> and prostitutes vanished from Amsterdam Avenue.
>>
>> As a community, our ?collective efficacy? rose, such that we could
>> maintain these social norms without constant interventions by the
>> criminal justice system.
>>
>> But the political backlash against policing and incarceration that began
>> around 2014 ? and exploded during the #blacklivesmatter protests of 2020
>> ? destroyed New York communities? collective efficacy. We need formal
>> control in order to enable informal control.
>>
>> Without authorized use of force ? police, courts and prisons ?
>> individuals become more tentative about trusting others or about the
>> inherent physical risks in intervening in apparent problems.
>>
>> Indeed, when my husband recently demanded a woman not smoke crack in a
>> crowded subway car next to our kids, she did it anyway ? and no one
>> ?came together? to stop her.
>>
>> Sept 11
>> 6
>> In the period following the September 11th attacks, New Yorkers came
>> together against urban impunity, reports say.
>> Tamara Beckwith/New York Post
>> Central to this hesitance is that New York stopped prosecuting crimes.
>>
>> Last year, the Manhattan District Attorney?s office arraigned over 63%
>> fewer cases than a decade prior: that is 62,435 fewer prosecutions. And
>> whereas Manhattan used to convict almost two-thirds of those offenders,
>> now less than a third are convicted ? despite the overall lower
>> caseload.
>>
>> Barely a quarter of misdemeanors, encompassing many street disorder
>> crimes, now result in convictions. Even more indicative of
>> quality-of-life abandonment, Manhattan went from 7,500 convictions for
>> violations and infractions in 2013, to just 47 last year: a conviction
>> rate drop from 63% to 14%.
>>
>> Start your day with all you need to know
>> Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.
>>
>> Enter your email address
>> By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.
>>
>> The extreme ?Free Palestine? movement has brilliantly exploited our
>> weakened social norms, adopting tactics ? like masking ? that
>> universally undermine trust.
>>
>> Similarly, chanting barely coded threats to wipe Jews off the map or
>> drowning out civic life with loud drumming all signal that these
>> demonstrators don?t care about earning your trust.
>>
>> Just as more and more New Yorkers don?t care about smoking in your train
>> car or stealing from your supermarket.
>>
>> Alvin Bragg
>> 6
>> The hands-off prosecution policies of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg have made
>> city chaos even worse, critics believe.
>>
>> REUTERS
>> Most illustrative are agitators? acts of physical intimidation, from
>> tackling a janitor at Columbia to killing a counter-protestor with a
>> megaphone-blow.
>>
>> Appropriating ?zones? within public spaces is itself a physical
>> aggression, intentionally telegraphing risk to anyone who dares exercise
>> their right to passage across a college campus or across a bridge.
>>
>> Demonstrators order reporters and passersby not to speak to them, not to
>> film them, not to ask them any questions about what they believe or what
>> they are advocating.
>>
>> Encampments
>> 6
>> The college encampments reveal an erosion of the ?collective efficacy?
>> that made Manhattan so much safer over the past decades.
>> Getty Images
>> And this type of disorder will almost inevitably spread beyond the
>> current protest moment.
>>
>> New Yorkers, once famous for our confrontational style of conflict
>> resolution, are meekly tolerating aggression and averting our eyes from
>> its impact on our communities.
>>
>>
>> To revive our collective efficacy, we need to amend the policies and
>> practices that gutted our criminal justice system. And we need to stand
>> up for the social norms that we miss and make our cities cohesive.
>
> NY has been a shithole state since the days of Mayor Rudy
> who fucked the place up royally.It has nothing to do with
> the current administration.The NYPost is a lie paper.
>
Snit, is that you?
Socking up again?