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Turbulent_Link1738 t1_iwlz36v wrote

They tried to go on strike this week and the DA threatened them with termination. Certain classes of city works are barred from protest.

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mowotlarx t1_iwm2f2h wrote

Thanks to the Taylor Law all public employees in this state are barred from striking. Which is a real shame for almost all public workers. I'll exclude NYPD and Department of Corrections because we've allowed them to get away with a work stoppage for years.

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kanooker OP t1_iwm39au wrote

>I'll exclude NYPD and Department of Corrections because we've allowed them to get away with a work stoppage for years.

That's exactly how they veto reform, by letting crime go up and blame reform.

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parkslopeymcamanager t1_iwm5hv3 wrote

Somebody posted here yesterday that cops went on strike in 2014 but crime went down anyway. Now people are saying they're on strike and crime is up. I can't wrap my head around all these crazy theories!

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kanooker OP t1_iwm5s21 wrote

Ok well they have an opinion and I have proof out of Chicago. I'm not a defunder like most people aren't.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-met-chicago-violence-2016-aclu-effect-20180315-story.html

Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/CF6Aa

Look at the arrest rates https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FZAyXkEWAAANtKY?format=jpg&name=medium

And the murder numbers

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfcowitXkAE_IC5?format=png&name=small

Same thing in 2020

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-murder-spike-of-2020-when-police-pull-back-11626969547

https://archive.ph/x7rfc

This is what police do to fight reform

>The officers’ colleagues responded by pulling back on the job, doing only the bare minimum in the following weeks. In the resulting void, crews seized new drug corners and settled old scores. Homicides surged to record levels and case-closure rates plunged. “The police stopped doing their jobs, and let people fuck up other people,” Carl Stokes, a former Democratic city councilor in Baltimore, told me last year. “Period. End of story.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/09/how-stop-police-pullback/615730/

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parkslopeymcamanager t1_iwmcgvh wrote

You realize the arrest rates declined because of a change of political environment and legalization of marijuana and other low level stuff? Or did you think you were going to get away with posting a pretty little chart as if it made some kind of point?

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kanooker OP t1_iwmcrzx wrote

Lmao changes in political climate don't you mean hurt fealings? Yeah good excuse bruh.

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parkslopeymcamanager t1_iwmj8kf wrote

Where in the world are you talking about? You've heard every big city politician and district attorney use the word decriminalization. What do you think that means?

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kanooker OP t1_iwmjpbp wrote

I think I showed you they aren't doing their jobs. It's their job to arrest people. They aren't arresting people for major crimes, not just the shop lifting you're talking about. But this is all about blaming Democrats so you'll find a way. Notice I'm blaming cops. Who don't have to be part of any party.

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parkslopeymcamanager t1_iwmll6f wrote

You're clinging so hard to your beliefs that you refuse to consider a possibility you are interpreting data wrong. If you want to isolate the index crime arrest rate going down since 2001, the statistic is meaningless without comparing it to the decline of actual reported index crimes in the same city during the same 20-year period.

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kanooker OP t1_iwmlq6s wrote

Who reports crime clown face?

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parkslopeymcamanager t1_iwmqfdw wrote

So you're going to cite data, until it doesn't agree with you, then it's a conspiracy lollllll

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parkslopeymcamanager t1_iwmqwct wrote

I can just picture your neckbeard twitching in front of your MacBook furiously typing away thinking you just banged out a sick burn.

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kanooker OP t1_iwmr3of wrote

haha, nah def not that clown or should I say real estate agent, or salesperson, or broker? Clown.....

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