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drpvn t1_j35tj7d wrote

> 10% of all shooting victims — 10% of all shooting victims in New York City — are under the age of 18.

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manormortal t1_j367vol wrote

One of the scariest things in the world is a group of teenagers.

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stalkingshadow01 t1_j36a0j8 wrote

If stop and frisk would save lives and lower crime, at the cost of inconvenience, should it be brought back?

Are those lives worth it?

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stork38 t1_j36d47j wrote

The result of Cuomo and the legislature's criminal justice "reforms" is more dead kids, and oddly some in this thread are going to claim this is right wing propaganda.

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mowotlarx t1_j36j1uf wrote

So this is their press conference to try to smooth over and justify a grown man pummeling a teen girl on top of her head with his closed fists? Pathetic.

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Status_Fox_1474 t1_j36ni60 wrote

We're cutting more from the youth services budget, aren't we?

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Scham2k t1_j36y1ff wrote

It's still a problem, but the same article also says

>That number was higher in pre-pandemic years, with those under 18 accounting for 27% of robbery arrests in 2019 and 23% of those in 2018, according to the data.

So it's unfortunately back in line with recent history, if you ignore pandemic years.

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marketingguy420 t1_j36y3mu wrote

> Vote for me | give us more money

Copaganda at its finest. Since, very obviously, making public statements does nothing to actually solve this problem, the only reason to do it is to make voting populations scared enough to suck down whatever nonsense comes after, e.g. vote for me or the barbarians will rape and pillage your property or give us unlimited budget (and be nice to us) for tactical apache stealth helicopters or CVS will lock up all the deodorant

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Remarkable_Landscape t1_j373hh6 wrote

hmm yes the triple whammy of the New York Post, unchecked NYPD statistics, and Mayor McSwag claiming there's a reason to give cops more money. This will surely be a good, rational conversation for this subreddit.

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Wise-Guarantee-7165 t1_j374agu wrote

Interesting that this commentary is coming right after an NYPD officer was filmed beating a young teenage girl in the head with his fists over and over. Probably just a crazy coincidence. /s

Also: "That number was higher in pre-pandemic years, with those under 18 accounting for 27% of robbery arrests in 2019 and 23% of those in 201""

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Die-Nacht t1_j37hx50 wrote

That and provide defense for the officer. There will be some hearing or court case on this, maybe years from now, that we won't even hear about, where the officer's defense will use what Adams says as reasoning for his actions.

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Die-Nacht t1_j37jn8h wrote

> “We’re leaving 2022 with crime…trending downward,” Adams said.

> Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell said there was an overall decrease in major crimes during the fourth quarter, as well as during “the current seven and 28 days.”

Really? 4th quarter? I wonder what happened in the 4th quarter of last year? Or more specifically, what ended in the 4th quarter of last year...

When will we learn to stop falling for these?

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Rottimer t1_j37sun2 wrote

> That number was higher in pre-pandemic years, with those under 18 accounting for 27% of robbery arrests in 2019 and 23% of those in 2018, according to the data.

So the number is lower than pre-pandemic, but it’s “spiraling out of control?”

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Rottimer t1_j37th2t wrote

Because it won’t inconvenience him. It won’t make people safer either, he’ll just feel safer knowing cops are “inconveniencing” people he looks at as criminals.

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JaunxPatrol t1_j384s5u wrote

Quite a bit lower than pre-pandemic!

"Youngsters made up about 17% of the 9,942 robbery arrests last year, compared to 13% of those in 2021, according to NYPD data. In 2020, the statistics show minors accounted for about 19% of robbery busts.

That number was higher in pre-pandemic years, with those under 18 accounting for 27% of robbery arrests in 2019 and 23% of those in 2018, according to the data."

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j38g9l9 wrote

10% of 1,524 victims amounts to 150 underage victims.

The Uvalde school shooting in Texas had 19 underage victims. So in NYC, we are having the equivalent of 7x Uvalde shootings in a year when it comes to under-18 victims.

But I bet the media covered the Uvalde shooting more than all of the shootings in NYC combined.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j38gwhf wrote

>What a coincidence!!

It's more than a coincidence, because it's actually a precursor relationship, if you care about root causes for a minute.

Regardless of the officer lacking training, if the girls weren't fighting in the first place, the whole incident would've never happened.

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mowotlarx t1_j38h9dm wrote

Ah yes, it's the teenage girls fault that a shitty cop with a track record of abuse decided to beat them over their heads with his fist when trying to break up a fight. Keep moving the goal posts and check back after we pay out another 6 figures in settlements because of that idiot cop.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j38i6qc wrote

There were many factors that contributed to what happened there.

Some people only look at the factors contributed by the cop.

Other people only look at the factors contributed by girl.

It's hard to see the root causes holistically while being blinded by ideology, but I bet it's more comfortable than looking at the reality objectively.

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machined_learning t1_j38phe3 wrote

I understand the NYPost having a trashy clickbait title, but why does this post have one? The article itself walks back the title by saying that teen violence was significantly worse a couple of years ago and is actually trending positively coming out of 2022.

Downvoting for misleading title and fearmongering.

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FartSniffingDog t1_j38rg1j wrote

Yes. That was a tragedy. Did the cops ever arrest anyone for it? No. They didn’t even find the body after the shooting, much less the perps. The body was discovered the next morning by the woman who lived at the house where he hid from the bullets behind a van.

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mowotlarx t1_j38s143 wrote

The "she ran into my fist" defence probably won't work for him. Objectively, NYPD are supposed to be trained in de-escalation, specifically tactics that can't kill people (head punches kill people, btw?) to subdue someone. This guy didn't do that. He has a history of abuse and complaints. There is no both sides to this.

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FartSniffingDog t1_j38zo46 wrote

Hmm. Wonder who could do something about that. Maybe the police and their cop mayor.

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FartSniffingDog t1_j395lfa wrote

The concept of crime being “out of control” is ridiculous. If it was out of control, you’d see massive looting and rioting all over the city, with police being targeted by civilians and not feeling safe. Instead, any time a police officer suffers a scratch, the entire department freaks out.

Crime does not just occur naturally due to a lack of active or effective policing. People make choices to commit crime. The police are not here to prevent crime. They are here to maintain the system and the status quo.

But you are correct. I was speaking hyperbolically. The NYPD does prevent some crime. They also prevent many people from simply living their lives, they prevent traffic from moving smoothly, they prevent other departments from being fully funded, and they prevent people from parking in their own neighborhoods by abusing their placards + issuing out placards to friends and family. Just to name a few of their prevention policies.

Bottom line: the answer is community prevention. Police should be required to live in the precinct they serve in. And, it should be service. I spent 12 years active duty in the Army. I know how to follow rules and regulations. Cops, on the other hand, don’t think the law applies to them. They should ride public transportation and not abuse their placards to park illegally all over the city. They should be punished for breaking rules. There should be more internal affairs power and civilian oversight on investigations into the many dirty cops. Also, splitting the transit police and parking/vehicle enforcement away from the NYPD proper would fix many problems, as then the NYPD can’t just file fake 311 reports when crime is noticed.

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Dichotopotamus t1_j39biay wrote

Funny how NYC subreddit, filled with people not from NYC who berate the NY Post... constantly make topics from NY Post articles. Maybe you transients finally realize that the NY Post is the most direct and truthful newspaper in America.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j39gpnk wrote

I mostly agree with everything you wrote.

And I wanted to call out that this is quite a courageous thing to bring up in this sub:

>Crime does not just occur naturally due to a lack of active or effective policing. People make choices to commit crime.

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stalkingshadow01 t1_j3brd9m wrote

That’s just not true. I have been stopped and frisked before and my building’s near major police presence, so if it’s brought back, I will be stopped and frisked in the future. But that’s all I see it as each time I was stopped- an inconvenience.

It’s a question on whether lives are worth the inconvenience, and based on the downvotes, I’m sad to see political correctness > black and brown lives.

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Rottimer t1_j3cdou4 wrote

Imagine calling complaints about rank racism “political correctness.”

You’ll have to forgive me if I doubt your story. Regardless, you would have to be exceedingly ignorant of stop and frisk policy if you think the criticisms of it are about “political correctness.” It didn’t save black and brown lives. And it was more than an “inconvenience” for a lot of people.

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stalkingshadow01 t1_j3cibjk wrote

To be effective, doctors target illnesses and firefighter target fires. Likewise police should target areas of high crime and high risk individuals, which is what policy is designed to do and there is nothing racist about that.

On the practical side, I recognize certain minorities will be getting stopped and frisked more than others, the same minorities that are disproportionately affected by gun violence. I see it as a trade off, inconvenience vs lives saved. People are still debating effectiveness, but the design is sound in my opinion.

Do you have some personal reason to be so against the policy, what was your experience with it during the Bloomberg years?

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Rottimer t1_j3ctl0p wrote

So once again, despite recorded evidence to the contrary, you're making the assertion that stop and frisk worked. It did not. And it's not me saying that. It's researchers that studied it.

And despite the policy being found explicitly racist in a court of law, you'll deny that too. I really have no interest in arguing with someone that denies reality.

Have a great day.

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stalkingshadow01 t1_j3d53g6 wrote

Except you’re wrong, there’s plenty that support the policy worked, but I acknowledge there’s disagreement on the matter, and you should at least do the same.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1151121

https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2020/02/28/stop-and-frisk-legal-effective-democrats-attack-mike-bloomberg/4856378002/

https://theconversation.com/amp/stop-and-frisk-can-work-under-careful-supervision-127785

https://psmag.com/.amp/news/trump-is-still-a-fan-of-stop-and-frisk-but-does-it-work

There’s probably just as much disagreement on whether it’s racist; and it’s not about whether anyone’s living in your reality or not.

I’m curious why you didn’t respond to my question about your actual experience on the matter. Do you even have a dog in this fight or are you just some arm chair liberal that likes to dismiss anything that doesn’t fit your worldview.

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