You must be a lawyer because you are looking at this like a case you want to win and looking for a technical edge.

https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/PEN/125.27

> the defendant acted in an especially cruel and wanton manner pursuant to a course of conduct intended to inflict and inflicting torture upon the victim prior to the victim's death. As used in this subparagraph, "torture" means the intentional and depraved infliction of extreme physical pain; "depraved" means the defendant relished the infliction of extreme physical pain upon the victim evidencing debasement or perversion or that the defendant evidenced a sense of pleasure in the infliction of extreme physical pain; or

If you want to argue that what happened was not "especially cruel and wanton" that's on you. If you don't feel multiple people beating on someone is torturous, that's your opinion. The prosecutors and jurors thought so.

You forgot the beating, but I guess they determined that that wasn't severe enough. What a joke.

I agree to disagree

The dragging out of a deli and the beat down doesn't fit those requirements? It wasn't just a stab wound.

I made a mistake and it was more about the politics then the DA. If I meant the DA I would have said so.

My problem is the political ideas and the machine that has enabled this.

Yet you made the assumption. I said the city and I should have said the state. Regardless it is the same political machine that put the state judges and the city ones

I didn't mention the DA at all.

I edited it from City to State, but it doesn't matter. Its the same political machine that put those state judges there and made this determination.

Also with 25 years to life who is to say they will actually get life with the lessor sentence?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxA8vTd2VnQ

They dragged this poor kid out of a store and beat him, slashed his neck and left him to die and they they have the gall to say

"Thus, we find that defendant and his accomplices did not engage in a ‘course of conduct’ involving the intentional infliction of extreme physical pain.”"

He was convicted by a jury of his peers and the city reduced it.

This is the same city state that just dropped a first degree murder conviction on one of the members who killed Lesandro “Junior” Guzman-Feliz and that guy was caught on video.

https://pix11.com/news/local-news/bronx/court-throws-out-murder-conviction-in-bronx-justice-for-junior-case/

Open up and expand the municipal credit union.

https://www.nymcu.org/joinmcu/whocanjoin.aspx

E-Bikes will need safety regulations like cars & motorcycles.

They are motorized vehicles, just because they use electric doesn't mean they are not motorized.

I also believe they should have registrations like other motorized vehicles.

I had zip car for a number of years as it was my way to get to military duty and I got rid of it for the following reasons

• At the time, the price for a weekend was almost $400 this was comparable to a month of parking. Now it's just slightly less as parking prices went up.
• The cars were filthy. Food, animal hair. All sorts of nasty things
• You couldn't get a car in the summer. Things were just booked for months.

After dealing with Zip Car I learned that any shared resource from subways, parks and cars are treated awfully. If any one thing ruins this city it is the people who live here and don't care and treat things badly. I gave up bought a cheap city car and pay for parking and it's cleaner and cheaper for me then ZIP.

311 itself doesn't suck. It's the policies that suck. For example the NYPD should not be handling noise complaints.

They are looking for all that NYU Student money

I read your discussion as as two things:

Schools don't get the same fundraising because parents can't due to obligations. I disagreed and explained lack of responsibility vs. lack of ability.

Then that school budgets and policies should have a more tangible distribution of funds and students to address this. This I got from your second paragraph not the first one I responded to. I responded that I am fine with it, but I think will not fix anything.

I will respectfully agree to disagree.

You can spend more money, but you still will get the same results.

I was against cutting the school funds, I still am. But I also know that with increased funding the result will be the same.

You still still love your child and expect the system to do things for you and not take any responsibility. I know well to do parents that don't want to work with their children because they say how this is the responsibility of the school. I know well to do parents that don't understand why the school doesn't supply everything and with all the taxes they pay they shouldn't have to. So it is not a poor person mentality.

I went through the system and my girlfriend's son just graduated. It's not parents who have time nor money. They are just not concerned. She would come back from meetings where there were four parents.

For enough parents the school is there to deliver social services and they want the school to do everything and not have to participate. It's less of resources and more of a priority.