Wait. People that post from Peoria say it’s a crime ridden hell hole! How is that possible??

Most Americans in general. But bootlicker/I’ll be a millionaire one day really!!! types are going to do what they do.

That’s actually scary considering how abysmal his comment was. Friend.

Desantis is backed by dozens of billionaires. That’s why it’s funny that right wingers drag out Soros at every opportunity. In short your reply is idiotic.

https://www.axios.com/local/tampa-bay/2022/05/26/billionaire-backers-governor-ron-desantis

And to add cops who see other police do these things and don’t report it? But this guy will never straight up address things like this. The most he’ll give is a few bad apples nonsense vs systemic critique because the boot licking is too strong.

I agree. I believe that punishment for violent crimes should be harsh given the impact on victims, their loved ones and the overall impact to society. It makes my blood boil when people get no jail time for violent assaults and then go on to wreak more havoc. Rehabilitation for non violent crime where applicable, stiff penalties for violent crime and greater investment in society to help prevent crime in the first place.

I mean do you have a problem with reading comprehension? I never said there weren’t legit incidents of violence by actual people attached to the protests. I took issue with you referring to them as “riots” when they were overwhelmingly peaceful as all the data shows and a lot of the violence was initiated by outsiders and cops themselves.

You understand that it’s been documented that many of the protests were infiltrated by white supremacist provocateurs right?

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/12388260

FBI paid a violent felon to infiltrate BLM protests

https://theintercept.com/2023/02/07/fbi-denver-racial-justice-protests-informant/

The protests still overall were peaceful

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/10/12/critics-claim-blm-was-more-violent-than-1960s-civil-rights-protests-thats-just-not-true/

But of course I know I’m wasting my time because someone such as yourself doesn’t care about the facts just your narrative of mass riots and cities being burned to the ground.

I just want to make sure you understand that crime rose nationally since the onset of the pandemic and in states that you wouldn’t say were lenient on crime. You understand this right?

https://www.axios.com/2023/01/27/murder-rate-high-trump-republican-states

Murder highest in death penalty states.

https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/stories/dpic-analysis-pandemic-murder-rates-highest-in-death-penalty-states

Violent crime rates did fall overall last year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/crime-data-2022.amp.html

You understand this and aren’t saying NYC is unique in the US right?

They weren’t riots. They were largely peaceful protests marred by occasional incidents. A lot of violence was started by heavy handed police tactics a lot of which you can find on video but I’m sure you won’t care to. Also they wouldn’t have the addition of a hate crime.

Yes let’s just continue the failed drug war that has resulted in the untold deaths of thousands, empowered the drug cartels filled out prisons with the highest prison population in the world and a bunch of other negatives I could list. We found out with prohibition that it doesn’t work. It creates a violent black market and had wasted a trillion dollars that could have been used for far more productive things. I’d tell you to educate yourself on the matter but I suspect you have no interest in that.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/06/17/the-us-has-spent-over-a-trillion-dollars-fighting-war-on-drugs.html

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2021/09/24/biden-should-end-americas-longest-war-the-war-on-drugs/amp/

I’ve lived on the UES for 15 years and the time BQ(Before Q) and after are night and day. I went from a 45 mins or more commute to my midtown office to 25 mins. Not to mention all the connections I can now make. I love it. However as the article points out because urban residents are so starved for better public transportation infrastructure doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be criticisms of projects - especially 11 billion dollar ones that run 14 years over schedule. The article makes salient points and because the Q is an example of a good project doesn’t necessarily mean this one is.

All of these things are literally choices. We have the means as a society to solve most of our issues. We’ve simply decided that if it costs too much it’s not worth it. Meanwhile the Pentagon just failed five audits and can’t account for 60% of its budget. Citizens should be protesting in the streets over that alone, given how much we pay into with minimum accountability. But such is the numbness of the masses and therefore preventable tragedies will continue to happen.

Because people have been brainwashed into believing that not believing in tipping makes you cheap. This propaganda is of course encouraged by business interests that don’t want to pay living wages. I tip 20% on average unless service is abysmal but I believe tipping should be phased out and living wages provides to these workers.

A lot of the comments under the article at the NYPost site are brain melting. What a cesspool of ignorance.

This is funny but he can lift like 10 tons is incredibly fast and agile a genius and his webbing has the tensile strength of steel. He’s fine fighting crime anywhere.