Does anyone know what an "unverified crime post" is? I'm not familiar. (rule #13)

You don't know to what extent non-nyc residents are up or down voting things, that's impossible to determine. I'd be all for vetting residents, as someone has challenged my residency simply bc they don't like my views. It'd be nice, but it will likely never happen.

Nah, but I do happen to care about vulnerable people, on both side of the issue. I guess you don't :( sad times, frankie no care about other people, only fake caring about homeless mentally ill people without actually getting them any help, oo la la.

Man arrested after fighting with NYPD officers, tossing one like ‘a rag doll’

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Crime posts should be moved back to the main. No one even got to vote on this 'experiment' before it was implemented... i.e., it doesn't matter what any of us think, you mods have already made up your minds. I don't even know why you're asking for feedback, frankly.

Agreed. Thats democracy. Problem is, not many people actually like that.

And people who don't take the subway regularly and haven't been in a pharmacy in months (where everything is now locked up) love to deny the reality of the city's problems.

You can't force the horse to drink.

You cannot undermine crime as the main concern. It's exactly why Garcia did fall short. That's the point. Crime was the #1 issue people were voting on.

https://nypost.com/2021/05/16/nyc-democratic-voters-say-safety-is-top-concern-in-new-mayoral-poll/

These people have never once knocked on a door in NYCHA, for example, and have never talked to lifetime residents of low income neighborhoods. Trust that the law abiding folks in those communities want to feel safe.

They don't have one. Before the election it was "You will all disappear after the election, and so will these posts". Now that they haven't we're 'brigading'. Talk about bad faith arguments, smh.

We are aware you prefer to have everything in one place you can ignore.

"No no, only the thing I don't like have an agenda behind them."

/s

"OMG 30 priors - who could've seen this coming!?!"

People downvoting this joke: lighten up. Its a joke. He is Jewish and had a Nazi arm band. That is *unusual*.

Repeat offender on parole with 30 prior arrests robs, hits NYC straphanger with cane: police sources

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I do feel like it is a problem, so I'll move on to the next question...

>If you do feel crime is a major problem in NY, what do you think the solution is? Or what can ordinary NYers do?

The solution is to fix bail reform, and lock up repeat offenders, while also implementing long term social solutions to these problems such as better educations, afterschool and sports programs, etc. so we can stop criminalizing the youth in low income communities.

In terms of bail reform, we need to allow judges to hold people pre-trial if they determine they are a danger, which is nothing something the law currently allows for. we also need to reform discovery laws which are crushing the DA's offices with an undue amount of work producing documents that sometimes have no impact on a proceeding. We need to bring back involuntary institutionalization, but in a compassionate way, no lobotomies or shock therapy. Violent mentally ill people need to be kept on their meds and kept away from the general population. We should make it a crime to sleep on a train or sidewalk; the only penalty being you are held in a shelter overnight. But we need to stop letting the homeless refuse services, they need the help and they'll never get there if we don't make them. These are a few suggestions that would help greatly.

What can people do? Be vocal. Many on this sub could stop denying the problems. That's a start. I'm not advising anyone to go out and become batman, but if you feel comfortable intervening if someone is in danger, do so (at your own risk). Those of us who can have to keep a watchful eye. Sometimes just being alert and making eye-contact with someone who a menacing say a train can prevent them from flying completely off the handle. Ultimately tho, for the public's part, its going to take advocacy, not action in the moment.

Two teenagers shot on Staten Island

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"Man, I did Nazi that coming..."

Man who allegedly threatened NYC synagogue is Jewish, kin of a Holocaust survivor: Lawyer

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Ah yes, the person who wants to increase public safety is pro-crime. Smfh, its so senseless I can't even.

He really thought he did something there.

"I don't know why that's so important to you."

Take your weird projections about everyone you hate living in their parents basement elsewhere, thanks. Its an odd fantasy my guy.