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NetQuarterLatte t1_jax053q wrote

>Noooo you mean Debumblio was also just another mayor who did whatever financial interests wanted him to nooooooo

Earlier you cited De Blasio as some sort of example or model mayor. Now he is not? A little more coherence doesn't hurt.

By the way, I have no problem with making Riker's a better place. I have issues with the notion that De Blasio was some sort of hero or that he represented anything whatsoever consistently. All those things, he could've started on year 1, rather than on year 7.

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marketingguy420 t1_jawzi8l wrote

Noooo you mean Debumblio was also just another mayor who did whatever financial interests wanted him to nooooooo

Anyway, lol "defund the police" still running with this shit years later. He moved money from one cop department to another cop department. Bad faith horseshit as always.

The amount of Terry Stops plummeted and crime went down.

I have no idea what your problem with wanting to make Riker's not a hellscape where kids kill themselves waiting years for a stolen back-pack trial, but I guess that's your kinda thing!

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NetQuarterLatte t1_jawy19j wrote

When exactly did De Blasio end stop and frisk? https://theintercept.com/2021/06/10/stop-and-frisk-new-york-police-racial-disparity/

De Blasio, he wanted to pose as progressive, but at core he wasn't. Just like many other "progressive" politicians in NYC, so much so that progressiveness in NYC has lost its historical meaning at this point.

Why else do you think De Blasio would wait 7 years to:

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proudbakunkinman t1_jawxjfp wrote

I think this requires more federal intervention or at least state help, it's too complicated to handle at a city level. The city is just going to do what is the fastest and easiest, which means the most expensive and not sustainable for long without making things worse. I'm not sure how much Biden can do without help from congress (with the House being run by Republicans) though. But maybe there's at least more that can be done at the state level, like splitting up the migrants into several cities and not putting most of the burden on NYC.

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