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cheetah611 t1_jb1s8mx wrote

Reply to comment by Amon213 in Woman Followed Into Manhattan Building, Dragged Out of Elevator in Late-Night Rape: Cops by NetQuarterLatte

This doesn't seem like a logical solution whatsoever. You're suggesting we give a tax funded firearm to every woman in NYC to prevent rape? The number of thefts, shootings, etc is going to skyrocket. Not only are you introducing about 2 million firearms into Manhattan alone, you're also giving them to untrained females who are going to be packing them on their person everyday.

Paid for courses + firearm is going to be in the vicinity of $550 per person, or $1,210,000,000 to arm the 2.2m+ females between 20-55 years old in Manhattan alone (not even taking BK or others into account). And I absolutely guarantee a massive number will end up in the hands of thieves who will now see every female as an opportunity to get their hands on a firearm registered in someone else's name.

Not even going to start on the statistics around household deaths and suicides when a firearm is introduced.

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jvspino t1_jb1qi2b wrote

Reply to comment by NetQuarterLatte in Woman Followed Into Manhattan Building, Dragged Out of Elevator in Late-Night Rape: Cops by NetQuarterLatte

I don't disagree with you entirely, but, as always, correlation is not causation. The pandemic resulted in high police mortality and lots of cities have been having trouble staffing departments, which probably contribute. I'm sure these reforms are having a negative impact on conviction rates, but we also can't assume that's necessarily a bad thing. Yes, there are high profile cases where someone clearly guilty gets off, but I'm sure there's less attention when someone innocent gets off too. As I mentioned above, several read like they were created to combat bad police work. I'm sure they create a higher bar for cases, but more work isn't an excuse to accept poor or dishonest policing and prosecution. I live in the city and am concerned about being a victim of crime, but being a victim of a corrupt justice system isn't something we should take lightly. Just my thoughts though.

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nycdataviz t1_jb1psid wrote

Reply to comment by Pennwisedom in Woman Followed Into Manhattan Building, Dragged Out of Elevator in Late-Night Rape: Cops by NetQuarterLatte

If you search "released on recognizance" and set the criteria to [within last month] you will get hits - to be clear this is not cherry picking this is a normal part of the weekly NYS courts blotter.

I'm not familiar with the case mentioned above. Here's a near-confirmed child molestor/rapist:

>In count one, Clark allegedly engaged in two or more acts of sexual conduct with a child less than eleven years old on or about and after Labor Day 2014 to mid-June, 2015 in the City of Batavia over a period of time less than three months in duration. In count two, Clark allegedly engaged in two or more acts of sexual conduct with a child less than eleven years old on or about and after Labor Day 2015 to mid-June, 2016 in the City of Batavia. Clark was released on recognizance.

https://videonewsservice.net/index.php/2023/01/30/genesee-county-unsealed-indictment-reveals-acts-of-sexual-conduct-against-a-child/

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