Well I live in a nice area atleast that is for Atlanta not Georgia my guy

Yeah, I have a freezer.

As an attorney that practices in this field, it sounds reasonable at first right? The reality is that it's impossible to do this on every single case when you have 130+ cases and the turn around is 90 days on misdeamanors. If you're past 90 days the case is dismissed by law regardless of the merits. Meaning even if you have a cooperative victim, the defendant is caught on video, and he admits to doing it, the law states that the case must be dismissed.

Generally what's missing when a case is dismissed? Let's talk about a domestic violence assault case. It's not the paperwork work that you need like an arrest report surveillance notes, or even anything that's remotely helpful to the defense etc case. You have all of the responding and arresting officers information, reports and body camera already.

It's generally paperwork like 20th cop that arrived at the scene that didn't see anything and didn't arrest anyone yet you need his automatically generated memo book with the only entry being the time he began his shift.

If you don't have that, the case is dismissed, the order of protection is dismissed and the abuser is free to contact and abuse their victim again and the cycle of domestic violence continues.

You offered no solution. Just a critique. Congrats on pointing out my solution wasn't perfect. I never said it was.

You offered a terrible solution, didn't acknowledge my counter argument in any way, and expected me to solve all rape in a city which is arguable safer per person than most of america.

Rape has been happening for thousands of years. Doesn't make it ok, but the solution isn't something as easy as give people guns lol. Sure, rape goes down while violent armed crime and shootings absolutely skyrocket. Problem solved though, right?

https://www.bestplaces.net/crime/?city1=53651000&city2=51304000

Georgia has a higher violent and property crime rate per person than New York.

I'm not anti-gun, but to propose arming half the population isn't a solution.

It's exactly because I'm looking through a non-political lens that I can say that. Crime in the entire country provably jumped a huge amount during the pandemic and has yet to recover to pre-pandemic levels. But the same bullshit arguments used against progressives to blame them for crime in NYC are not used or even brought up against Republicans in far redder states where crime remains higher than in NY or in their cities.

So please, go on and tell me how political I'm being when this shit only ever matters to your ilk when you can point a finger at someone that leans to the left.

What social investments are we lacking to stop rapes?

Garbage logic in line with the MAGA morons that said the coronavirus would disappear after the 2020 election and only existed as a political ruse. Crime in NYC provably jumped a huge amount as the pandemic started and has yet to recover to prepandemic levels, even though it has improved.

You're incapable of viewing the issue through a non-political lens or giving two shits about victims of crime.

I don't totally understand why business people can get guns more easily because they handle money but individuals who are frequently targeted aren't able to get a gun to protect themselves. Money is valued more than your life. Businesses have insurance. NYC pretends all the laws are about safety of the greater good, but it's really about privileges for the wealthy and powerful. Criminals will get guns illegally or just use knives. If you have a door man or private security you're going to be safer, only poorer people have to worry.

While I understand the anti-police sentiment, convictions rate is not really a measure of the quality of police arrests.

A better measure of the quality of the arrests is whether prosecutors are charging the case (assuming the prosecution doesn’t change, obviously).

Arrests that are not justified will have their prosecution declined, and that statistic is also available in the linked sheet.

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You couldn't find an image of them working and not idle for this post?

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1. Clothes are often helpful. People tend to wear the same outerwear over and over during a particular season. I don't know if you have 20 different coats, and 30 different sweatshirts - maybe you do, NYC has a lot of rich people. It also has a lot of poor ones that don't have the option. I"m going to guess the rapist falls into the latter group.

2. I'm black, and I could not tell you with even 75% certainty that the guy in the unfocused, grainy surveillance video is black, Latino, or something else. I could say he's not white. But what use is that? You'd be happy if the article said dark skinned? Do you realize that describes like 60% of the city? What's your thought process on this? It's sounds like something has hijacked your thinking.

What's the over-under on this being a homeless guy with dozens of prior arrests and/or convictions?

Oh goody, the UWS is getting yet another homeless shelter, right across the street from a school. No background checks on prior convictions, yay!

We love being a dumping ground for shelters while simultaneously being accused of not having any. Love it.

I have read that the use of contractors is also a huge driver of cost. In the early and mid 20th century, NYC had a small army of public planners, engineers, draftspersons, and architects on the payroll for public works. As dedicated staff, they were familiar with their specialized area of work and were well integrated into the bureaucracy. After decades of budget slashing, most of those public servants are gone, and now the city must hire contractors who are not well integrated into the city planning system, who must do research and extra planning for jobs they are less familiar with, and who command a far higher hourly rate.

we need cars

It's not about not defending the perp, it's about looking for squares when the missing shape is a triangle.

I'm not blaming victims, I just think the correlation you're drawing is spurious.

Wait - you want us to ask the violent rapist about his preferred ethnicity to use in a description?

I guess they don’t want to risk offending him by giving a physical description in case he identifies differently

A competent police force would be nice.

Perhaps the tracks were more reliable in ye olden days because they were not so old back then. The NYC subway system still runs largely on technology from the 1930s. Much of the switch infrastructure still runs on vacuum tubes. Maintenance was heavily neglected in the late 20th century, ridership is way up, and repairs are challenging to schedule on one of the world's only 24 hour subway systems. Maybe if NYC of your time hadn't coasted on the investments of the early 20th century, your train wouldn't be so late.

You don't need CCP in Texas any longer to carry concealed. Regardless, that sounds like victim blaming, because even Texas, you need to choose to carry a weapon. It's almost like you're blaming those victims for being raped if they didn't have a CCP.

To reduce rapes in this city/state/country? A tremendous amount of money to fund social investment that would take years to see the results of. So nothing that politicians or most American voters are willing to do.