The one good thing he is doing is pushing the idea of replacing roads for cars with "pedestrian plazas"

Some may not like it, but I find that one of the biggest issue with the city is lack of open space for people to enjoy themselves. We shouldn't need to take a trip to a park to have fun and be safe from automobiles.

Doesn't the M34 run on 34th crosstown?

I didn’t even rank him. KG was my #1

Who said anything about banning single family houses? I just said we should get rid of single family housing zones. It's a fact that Single family zones were created to prevent building multiple family houses which are are associated with low income housing. It was a workaround against having " no black people" written into housing guidelines which was definitely a thing before the 50s. After they've always changed saying that they couldn't do that, a lot of places created restrictions limiting housing to single-family housing because poor people, aka the blacks, couldn't afford it.

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He was arrested though.

I think the problem with an arrest warrant is that it’s only to bring him in front of a judge.

If the court can’t hold a trial right then and there, then they have to release him if it’s a misdemeanor.

There’s always exceptions but the vast majority of people who repeatedly miss court appearances have an arrest warrant issued and are eventually arrested. The fact that it was a big deal that Yuna Lee’s murderer had not been arrested is precisely part of the reason it was such a big deal.

No one is suggesting to ban single family homes. We are discussing reducing the amount of places where that’s the only legal thing to build

Arrest warrants don’t do much though. At least in NYC.

Yuna Lee’s killer was arrested for a misdemeanor, and even though he had an arrest warrant another crime, he was still released (and committed that murder shortly after).

I guess i should add that they caught one of them. The others are still loose.

Wouldn't banning single family homes be doing the same?

Nah, he was the priest at my wedding so I trust him.

No place should have single-family housing zones. All of that are relics from when they changed housing codes to keep black and brown people out.

And don’t you dare ask me what we studied!

The report addresses potential confounding issues due to COVID. In a nutshell, clearance rates were down during 2020 and declined-prosecution rates were up in 2020, and both of those things went back to normal in 2021 (links to that are in the report in the “limitations” section). However, since they tracked re-arrest over two years for everyone, the “pandemic effect” affects (aka downward biases) the re-arrest rates for both the pre-reform group and the post-reform group.

I'd like to sell one big thing, you know? Like a plane. One sale. I'm out.

it was right there!

Okay, but the implication you're trying to make from that "fact" (arrest rates are not the same as crime rates) is unsupported by it. The only thing it proves is that you're a racist. Race is irrelevant here. And as I said, the data is skewed because black and brown communities are overpoliced. Looking at crime and wealth maps of the city is far more relevant despite what you're saying because the vast majority of crimes tend to happen in the community of the person committing said crime.

> The conclusion you're drawing from it cannot be drawn with that data alone.

Uh, yes, it can. The conclusion I gave was clearly stated as "The group in NYC with the highest poverty rate has the lowest crime rate." That's true and supported by those independent sources. You don't need a sociologist to add an "and" to those sentences.

You tried to discredit the statement with some very poorly-thought-out speculation on your part, and probably didn't take 60 seconds to challenge your own worldview.

If you don’t show up for court - especially repeatedly - there’ll be an arrest warrant and you’ll be locked up.

I agree with you that the law can and should be improved. That said, the harm-harm guideline that was introduced with the bail amendments in July 2020 addresses a large swath of the “repeat offenders” who people are rightly concerned about.

No, it doesn’t. While the harm-harm rule is kinda imprecise, the basic idea is that every crime is a “harm” crime except for “victimless crimes” such as prostitution or drug crimes (though some judges may consider the sale of meth as a harm crime while other judges may not, so there’s still room for discretion). In any case, for example petit larceny (a misdemeanor) is a harm to property crime and would thus be a harm-harm crime. The same is true for many other misdemeanors.

Sorry. You’re right. CEO pay has skyrocketed.

I want more crosstown busways personally (like 14th). I’d do 34th, 42nd, and 57th as the bare minimum.

And much more severe restrictions for standing in bus lanes.

This guy just keeps getting worse

i need to see this waterfall