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Today I spent some time

artappraiser — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:13:45 +0000

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Today I spent some time walking through Oakland’s Chinatown with @oaklandpoliceca’s new chief LeRonne Armstrong who visited w/merchants & community members.

It was nice to see many people stop him to express gratitude for catching the suspect who shoved a 91-year old (1/2) pic.twitter.com/EA5Hv9XwjF
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) February 11, 2021

to the ground & after dozens of reported incidents of violence toward the Asian American community here.

This man owns a flower shop & was robbed in broad daylight but says new patrols & safety measures have brought some customers back. (2/2) pic.twitter.com/YbFAoCazAc
— Dion Lim (@DionLimTV) February 11, 2021

Where's the social workers?! How come he's not thanking the social workers?!

Review the arguments that the

artappraiser — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:08:38 +0000

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Review the arguments that the primary cause of crime is poverty and that police are no deterrent to crime. Then...take a look at the car the robbers are driving here. https://t.co/sFl6sDxS6u
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) February 11, 2021

The fact that the robbers are driving a car that is easily identified and will probably be arrested soon seems like the most powerful deterrent.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) February 11, 2021

One of the most relevant findings was that most types of crime didn't go up during the Great Recession. Another good body of research shows inequality, not poverty, is the main thing that correlates with crime.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) February 11, 2021

Well meaning people make the assumption that poverty and crime have this iron link but what they're inadvertently doing is arguing crime is the natural state of poor people. Was Bernie Madoff poor? There are other things involved.
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) February 12, 2021

Broad daylight attacks in San

artappraiser — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 08:39:05 +0000

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Broad daylight attacks in San Francisco and Oakland against the Asian elderly must be stopped. Our communities are afraid to step outside, even in the middle of the day. https://t.co/lOBhkyOYtC pic.twitter.com/V0PRdXI3IA
— Garry Tan (@garrytan) February 9, 2021

Closet blue-state gun owners

artappraiser — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 05:32:19 +0000

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Closet blue-state gun owners hit me up for ammo like I'm some sort of arms dealer. pic.twitter.com/S47WWjjYvw
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) February 6, 2021

For those inclined to think we're verging on some civil war, it does seem rather curious that a year into the pandemic, there's nowhere you can buy 12-gauge shotgun cartridges. pic.twitter.com/KHMkQA9kE4
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) February 6, 2021

highway robbery in San

artappraiser — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 05:28:09 +0000

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highway robbery in San Francisco:

Now does everyone believe me when I say the US is more like Latin America than Europe?

This is Rio/Caracas living right here.

I've taken that on-ramp a hundred times. It's literally blocks from billion-dollar tech companies. https://t.co/6dsmC38QHl
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) February 6, 2021

The fact the local prosecutor is a child of cop-killing leftist insurgents who still pays lip service to their politics, and who spent time working for the showcase leftist dictatorship of his time, is also a nicely Latin American touch.

This is all so familiar....
— Antonio García Martínez (@antoniogm) February 6, 2021

This morning, @NYPDShea

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 05:15:42 +0000

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This morning, @NYPDShea joined @danmannarino to discuss police reform, gun violence in NYC, and more.

Watch the full interview pic.twitter.com/5ZLTfhXM0q
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) February 2, 2021

^ the second is a quite

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 05:11:33 +0000

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^ the second is a quite amazing video, certainly had my heart pounding

I see the NYPD are still

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 05:09:09 +0000

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I see the NYPD are still nonetheless still trying real hard on the gun front:

Despite the challenges this city continues to face due to COVID-19, your NYPD officers made 486 gun arrests in January 2021. More than any January since 1995. pic.twitter.com/JJ7eHliVkA
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) February 3, 2021

edited to correct paste of tweet, and a second edit to throw this one in too:

Officers face life-threatening situations daily, sometimes with mere seconds to react. This suspect took a gun out of his pocket, feet away from officers. Thankfully, it ended just as many other encounters do, with an arrest & a gun recovered safely without any injuries. pic.twitter.com/FOiBaX6ZQe
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) February 3, 2021

yup. A lot of us NYC citizens

artappraiser — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 04:48:23 +0000

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yup. A lot of us NYC citizens were not just happy but very proud, rubbing it in to worried visiting friends and relatives that it was way safer than where they lived. A great tragedy. I don't see us as a country getting rid of all the extra guns that went into circulation this last year very easily. Even if we were so lucky as to develop some kind of nationwide licensing, a lot ot them will just go black market. Still, I am glad to have been alive to see proof that a low crime rate is quite possible in a big city like NYC without changing hardly anything else about inequalities and other social problems. It's simply not true that inequality and poverty causes crime, I saw crime go way way down with my very own eyes while all the other problems stayed.

We were happy that the crime

Aaron Carine — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 04:23:20 +0000

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We were happy that the crime rate was going down in the 90s and 2000s. It's very distressing to see the trend being reversed.