MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Violence inequality shames America; Only the wealthy can afford to defund the police
By artappraiser on Wed, 01/12/2022 - 5:46pm |
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https://unherd.com/2022/01/violence-inequality-shames-america/
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by artappraiser on Thu, 01/13/2022 - 10:30pm
Not about crime, but nonetheless an insinuation about Lori Lightfoot's abilities to govern:
My takeaway: Criticizing blue mayors of dysfunctional cities may or may not be bullshit, but it wins elections. This is one of the main reasons why BLM was counterproductive - it attacked blue local governance from the left, makes it so easy to say: nobody is happy with what blue mayors do.
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/13/2022 - 10:47pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/13/2022 - 10:50pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/16/2022 - 12:05am
As Republicans push crime as top election issue, House Speaker defends Democratic efforts at reform but hints at new anti-crime package — Chicago Tribune
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/13/2022 - 10:33pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/13/2022 - 10:54pm
by artappraiser on Fri, 01/14/2022 - 10:42pm
carrying the point from the article that Buss is emphasizing in his tweet further -
I'd suggest scratching the TV show part, though and make it: A fact you’d never guess from reading "BLM" agitprop...
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/15/2022 - 6:19am
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/15/2022 - 6:37am
Strikes me that this could be a great ad for Build Back Better IF ONLY it didn't mean you'd have to bash current lefty Dems running lots of California:
Just another example of how the "Defund policing" crowd drags the whole Democratic party down...(civilization itself is not a toy to experiment with)
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/15/2022 - 5:33pm
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/16/2022 - 11:46pm
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/15/2022 - 3:06pm
How many people will react, not good for relying on the tourist industry:
by artappraiser on Sat, 01/15/2022 - 11:36pm
Just a fact:
by artappraiser on Sun, 01/16/2022 - 11:20pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/17/2022 - 2:52am
"I forgive him" for shooting his kid over barbecue sauce? In less than a day? Even Jesus wasn't in such a hurry.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 01/17/2022 - 3:04am
Baton Rouge's deadliest year, "shattering" 2020 records, complete with victim photos on cover, who all look like "P.O.C." to me
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/17/2022 - 3:02am
^ compare Washington Post updated database of police shootings across the entire country
860 people have been shot and killed by police in the past year
Updated Jan. 15, 2022
with more whites killed than blacks though blacks are killed more often than their proportion of the population.
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/17/2022 - 3:08am
With perhaps a few of those 860 being bad actors. And I"m not referring to the Alec Baldwin thing.
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 01/17/2022 - 8:29am
Ding ding ding! THE NASTY REALITY: It's just words if you don't have the guts to restrict some civil rights of the mentally ill and force them into treatment and/or partial "incarceration." That's the conundrum with the pitiful state of psychiatric medicine today; it is what it is
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/17/2022 - 4:00pm
p.s. precisely:
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/17/2022 - 4:21pm
by PeraclesPlease on Mon, 01/17/2022 - 5:22pm
Meanwhile it's looking like NYPost is clearly going to go back to its crime-sheet roots and publicize every scary happenstance; it's a twofer as they get to razz Eric Adams to keep his promises. This happened at an iconic Greenwich Village Manhattan subway stop which even at 3:30 am might be filled with hipsters and tourists both:
What I am saying: in the past this probably wouldn't be a covered story....and most people wouldn't know. But the misperception is not that it's not happening! It's happening, it's just wasn't being covered in media most people see.
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/17/2022 - 6:27pm
yup, it's looking like if it has something to do with the rising crime rate, the NYPost is going to publish on it:
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/17/2022 - 7:19pm
How someone like "Enrique", who lives among trust-funded lefty Brooklyn hipsters sees the situation
He basically has this takeaway: "progressives" don't give a shit about people like him, they would sacrifice him and his life to their favorite causes in a NY minute
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/17/2022 - 6:56pm
Subway pushing deaths by mentally ill really do seem to touch New Yorkers much more than other kinds of violence:
I have seen it before, it's something that really resounds with people for whatever reason.
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/18/2022 - 7:59pm
BTW, the last two tweets remind me that after following crime news for months now, I have seen plenty of blacks who seem more upset with the rising rates of violent crime than they are with police abuse.
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/17/2022 - 11:35pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/17/2022 - 11:49pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 01/17/2022 - 11:58pm
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/18/2022 - 12:08am
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/18/2022 - 12:11am
Not long ago 86th St. on the upper east side was an extremely safe shopping area
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/18/2022 - 12:19am
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/18/2022 - 1:03pm
from At-Home Covid Test Deliveries Delayed By L.A. Train Robberies by Lauren Debter & Alan Ohmsman @ Forbes.com, Jan. 14
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/18/2022 - 1:17pm
"Essential workers" have a new threat and it's not Covid?
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/18/2022 - 1:28pm
execution work in NYC
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/18/2022 - 1:34pm
at 3:09 pm CST:
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/18/2022 - 5:13pm
Here's another case freaking a lot of people out: a young woman working alone in a high-end L.A. furniture store stabbbed to death for no reason by an apparently mentally ill guy:
by artappraiser on Tue, 01/18/2022 - 10:53pm
this one too:
....The suspect, who police identified as transient Kerry Bell, is alleged to have struck Shells in the face, causing her to fall and sustain a fractured skull. She was subsequently rushed to the hospital.
“Bell struck the victim without provocation and for no reason,” the news release said.
Officers arrested Bell, 48, about 90 minutes later. He was found sleeping a short distance from the incident and taken into custody....
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/19/2022 - 1:47am
NYC council member representing the Bronx on "terrorizing poor neighborhoods" by shooting cops
Not BLM-friendly anymore if he ever was.
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/19/2022 - 12:16am
Note in the third tweet where she says remember when they told us counterfeit bills didn't matter?
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/19/2022 - 2:31am
^note: 5 counts
by artappraiser on Wed, 01/19/2022 - 8:33pm
Glenn Loury's pushing discussing the same narrative:
I noticed this article being over at the Pew site which I think is related big picture:
Covid (and resulting things like speedup in telecommuting resources in jobs) caused more people to like the idea of living in non-urban areas in a larger home with its own lot. There is growth in surburban areas WHICH REQUIRES MONEY AND A CAR or at least use of car services.This takes away taxpayers from urban area. This also causes a decline of "gentrification" in urban areas, and otherwise think what you like about gentrifiers, it's hard to deny that squeaky wheel gentrifiers interested in increasing property values will demand safety (i.e., more better policing) and will get more attention than the poor "ghetto" denizens. It's a spiral down.
It also got me thinking about how all this moving, larger homes, and use of cars is one of the causes of inflation, first starting directly with cost of cars and fuel and then trickling down to all related...and inflation most hurts those who need to spend all their income...
edit to add: it's like a monster storm as things like mob robberies and violence in luxury urban shopping areas makes the people with money to spend in such areas less and less interested in going to them unless they are the types excited by "slumming" as entertainment
by artappraiser on Thu, 01/20/2022 - 1:35am