AOC Explainer, Rise in Crime in NYC

@sleepyguy said
You would have been manning the guillotine, gleefully bringing social justice to former neighbors.

It is no surprise that this group would denigrate a popular rebellion against a tyrant.

For your homework, try reading Part 1 of Tom Paine's The Rights of Man. Maybe then you'll hesitate before voicing support for hereditary dictatorship.

@dood111 said
Speaking of being a phony, she loves to brag about being from the Bronx, but she wasn't living in some run down tenement, she was living in a private community called Parkchester, hardly the run down part of the Bronx she infers she grew up in. . Her father was an architect and when she was five they moved to Yorktown Heights, an small upscale community 45 miles from NYC, whe ...[text shortened]... he was know as Sandy Cortez. Then on to Boston University.
So she's hardly from "dem mean streets".

In other words, she's a "limousine liberal".

yup

@no1marauder said
I'm impressed that you can tell what the crime rate in NYC is going to be in the immediate future from your perch about 7,000 miles away.

There are almost 40,000 police in NYC and somehow they have to stumble alone with a mere $5 billion budget. If they can't do their job, maybe they should be replaced.

Excuse me No1, How far away from NYC are you?
Apparently you don't know the NYC police budget is $1 billion. Just approved last wednesday

@sleepyguy said
You would have been manning the guillotine, gleefully bringing social justice to former neighbors.

For sure! He'd be a member of the Khmer Rouge

@earl-of-trumps said
Excuse me No1, How far away from NYC are you?
Apparently you don't know the NYC police budget is $1 billion. Just approved last wednesday

Wrong.

This forum has become a fountain of ignorance, misinformation and overt racism.

@no1marauder said
It is no surprise that this group would denigrate a popular rebellion against a tyrant.

For your homework, try reading Part 1 of Tom Paine's The Rights of Man. Maybe then you'll hesitate before voicing support for hereditary dictatorship.

I have not voiced support for hereditary dictatorship.

@earl-of-trumps said
For sure! He'd be a member of the Khmer Rouge

Or leading the charge in China's Cultural Revolution, throwing people in prison and "re-education" labor camps in the name of freedom.

@no1marauder said
Wrong.

This forum has become a fountain of ignorance, misinformation and overt racism.

ooops it was $1 billion in cuts.

I stand corrected

@earl-of-trumps said
ooops it was $1 billion in cuts.

I stand corrected

None of which have went into effect (and probably never will).

@no1marauder

And that is all well and fine, but certainly not the focus of my thread.
It matters not what the cause in crime in NYC is to put AOC's statement
under the microscope.

When murders in NYC surge, we may not know why but we sure know why NOT
and it is not due to people stealing bread to feed their hungry children.

@earl-of-trumps said
@no1marauder

And that is all well and fine, but certainly not the focus of my thread.
It matters not what the cause in crime in NYC is to put AOC's statement
under the microscope.

When murders in NYC surge, we may not know why but we sure know why NOT
and it is not due to people stealing bread to feed their hungry children.

She wasn't asked about murders specifically but crime in general. And contrary to your beliefs poverty and crime (as recorded in the US) are usually positively correlated.

And it was you who insinuated that the budget cuts caused the crime "spike" which, has we have seen, is impossible.

@no1marauder

She wasn't asked about murders specifically but crime in general. And contrary to your beliefs poverty and crime (as recorded in the US) are usually positively correlated.

So you are defending her. You think she is right? Really???
The #1 crime is murder. That catches everyone's eye. How the hell did people
mugging and murdering end up doing this for bread? This is so disingenuous.

And it was you who insinuated that the budget cuts caused the crime "spike" which, has we have seen, is impossible.

It doesn't sound like *anything* I would say, I am all for budget cuts as opposed
to deficit spending. But I really do not recall that is anything I said.
Context is so important. you are lacking something here.

@earl-of-trumps said
@no1marauder

She wasn't asked about murders specifically but crime in general. And contrary to your beliefs poverty and crime (as recorded in the US) are usually positively correlated.

So you are defending her. You think she is right? Really???
The #1 crime is murder. That catches everyone's eye. How the hell did people
mugging and murdering end up d ...[text shortened]... lly do not recall that is anything I said.
Context is so important. you are lacking something here.

Did someone else write the first sentence of the OP in this thread?

@no1marauder said
Did someone else write the first sentence of the OP in this thread?

You mean cuts specifically to the police budget. Ohhhh, Ok. Didn't know
what you meant.

I am against it, basically. But I don't care. The people of New York can do
whatever they want. If I have a vote in my city, I'd vote no.