No military in the streets?
Same people who went to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Correct.
Posse Comitatus doesn’t apply.
State guard.
Are you sure about that?
Yeah he’s sure. If they’re not under federal control it doesn’t apply. How do you not know that?
Are you sure?
Thanks for stopping by.
No federal money is being used in this NYC deployment? None? Zero? Nada?
I was here when you got here, having a nice conversation with @FreeAndClear .
Before you wandered in and puddled on the good rug.
You really are grasping aren’t you. Just let this one go.
Are you sure? No federal dollars?
Federal dollars is enough for a lot of things.
Yes.
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Ok, as long as you’re sure. Don’t get disappeared.
As the businesses leave there’s fewer places to steal from! So like magic crime goes down!
shoplifting cost retailers in the state $4.4 billion in 2022. Thefts have gone up 64 percent between June 2019 and June 2023. City retail thefts are up more than 6.5 percent as of April 2024 compared to April 2023.
New York City Councilmember for Queens and Republican Vickie Paladino put it frankly. “We’ve got kids coming in on bicycles and just ransacking a store." She continued, saying, “We can’t sugarcoat the fact that there’s rampant crime in the city that is preventing people from opening small businesses in areas that used to be nice places to go to.”
Bronx Councilmember Oswald Feliz, chair of the Committee on Small Business and a Democrat mentioned how close to home the issue was for him. “There’s a Walgreens one minute away from where I live that’s closing down due to retail theft.” Going further he stated, “Anytime I speak to a small business that is literally the very first issue they bring to us.”
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Dems watch stores close in the dem cities because of thieves and then claim crime is down.
It’s delusional like Russian collusion…
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Another way to lower crime is to reclassify what is a crime or crime worth prosecuting:
Law enforcement, businesses and local elected officials across the Golden State are campaigning to roll back parts of Prop. 47. That’s the 2014 initiative that made misdemeanors of drug possession and theft of less than $950 in goods. Supporters including Mr. Newsom said it would save money by reducing incarceration.
The George Soros-backed initiative cut the state prison count, but Californians are paying a high price. Organized criminals exploit the law’s lax penalties. District attorneys say Prop. 47 prevents them from leveraging the penalty of jail time to induce addicts into treatment. Police often don’t arrest thieves or drug users because the crimes go unpunished. Retail theft, vagrancy and open-air drug use have spiked.
But crime going down from record highs doesn’t mean crime is down to pre-reform levels, which is precisely what Buttiegeg would have you believe.
Annual homicides in Denver dropped 4% in 2023 (with 72). It’s still 14% higher than what it was in 2019 (63). Homicides in Albuquerque saw a 21% dip in 2023 (95). Yet that’s still 86% higher than in 2018 (51). Washington D.C., meanwhile, had more homicides at 274 than in any other year in the two decades. Seattle, where I’m based, experienced a precipitous rise in homicides in 2020, but hit an all-time high in 2023.
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funny how NYC is omitted from you list.
Allan
Cooking the books.
“The most flagrant example is publicly on the Philadelphia website,” Kennedy said. “There are twice as many murders in Philadelphia in the period they’re describing than what the MCCA reported.”
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