The punishment for grand larceny has been lowered to what amounts to a slap on the wrist.
Stop with the nonsense.
JWK
It shouldn’t have been. It should have been modified on a case by case basis. I agree here.
The new policy is:
• Armed robbers who use guns or other deadly weapons to stick up stores and other businesses will be prosecuted only for petty larceny, a misdemeanor, provided no victims were seriously injured and there’s no “genuine risk of physical harm” to anyone. Armed robbery, a class B felony, would typically be punishable by a maximum of 25 years in prison, while petty larceny subjects offenders to up to 364 days in jail and a $1,000 fine
• Burglars who steal from residential storage areas, parts of homes that aren’t “accessible to a living area” and businesses located in mixed-use buildings will be prosecuted for a low-level class D felony that only covers break-ins instead of for more serious crimes. Those more serious crimes, class B and class C felonies, would be punishable by up to 25 and up to 15 years in prison respectively.
The Midwest and the south think that’s what most metropolitan areas look like today anyway. This isn’t a dodge. It’s reality for them.
The money is only there if the companies and high wealth workers stay there. High tech allows finance to be done anywhere. Empty buildings don’t generate tax revenue. Workers taking their residency elsewhere don’t continue to pay NYC taxes for a job no longer located there. And tourists don’t visit violent hell holes.
The money isn’t leaving. It’s not leaving Chicago or LA.
You guys still don’t get where most of the crime occurs and why it’s shifting upstate. Yes they certainly burglarize village boutiques but it’s not the scary works you guys are envisioning. In fact it was never a Charles Bronson film.
That being said Crime will spike because people will start testing boundaries of the new rules and you guys will jump up and down.
I’m referring to what will happen to the law abiding citizen that tries to protect himself, his family and his property from the criminals.
Yet this article from 12/09/2021 decries how the money is already leaving NYC.
New data shows New York is losing share of millionaires
Rich people don’t put up with living in a crime infested hell hole. They vote with their feet and take their wealth with them.
Gentrification isn’t based only on millionaires. In fact not even close.
Also paywall. You read the headline and the blurb. AmaZing.
Also
New York state has seen a slow erosion of its prominence as a home to the wealthiest earners, according to new economic data. … New York’s share of U.S. millionaire earners dropped by nearly 4% between 2010 and 2019, according to a new study from the Empire Center
If you had got past th e paywall
Safest 9 years in city history by the way
I know! And that is an additional consequence when nitwit voters elect and re-elect a Democrat Party Leadership . . . the jurisdiction turns into a hellhole.
Kimberly Klacik of Baltimore explained this during last election:
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JWK
The Democrat Party Leadership, once an advocate for hard working American citizens and their families, is now their most formidable domestic enemy.
That walk way movement face planted by the way.
It’s probably going to come to that.
Bragg and woke libs will have a conniption then. 
Also the reform is breathtakingly stupid. Not in its scope. It has some great ideas but across the board implementation. It takes the pendulum and swings it way too far way too fast. It’s going to create chaos. Its foolhardy and should be taken slowly implementing one policy at a time.
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They will have hundreds of Kyle Rittenhouse type prosecutions and trials in NYC.
JWK
Didn’t happen in the 70s, once in the 80s and not once in the 90s in NYC. But may be this time.
The guy in the 80s was possibly hunting…
Hasn’t happened In Chicago, hasn’t happened in LA, hasn’t happened in Baltimore.
But this time you guys just know it. Hundreds!
And the best part is you guys don’t understand one of the major reasons why it hasn’t happened….
How many times in the past half century did it come to that?
Was crime worse in the 70s, 90s?
Why do you guys continue to live in present centric mindset?
I have seen no evidence of that, but I’m no lawyer. Where in the memo does it mention grand larceny? Here’s the memo for reference:
They are offering diversion for misdemeanors. Grand larceny is not a misdemeanor.
Stop with the nonsense.
Dude.
Is that what Conservative think?
Those are people of privilege and should freely give to the criminal (i.e. victims) anything they want. If they choose to defend themselves or their family they will be charged and convicted to the fullest extent of the law!
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Part of the new policy can be found HERE:
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Armed robbers who use guns or other deadly weapons to stick up stores and other businesses will be prosecuted only for petty larceny, a misdemeanor, provided no victims were seriously injured and there’s no “genuine risk of physical harm” to anyone. Armed robbery, a class B felony, would typically be punishable by a maximum of 25 years in prison, while petty larceny subjects offenders to up to 364 days in jail and a $1,000 fine.
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Convicted criminals caught with weapons other than guns will have those felony charges downgraded to misdemeanors unless they’re also charged with more serious offenses. Criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, a class D felony, is punishable by up to 7 years behind bars.
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Burglars who steal from residential storage areas, parts of homes that aren’t “accessible to a living area” and businesses located in mixed-use buildings will be prosecuted for a low-level class D felony that only covers break-ins instead of for more serious crimes. Those more serious crimes, class B and class C felonies, would be punishable by up to 25 and up to 15 years in prison respectively.
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Drug dealers believed to be “acting as a low-level agent of a seller” will be prosecuted only for misdemeanor possession. Also, suspected dealers will only be prosecuted on felony charges if they’re also accused of more serious crimes or are actually caught in the act of selling drugs. That felony would mean facing up to seven years behind bars.
