It's law enforcement's fault when one minority group member attacks another? You make it seem like they are a people who are incapable of being responsible for their own behavior.
Everyone is to blame for the criminals behvaior but them.
If your argument was valid then why are only a small minority of the people in that neighborhood causing all the problems? Theire fellow neighbors blame them not the police.
Will concede no reason for mae calling, but calling you delusional is not name calling. Your perception suggests to me that you are out of touch with reality.
Calling people idiots is idiotic, so I will refrain from that in the future.
You obviously never walked through each of the city neigborhoods and like a typical non-Schenectadian have no idea how bad they are, and believe that Downtown IS Schenectady. In reality Downtown is about 1% of Schenectady. The neighborhoods are in utter ruins and there are never publicity shots for those. Of course you would have to have a tie to the neighborhoods, or own property in one of them or two of them to understand this level of decay. What used to be a middle class town 20 years ago has become nothing but a slum. You spend any time you have in the 4 square blocks of Downtown and believe the propaganda. You should go talk to Marv Cermak if you want to understand the situation better. You obviously have less than zero for a clue.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
There was no downtown in the 1990s. Just empty storefronts. Schenectady's biggest(and only) draw during the 1990s was the headshops on Jay Street.
the neighborhoods faired 100% better 20 years ago. The schools faired better. Crime was low. Downtown was only an eye sore......no one really gave a sh!t about downtown except those that could get rich from it.
In comes the METROPLEX/GILLEN/DEMS, promising lower taxes, jobs and prosperity!!! The 'selected few' got and are still getting rich, the schools are substandard, crime is at an all time high as well as taxes and home values are either at an all time LOW and/or VACANT!!!
So while the 2 blocks of state street has become the bottomless tax funded money pit......the residents, neighborhoods and what is remaining of the working class are under water!
Rest assured that this is a liberal nut job 'created society' to benefit not only the political party....but those that are rich and getting richer at the cost of the working class!!! GREAT JOB DEMS!!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
It's law enforcement's fault when one minority group member attacks another? You make it seem like they are a people who are incapable of being responsible for their own behavior.
Everyone is to blame for the criminals behvaiorbehavior but them.
If your argument was valid then why are only a small minority of the people in that neighborhood causing all the problems? Theiretheir fellow neighbors blame them not the police.
Will concede no reason for maename calling, but calling you delusional is not name calling. Your perception suggests to me that you are out of touch with reality.
Calling people idiots is idiotic, so I will refrain from that in the future.
You are the self delusional teacher of the use of violence and guns, as a tool for problem solving.
When Chicago stepped up the attacks on the gangs this year, what happened?
Correct, it has accelerated the death and violence to an all time high.
Your method has never worked anywhere.
Every city in the country has gotten worse using your bankrupt the citizens to be safe method.
You are the delusional failure who builds war zones one bash to the head, or one bullet at a time.
Plus spell check is included in the forum software, you dyslexic idiot.
Hit the preview button before posting.
You still can't manage to include the quoted text from the statement you are replying to as well.
You reply only to matters not pertaining to your violent and deadly nature that you spread daily across the nation.
What about the dramatic drop in crime in NYC under Commissioner Bratton and Mayot Giuliani, (assisted by amassive influx of police officers hired by Dinkins)?
Name calling is wrong, but you seem to use it a lot. So, once you deem someone does not share your moral and unrealistic perception of society, then you are justified is hurling a barrage of insults at them?
Name calling is wrong, but you seem to use it a lot. So, once you deem someone does not share your moral and unrealistic perception of society, then you are justified is hurling a barrage of insults at them?
Calling an illiterate spokesman for the police an idiot, is a fact, not an opinion.
The country is viewed through google news, not from the typing fingers of a police spokesman.
If you don't want to be called an idiot, use proper spelling, grammar and coherent sentences.
Additionally, quoting what you are replying to, makes your reply actually have something it is addressing, not just something stupid added randomly amongst orderly replies.
What about the dramatic drop in crime in NYC under Commissioner Bratton and Mayot Giuliani, (assisted by amassive influx of police officers hired by Dinkins)?
Do We Want a 'Stop-and-Frisk' Society? Posted: 08/15/2012 1:45 pm
More than a thousand times a day, New York City police officers stop and frisk Americans going about their business. In 2011, they conducted such searches on 685,724 New Yorkers. The main rationale is to keep guns off the streets. Yet last year, they only found one firearm per two hundred searches. Mayor Bloomberg, who has overseen a 600 percent rise in these frisks, has cited the low number of confiscated firearms as proof that the program is working.
Predictably, the searches have disproportionately targeted blacks and Hispanics. According to the ACLU, police searches of young black men last year outnumbered the people of this demographic total who are living in the city -- 168,126 stop-and-frisks of black males aged 14 to 24 in 2011, compared to a local population of only 158,406.
Another troubling aspect involves the women stopped and frisked by male officers. Whereas with airport security, officials can only pat down those of the same gender, New York City's police officers face no such restriction. Women have accused police of sexualizing their searches. Twenty-two-year-old Crystal Pope complains that one early evening, police officers, claiming to be in pursuit of a rapist, asked for the IDs of her and other women at a bench near her home in Harlem Heights and proceded to search her. The scene she describes raises some serious concerns.
They tapped around the waistline of my jeans... They tapped the back pockets of my jeans, around my buttock. It was kind of disrespectful and degrading. It was uncalled-for. It made no sense. How are you going to stop three females when you are supposedly looking for a male rapist?
The main justification behind these searches is to disarm likely suspects, although it has become a general law-and-order measure, particularly to enforce gun laws. After the horrible Aurora, Colorado, shootings, Bloomberg said the United States should adopt more gun control nationwide but is this what he has in mind? Is this the type of society he wants to have?
Writing for the Wall Street Journal, conservative Heather MacDonald praises the stop-and-frisk policy as a prophylactic, applauding it and other tough-on-crime measures for fostering "New York's triumph over the lawlessness," which she calls "the greatest urban policy success of the last quarter-century." But any of her fellow conservatives who tout their unwavering support for the Second Amendment should object to any program whose main function is to prevent people from carrying guns. Liberals, on the other hand, should recognize the threat that policies such as Bloomberg's pose to civil liberties.
As for the constitutionality of stop-and-frisk, it all turns on the 1968 Supreme Court case Terry v. Ohio. Police can legally conduct a Terry search when they have a "reasonable suspicion" that the subject has committed a crime or is about to commit a crime. Do the New York police have legitimate cause to suspect between one and two thousand individuals of criminal behavior every day?
MacDonald argues that 680,000 searches based on reasonable suspicion are not extraordinarily high, when considering that "there were nearly 900,000 arrests and summons [sic] last year under the far more exacting standard of probable cause." That there was one summons or arrest for every ten New Yorkers should not settle our worries, however. A high number of these are drug arrests, and the drug war has notoriously lowered the threshold police have needed to overcome standards for reasonable search and detention. Moreover, many summonses presumably involve minor offenses like traffic violations.
Violent crime has indeed dropped in New York City, as well as in much of the rest of the country. However, it is hard to attribute this to any particular policy. Liberals often credit legal abortion, yet regions with minimal firearm restrictions have also seen crime decrease despite predictions. Conservatives credit the increased prison construction, yet have wrongly predicted that liberalized marijuana laws would augment crime rates. Community norms, civil culture, and private security probably have as much to do with crime patterns as anything else, but are rarely included in the analysis.
Notwithstanding, crime is still higher than it ought to be and we now see another sort of threat on the rise: The criminality of lawless police.
If your chances of being robbed have declined, but your chances of being stopped, harassed, or even brutalized by police have risen, are you better off? If the number of people stopped, frisked, arrested, imprisoned, beaten, and shot by police has risen, can it really be said that communities are safer?
Looking around our society, we see frightening trends: The militarization of police, officers disciplining children violently, family pets summarily shot in mistaken midnight raids, a hundred SWAT-style home invasions a day, and the largest per capita prison population on earth. Now, citizens of America's most famous city must contend with fears of being stopped, forced to produce documentation, and potentially groped or otherwise harassed without warrant.
The American colonists of the late eighteenth century fought a revolution over less.
Arguing over the effect that firearm restrictions have on crime is certainly important, but there is an even more critical debate involved in Bloomberg's stop-and-frisk policies: A question of basic American values.What kind of society do we want to live in? A police state is not my answer and I would like to believe it isn't the preference of the majority of the American public. However, in that case, we must tread lightly- if we are not there yet, we are certainly heading that way.
and a bunch of histrionic silliness on this site. Police can stop, frisk, and kill anyone they want...really, seriously really?
but they do...it's like the grey area of 'hate crime'......I'm not saying all police do this...but legislation walks the grey line of making police the enemy and the plebs the enemies...
guess what?....all sheople....
this is why I am not a police officer...
at one time I contemplated state trooper and being a truck driver....they both fell to the bottom of the list eventually...
idealistic ideas get quickly squashed....I guess the middle ground was nursing
dealing with human crap(not disrespectfully) with a changing scenery(there ain't nuthin' new under the sun)
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