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- To the people who seem to think any violation of civil rights is perfectly okay if it lowers crime ...
The vast majority of crimes are committed by men. Do you think that is sufficient to justify the police constantly stopping and frisking any and all males? Are you willing to have your dad, brother, husband, sons and nephews roughed up by the NYPD on a regular basis for no other reason than their gender?
If that's not a good enough reason, neither is race or ethnicity.
- This has nothing to do with anyone's rights being infringed. Anyone who insists on drinking 32 ounces can just order two 16-ounce drinks. It has to do with changing the default. Corporations' best interests are served when they serve us twice as much empty calories. Consumers' best interests are not.
I'm not a Bloomberg fan but he's right on this one.
- Dolan already had zero credibility, but now he's gone deep in negative territory. Payoffs to pedophile predators who are kicked out of the church gravy train but NOTHING to protect the children?
Anyone who continues to give their money to the Catholic church after reading that this is how they use it, please know you are enabling a criminal conspiracy.
- Here's what I'd like to know. If you completely ignored the bias intimidation convction, what is the average sentence given to a person who's convicted of the other fourteen crimes -- invasion of privacy, interfering with a witness and with evidence, etc.? Because my sense is that this sentence was very, very light.
- I would like to completely leave to one side both Clementi's suicide and Ravi's attitude about gays.
For the actual crimes Ravi committed and was convicted of -- fifteen felony counts including destroying evidence and invasion of privacy -- he should have received a more time than this.
30 days is a slap on the wrist, and an insult to the legal concept of privacy rights. We should ALL be outraged, regardless of sexual preference or ideas about sexual preference.
- Listening right now. Wow, this guy comes across pompous.
- Could reporters please start calling Bloomberg, Kelly, and the NYPD on their lies?
Other cities that don't stop-and-frisk all have the same reductions in crime rate. Hence, stop-and-frisk is NOT the reason for it. (Most probably it's the ebbing of the crack epidemic.)
Even if it were, though, it would still be just as unconstitutional and just as racist and just as abusive. Our country's laws are based on a presumption of innocence.
The police shouldn't be allowed to repeatedly stop you, slam you to the ground, and frisk you because you are the similar color, age, gender, or anything else similar to other people who've committed crimes. It's just not a sufficient reason.
- Bloomberg and Kelly's stop-and-frisk is demonstrably ineffective -- other cities, who don't practice it, have comparable crime rate improvements in the same timeframe.
But even if it were effective, it would still be unconstitutional. Men commit the vast majority of crimes, but that doesn't make it right for the police to repeatedly, randomly stop and frisk you because you're male. Or young. Or black.
(And "john from office"'s comment is racist and unworthy of this site.)
- I wish a reporter would investigate to whose campaigns Fresh Direct and its CEO Jason Ackerman are donating money. Has he given money to New York City politicians, who've basically paid him back x100 with our tax dollars?
It was absolutely ridiculous to hand over almost $130 million dollars because Ackerman threatened to move FD to New Jersey. He would never, ever have been willing to pay the truck tolls to cross into NYC to deliver.
This was simply a payoff.
I used to be a FD regular, but no more. Join the boycott!
- Note to Stephen Nessen: please run a simple spell- and grammar-check on your writing before posting it. There are at least five obvious errors in this piece as of 5:25PM. Reflects very badly on WNYC.
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