Experts like former police officer Jon Shane said it’s a bad idea that could lead to a spike in crime.
“You always have to be answerable for your behavior and unchecked behavior, we know, leads to larger things and those things manifest themselves in violent crime and property crime, like auto theft and burglary, and things like that,” said Shane, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
“I absolutely think they have to go through the justice system before we just boot people out and get rid of them for space,” Upper West Side resident Elizabeth Miller added.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
NYPD Braton Considering Amnesty To 1.2 Million Low-Level Offenders
"Wary Of Police-Community Relations, City Council Says Idea Deserves Consideration"
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Well, since the police are not allowed to police anymore or are vilified for it when they do their job, they might as well let the vermin out.
After all, isn't this what everyone has been agitating about. The mean mean police unfairly stopping criminals or people about to commit crimes?
Why bother anymore would be my attitude as a law enforcement officer.
BTW: people in NYC....you should be armed because you HAVE been forewarned.
Back to the Dinkins era!
Can't walk down the street without being harassed or assaulted.
Fortunately, I no longer live in NYC.
This is reverse broken windows. It was the broken windows approach to policing - penalize the small misdemeanor stuff and you get fewer felonies - that turned NYC from crime central into the safest large city in the country. Apparently the new regimen is if it ain't broke you gotta fix it.
Bratton has to know this won't work. Must be his ambition to remain Commissioner outweighs doing the right thing and telling DeBlasio to shove it.
This is the open windows approach. Open the windows and let the skells out.
Open the windows to let the skells burglarize your house.
Hopefully, when they get out, they can start killing each other.
Just like the city that smells like shit and let's the shit run through the streets, so they will let 1.2 million other shits run rampant in the streets to.
Troop, run.
1.2 million? Really? That sounds a bit inflated to me.
Why not just take the laws off the books, if you refuse to enforce them?
Someone broke the window of my brother's van and took my daughter's purse from the car.
I was thinking today: The person/people who did it probably don't even think of themselves as criminals.
What I mean is... someone who plans a crime, plans a robbery, they know they're criminals. But that "small" stuff? It's just... casual. Like, why not? It's just what you do, not who you *are*. Right? And when the cops stop you or you get arrested... it's just harassment, right?
Thinking about that bugged me. I think that I actually think better of the "big" criminal than the casual criminal who thinks he's a good guy. The guy who says to himself, I have decided to live off of burglaring vs. the thug who thinks of himself as maybe getting some of his own back.
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