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"In NYC, mayor Bill de Blasio has cut the police budget, halted the hiring of more officers, and disbanded the NYPD’s plain-clothes ‘anti-crime’ unit, credited with taking thousands of illegal guns off the street.
This, Moskos says, has meant a withdrawal of police from high-crime areas that has sent violence in the city skyrocketing. In June alone, 270 people were shot in the city, a 154 per cent increase on the previous year
The crime drop experienced across America in the 1990s was particularly pronounced in New York. In 2019, there were 319 murders in the city, marking an 86 per cent decline from 1990.
‘The NYPD is arguably the best police department America has ever seen. But we have to dismantle it, because, you see, a cop killed a man in Minnesota. It just makes no sense to me.’
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For Moskos, it seems, the anti-police movements of today fit into this tradition of progressive paternalism, of well-meaning white reformers pushing their morality and ideological experiments on to the poor.
‘It’s a bunch of white progressives telling black people that they don’t need police’, he tells me. ‘They could try it in their neighborhood first, but they don’t want to do that.’
‘Before I would just say it’s paternalistic or wrong. Now I’m just saying this is racist. If you’re white and telling other neighbourhoods they don’t need police, and they’re getting killed... it’s horrible.’
‘We have young white people yelling at older black cops and screaming that they’re racist’, Moskos goes on, nodding to some of the more absurd viral moments of the recent protests. ‘I mean, the protests were whiter than the police department.’"
If you are a loser and you crave attention and validation from others, the most low-cost way to seem better than you are is to become the most radical version of what is considered morally correct in your social circle, so that you can reproach other people and feel better about yourself through small conflicts.
BLM has attracted a group of lost young people, who seek a new moral ground -- in addition to veganism, PETA, transgenders etc (which are all well-meaning movements per se, but get ruined from these "secondary" parasite followers).
- "The NYPD is arguably the best police department America has ever seen"
lol i can tell this is bias already.pango - the same department that stop and frisk harass practically every minority on the street.pango
- lol @ biasGnash
- Well, Moskos is former Baltimore copdrgs
- "we're the best!" lol the same way every rapper is the toughest mother fucker according to them self.pango
- "The NYPD is arguably the best police department America has ever seen"