THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 25, 2021 AT 6:59 PM
Paul Plante says:
And while we are on the subject of Progressive “police reform” in America, which term is shorthand for emasculating the police to empower the criminals so they can feel better about themselves and all warm and squishy inside as a result, knowing that the police have to abase themselves before the criminals or risk getting fired or worse, incarcerated, I would like to take these words of wisdom from the immortal Dr. Martin L. King, who should be an inspiration to us all, that “(E)ducation must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction,” and “(T)he function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically,” and apply them to the Albany, New York Times Union story “Albany police: 2 dead, 5 injured in two shooting incidents a few hours apart” by Steve Barnes on May 22, 2021, where we had Councilman Jahmel K. Robinson of Albany, New York’s Fifth Ward saying that gun violence in Albany, New York, a sanctuary city where criminals are coddled and the police are under siege, is “symptomatic of systemic issues” in order to enable us to sift and weigh the evidence to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction by thinking intensively and critically, something I am quite good at, actually, having been educated from the time I was young to employ critical thinking in all phases of my life, by going after that word “systemic” that the Progressives and Black folks like to use, so that quite literally, we are daily barraged by the word, as compared to when I was young, and the word was never heard, because there was no need for it.
For an example of how I understand the word “systemic,” let us go to a Reuters article entitled “Special Report: U.S. military’s new housing plagued by construction flaws” by M.B. Pell and Deborah Nelson on 23 December 2018, where we have as follows:
TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Oklahoma (Reuters) – Here, near the heart of America’s “Tornado Alley,” an Air Force contractor built 398 new homes less than a decade ago, bankrolled as part of the U.S. government’s vow of safe shelter for the men and women who serve.
Today the collection of cookie-cutter duplexes is showing declines more typical of aged and neglected housing.
Last spring, just six years after landlord Balfour Beatty Communities finished construction, the company was forced to start replacing every foot of water line in each house to fix systemic plumbing failures.
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Systemic plumbing failures, people.
Across the system.
All inclusive.
So, is Jahmel Robinson then saying that gun violence in Albany, New York is symptomatic of systemic plumbing failures, which is certainly a systemic issue, and I suppose a politician like Jahmel could make a case the two are connected – systemic plumbing failures drive the Black folks crazy so they go out and gun down each other in cold blood as a result.
It’s a stretch in my mind, but then, I am not a politician like Jahmel.
But wait, let us not be hasty and attribute gun violence by the lawless savages in Albany, New York to bad plumbing when we have Lawrence H. Summers, who worked in the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama telling us how to use the word “systemic” in the Marketwatch story “Opinion: Setting the record straight on secular stagnation” by Lawrence H. Summers, published Sept 6, 2018, as follows:
It is also important to recall that we pursued the 2000 legislation not because we wanted to deregulate for its own sake, but rather to remove what the career lawyers at the Treasury, the Fed, and the Securities and Exchange Commission saw as systemic risk arising from legal uncertainty surrounding derivatives contracts.
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Now, again, people, there is how I understand the use of the word “systemic,” meaning infecting a whole system.
So is that what is causing gun violence in Albany?
Or is gun violence in Albany really just caused by violent savages armed with guns?
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THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
Re: THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 26, 2021 AT 6:48 PM
Paul Plante says:
And taking a real good look at how Progressive “police reform” is working out for Democratic Socialist mayor Kathy Sheehan of the criminal sanctuary city of Albany, New York where the BLACK LIVES MATTER banner flies high above city hall to proclaim it as BLACK LIVES MATTER turf, this while we continue to apply the wisdom of the immortal Dr. Martin L. King that “(E)ducation must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction,” and “(T)he function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically” to the Albany, New York Times Union story “Albany police: 2 dead, 5 injured in two shooting incidents a few hours apart” by Steve Barnes on May 22, 2021, where we had Councilman Jahmel K. Robinson of Albany, New York’s Fifth Ward saying that gun violence in Albany, New York, a sanctuary city where criminals are coddled and the police are under siege, is “symptomatic of systemic issues” in order to enable us to sift and weigh the evidence to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction by thinking intensively and critically, let us go to an Albany, New York Times Union story entitled “Shaker High student killed in Albany gunfire – Tenth-grader Destiny Greene’s killing – the city’s ninth this year – prompts police chief to ask other police agencies for help” by Pete DeMola, Rachel Silberstein and Robert Gavin on May 25, 2021, to wit:
ALBANY — The 15-year-old high school student killed in a shooting Monday night — the city’s ninth homicide victim this year — died after men opened fire on the car she and three others were sitting in on Wilbur Street, police said.
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And there, people, is exactly what Jahmel is talking about when he says gun violence by the lawless savages in Albany, New York, a sanctuary city where criminals are coddled and the police are under siege, is “symptomatic of systemic issues,” which the criminal sanctuary city of Albany, New York has a plethora of, those “systemic issues” that allow these lawless savages in Albany to run amuck, which are systemic of corrupt and inept government more than anything, which takes us back to the story, as follows:
Destiny Greene was with two adults and another child for what police Chief Eric Hawkins described as a social media meet-up when they had a confrontation with two or three men who opened fire on the vehicle.
Authorities said the four were on Wilbur Street to complete a transaction on worked out Facebook Marketplace when the gunshots hit the car.
The girl, who lived in Colonie and attended Shaker High, was driven to Albany Memorial Hospital where she died.
She was the third person gunned down in Albany since Friday.
Shot just blocks from the governor’s mansion, Destiny’s death brought a vow to increase police patrols as the city confronts a surge of violence that threatens to surpass last summers startling increase in violence that pushed Albany toward 15 homicides.
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Now, there is something in a criminal sanctuary city where they really want the police defunded and emasculated – now they want more police patrols, which will have them screeching about police brutality if and when the police ever find the savages who shot that girl in cold blood and go to arrest them.
Getting back to the story, it goes on as follows:
Hawkins says he’s now working with Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple and the State Police to bolster patrols.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo later said his administration was prepared to send in more troopers to help quell the violence.
“We will have a significant increase in police presence,” Hawkins said.
While the logistics are still being worked out, Hawkins envisions several configurations, including pairing city police with detectives, and outside law enforcement performing solo patrols.
“Right now, we’re working out exactly (what) this is going to look like,” Hawkins said.
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What a cluster****!
Getting back to that story of what happens when Progressives involve themselves with “police reform,” which is really “police gelding,” we have:
District Attorney David Soares noted the dramatic spike in fatalities.
Most of the recent violence, he said, involve retaliatory, street-level crimes.
end quotes
Most of the recent violence in Albany, New York is caused by tribal warfare between various tribes of savages.
Getting back to the story of how well Progressive “police reform” is working out in Albany, New York where mayor Kathy Sheehan is a Biden Elector, we have:
“Albany is an aggressive city where vulnerable children and families are having to live in unacceptable conditions,” he said.
“Bullets have flown daily this week, with a 600 percent increase in fatalities compared to last year’s rate.”
Hawkins said his department has taken 40 guns off the streets this year, eclipsing last year’s pace.
Mayor Kathy Sheehan said she has spoken with Acting U.S. Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon to request federal action on guns spreading in the city.
“Guns are coming into the community from somewhere,” she said.
end quotes
Now, that is a very profound statement, people, which again takes us back to that sad story, to wit:
Greene is the latest shooting victim in Albany, which is in the midst of a rash of violence that has so far killed in people in less than five months.
And while homicides in many U.S. cities have increased significantly over the last year, Albany is near a record rate while places like New York City are still far off the pace of the early 1990s, when killings regularly topped 1,900 a year, far ahead of last year’s 462 homicides.
The spate of violence comes as the Albany, like other localities, is attempting to balance calls to “defund” the police by activists who want more funds for community resources and adhere to calls from community residents who want more police to bolster public safety.
Hawkins said he consistently hears people want to see a bolstered police presence in the neighborhoods paired with a great sense of respect.
“That balance is making sure we give people in Albany what they want, which is an increased presence,” Hawkins said.
“But we need to make sure we do it in a way in which they feel respected by the police, know that they’re valued, and know that the police department is transparent and open about activities in the neighborhood and holding ourselves accountable if something is not done right.”
Officials need to convey that that presence isn’t seen as an occupying force, Sheehan said, and involves deeper engagements with residents of violence-prone neighborhoods that relies on more than just officers simply sitting in their patrol cars.
However, budget shortfalls as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have resulted in fewer officers with both the Albany Police Department and the county Sheriff’s Office, Sheehan said.
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Not to mention an experienced detective sergeant who resigned after Kathy Sheehan sicced internal affairs on him for giving testimony in an arbitration hearing where an officer illegally fired by Sheehan in response to calls from the howling mob for his head was reinstated because the sergeant exposed Sheehan’s serious blunder, which resulted in retaliation by the mayor and his subsequent retirement.
How to go, mayor Kathy!
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Paul Plante says:
And taking a real good look at how Progressive “police reform” is working out for Democratic Socialist mayor Kathy Sheehan of the criminal sanctuary city of Albany, New York where the BLACK LIVES MATTER banner flies high above city hall to proclaim it as BLACK LIVES MATTER turf, this while we continue to apply the wisdom of the immortal Dr. Martin L. King that “(E)ducation must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction,” and “(T)he function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically” to the Albany, New York Times Union story “Albany police: 2 dead, 5 injured in two shooting incidents a few hours apart” by Steve Barnes on May 22, 2021, where we had Councilman Jahmel K. Robinson of Albany, New York’s Fifth Ward saying that gun violence in Albany, New York, a sanctuary city where criminals are coddled and the police are under siege, is “symptomatic of systemic issues” in order to enable us to sift and weigh the evidence to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction by thinking intensively and critically, let us go to an Albany, New York Times Union story entitled “Shaker High student killed in Albany gunfire – Tenth-grader Destiny Greene’s killing – the city’s ninth this year – prompts police chief to ask other police agencies for help” by Pete DeMola, Rachel Silberstein and Robert Gavin on May 25, 2021, to wit:
ALBANY — The 15-year-old high school student killed in a shooting Monday night — the city’s ninth homicide victim this year — died after men opened fire on the car she and three others were sitting in on Wilbur Street, police said.
end quotes
And there, people, is exactly what Jahmel is talking about when he says gun violence by the lawless savages in Albany, New York, a sanctuary city where criminals are coddled and the police are under siege, is “symptomatic of systemic issues,” which the criminal sanctuary city of Albany, New York has a plethora of, those “systemic issues” that allow these lawless savages in Albany to run amuck, which are systemic of corrupt and inept government more than anything, which takes us back to the story, as follows:
Destiny Greene was with two adults and another child for what police Chief Eric Hawkins described as a social media meet-up when they had a confrontation with two or three men who opened fire on the vehicle.
Authorities said the four were on Wilbur Street to complete a transaction on worked out Facebook Marketplace when the gunshots hit the car.
The girl, who lived in Colonie and attended Shaker High, was driven to Albany Memorial Hospital where she died.
She was the third person gunned down in Albany since Friday.
Shot just blocks from the governor’s mansion, Destiny’s death brought a vow to increase police patrols as the city confronts a surge of violence that threatens to surpass last summers startling increase in violence that pushed Albany toward 15 homicides.
end quotes
Now, there is something in a criminal sanctuary city where they really want the police defunded and emasculated – now they want more police patrols, which will have them screeching about police brutality if and when the police ever find the savages who shot that girl in cold blood and go to arrest them.
Getting back to the story, it goes on as follows:
Hawkins says he’s now working with Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple and the State Police to bolster patrols.
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo later said his administration was prepared to send in more troopers to help quell the violence.
“We will have a significant increase in police presence,” Hawkins said.
While the logistics are still being worked out, Hawkins envisions several configurations, including pairing city police with detectives, and outside law enforcement performing solo patrols.
“Right now, we’re working out exactly (what) this is going to look like,” Hawkins said.
end quotes
What a cluster****!
Getting back to that story of what happens when Progressives involve themselves with “police reform,” which is really “police gelding,” we have:
District Attorney David Soares noted the dramatic spike in fatalities.
Most of the recent violence, he said, involve retaliatory, street-level crimes.
end quotes
Most of the recent violence in Albany, New York is caused by tribal warfare between various tribes of savages.
Getting back to the story of how well Progressive “police reform” is working out in Albany, New York where mayor Kathy Sheehan is a Biden Elector, we have:
“Albany is an aggressive city where vulnerable children and families are having to live in unacceptable conditions,” he said.
“Bullets have flown daily this week, with a 600 percent increase in fatalities compared to last year’s rate.”
Hawkins said his department has taken 40 guns off the streets this year, eclipsing last year’s pace.
Mayor Kathy Sheehan said she has spoken with Acting U.S. Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon to request federal action on guns spreading in the city.
“Guns are coming into the community from somewhere,” she said.
end quotes
Now, that is a very profound statement, people, which again takes us back to that sad story, to wit:
Greene is the latest shooting victim in Albany, which is in the midst of a rash of violence that has so far killed in people in less than five months.
And while homicides in many U.S. cities have increased significantly over the last year, Albany is near a record rate while places like New York City are still far off the pace of the early 1990s, when killings regularly topped 1,900 a year, far ahead of last year’s 462 homicides.
The spate of violence comes as the Albany, like other localities, is attempting to balance calls to “defund” the police by activists who want more funds for community resources and adhere to calls from community residents who want more police to bolster public safety.
Hawkins said he consistently hears people want to see a bolstered police presence in the neighborhoods paired with a great sense of respect.
“That balance is making sure we give people in Albany what they want, which is an increased presence,” Hawkins said.
“But we need to make sure we do it in a way in which they feel respected by the police, know that they’re valued, and know that the police department is transparent and open about activities in the neighborhood and holding ourselves accountable if something is not done right.”
Officials need to convey that that presence isn’t seen as an occupying force, Sheehan said, and involves deeper engagements with residents of violence-prone neighborhoods that relies on more than just officers simply sitting in their patrol cars.
However, budget shortfalls as a result of the coronavirus pandemic have resulted in fewer officers with both the Albany Police Department and the county Sheriff’s Office, Sheehan said.
end quotes
Not to mention an experienced detective sergeant who resigned after Kathy Sheehan sicced internal affairs on him for giving testimony in an arbitration hearing where an officer illegally fired by Sheehan in response to calls from the howling mob for his head was reinstated because the sergeant exposed Sheehan’s serious blunder, which resulted in retaliation by the mayor and his subsequent retirement.
How to go, mayor Kathy!
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Re: THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 27, 2021 AT 9:24 PM
Paul Plante says:
And as we witness the results of Progressive “police reform” in the criminal sanctuary city of Albany, New York, the capital of the state that has been made into BLACK LIVES MATTER turf by Democratic Socialist mayor and Biden Elector Kathy Sheehan, to see where actual police reform began in that city before Kathy Sheehan and the Applyers Junto or Applyers Gang came along to swing the pendulum back in favor of the lawless savages that now rule the streets of that pathetic city, let us go back to a case study of reform of the Albany Police Department conducted as a NATIONAL COPS EVALUATION ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE CASE STUDY: Albany, New York by David Thacher, Research Associate, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University for the Urban League, where we have the following information to consider, to wit:
I. THE ALBANY POLICE DEPARTMENT THROUGH 1994
II. THE EVOLUTION OF COMMUNITY POLICING IN ALBANY
3. Reforming the APD
4. A Focus on Quality-of-Life
If decentralization and problem-solving were one strand of the APD’s community policing efforts, a second and equally important strand centered on quality of life enforcement.
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Quality of life enforcement, people – let us keep that term in mind, as that is the root cause of all the problems in Albany today – those who are and were the cause of a lack of quality of life for others have gained the ascendant in Albany, New York, and it is they who now have the backing of the office of the mayor, and here, to see the source of their political power, which does come essentially from the muzzle of a gun, let us go back for a moment to a Newsweek article entitled “BLM Leader: We’ll ‘Burn’ the System Down If U.S. Won’t Give Us What We Want” by Meghan Roos on 6/25/20, where we had a real bad-ass BLACK LIVES MATTER dude named Hawk Newsome discussing the use of mob violence to achieve political goals in our times today, to wit:
A leader of Black Lives Matter’s New York chapter on Wednesday said the movement was prepared to “burn down this system” if the U.S. does not work with participants to enact real change.
“If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it,” said Hawk Newsome, chairman of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, during an interview with Fox News.
“This country is built upon violence,” Newsome said, pointing to the American Revolution and modern American diplomacy as examples.
“The moment people start destroying property, now cops can be fired automatically.”
“What is this country rewarding?”
“What behavior is it listening to?”
“Obviously not marching,” Newsome said.
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Obviously not marching indeed, people!
The moment people in Albany, New York started destroying property in Albany, now cops can be fired automatically, so what is Albany rewarding, what behavior is it listening to?
You’re right, people – the threat of further violence, which BLACK LIVES MATTER has no qualms whatsoever about dishing out, which has Kathy Sheehan crapping in her pants and down on her knees in submission to BLACK LIVES MATTER, which submission in turn has empowered the lawless savages in Albany who revel in violence to get their kicks, as savages are wont to do, which takes us back to the police study, to wit:
This shift in priorities was a dramatic one for the APD: As noted earlier, the department has had a long tradition of what James Q. Wilson called a “watchman” style of policing, in which officers on patrol paid little attention to minor violations like traffic offenses, gambling, and other misdemeanors.
As one department veteran puts it: “Twenty years ago, if you brought that stuff into the station house — if you arrested somebody, say, for an open container — people would have said, ‘Get out of here.'”
“‘We’re not going to book this guy on a charge like that.’”
One APD manager attributes this sentiment directly to the desires of upper management, explaining: “I don’t want to throw rocks, but with the command staff that was here before, nobody cared [about quality of life offenses].”
But the advent of community policing began to change this situation markedly.
As already described, early training for the community outreach unit and later for the sector officers and the directed patrol unit began to stress the importance of quality-of-life offenses.
Tuffey reiterated this message with his command staff, who in turn took it to their subordinates to emphasize with patrol officers.
One crucial link seems to have been with the Sergeants, who were addressed as a group by the command staff and told that what had long been considered “low-level” offenses should in fact be treated seriously.
Sergeants, in turn, have repeatedly stressed that message at roll calls and sector meetings for the patrol force.
“I’m trying to convey that to them, that all these things all add up to dissatisfaction,” one APD supervisor explains.
“The poor man didn’t get a night’s sleep because somebody was waking him up with their boom box in the middle of the night.”
“And then he goes outside to get his paper and he steps in a pile of dog poop.”
“And then he comes out and his car has been vandalized.”
This message about the seriousness of “low-level” violations came directly from Albany’s political leadership — most notably Jennings’s two campaigns for mayor, when he made quality of life a major theme.
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My goodness, people – look at that!
It wasn’t the Albany Police who cooked up this “quality of life” stuff on their own – the message about the seriousness of “low-level” violations came directly from Albany’s political leadership.
And now, Albany’s new Progressive political “leadership” is swinging the pendulum the other way, by being concerned about quality of the life of the criminals, which takes us back to the study, to wit:
“Basic policing is getting to know the community [and] dealing with issues that are quality of life,” Jennings explains.
“Then hopefully the larger crimes will dissipate and diminish.”
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Except they obviously haven’t.
Getting back to the study:
Once in office, Jennings’s very public pronouncements on the subject, his high-profile tours of some of Albany’s most deteriorated neighborhoods (sometimes accompanied by Tuffey), and his specific directions to department heads all apparently fed a growing emphasis on quality-of-life issues not just in the police department, but in many Albany agencies.
More general public sentiment also pushed the APD to re-emphasize quality-of-life problems.
A few high-profile incidents, like a shooting associated with a craps game gone bad, created some public pressure to take formerly neglected categories of crime seriously, as some city residents began to believe that minor violations could escalate into serious crime.
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And hey, people, now there is a real radical thought, alright – some city residents began to believe that minor violations could escalate into serious crime.
And guess what – thanks to Kathy Sheehan and the Applyrs Gang, the fears of those city residents have come true, and here we go back to a Times Union story entitled “Arbitrator’s exoneration of Albany officer draws Sheehan’s ire – Mayor writes letter criticizing ‘racially biased conclusions’ in First St. case” by Steve Hughes on March 16, 2021 about an independent arbitrator exonerating city police officer Matthew Seeber of all charges for his role in an incident on March 2019 on First Street after he was fired by Kathy Sheehan who was caving in to demands of the lawless howling mob for his head, where we have mayor Kathy defending the savages, as follows:
Sheehan took issue with Rabin’s general description of the surrounding neighborhood and the people in the home itself.
“One need only look to the first paragraph of the opinion to see he skipped the dog whistle and went right to clear bias and racial animus,” she wrote.
In the opening of his decision, based off six days of testimony from city police officers and department leaders, Rabin calls First Street a rough part of town and those inside 523 First St. “dangerous.”
“This was not simply a raucous college party, like many in the nearby neighborhood, or a book club celebrating its final meeting of the season.”
“No, these were dangerous criminals, including drug dealers, who had committed violent acts in the past…”
“Most of the participants were probably armed,” he wrote.
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Mayor Kathy calls those same people “good people.”
Getting back to the study, we have:
But as community policing brought police into greater contact with neighborhood groups, they simply began to hear about low-level offenses more often.
“A lot of those issues,” Tuffey explains, referring to concerns about quality-of-life, “we hear from community groups, whether it be CANA, Council of Area Neighborhood Associations [a citywide umbrella organization for Albany neighborhood groups]; Beverwick, which is part of Washington Park; Park South; or Mansion Hill.”
“That’s a big issue for them, [and] if it’s a big issue for them, then it’s our big issue.”
Finally, police themselves began to feel that it made sense to target these low-level offenses in order to get at their underlying goal of reducing serious crime.
In this vein, many Albany officers recite something like the “Broken Windows” theory to explain how left unchecked, low-level disorder can escalate into serious crime — and indeed, department training tried to make this link explicit, both through in-service sessions with officers and through the Citizen’s Academy for residents.
As explained by Commander William Bowen, who oversaw the department’s training division during the early months of community policing:
What we tried to do was to show the rank and file, the officers on the lowest level, that it was a partnership with the community to make life better [when we were] talking about quality of life issues.
You know, many times the officer would think . . . “That bag of garbage out on the street on a night that it doesn’t belong out there, that’s not a big deal.”
And we tried to show them that that was a big deal when it came to the overall philosophy of quality of life.
That is, if a place looks bad, it’s going to get bad — the broken window theory and that kind of thing.
Using a somewhat different logic, many officers also argue that enforcing misdemeanor laws can have a more direct relationship to the control of serious crime, for offenders stopped on minor violations often turn out to have signs of serious criminality like drugs, concealed weapons, outstanding warrants.
Finally, one Albany officer argues that by citing people on minor violations, police effectively alert the courts to a potential pattern: If police fail to write these citations, a first offense for robbery may look like a forgivable aberration, when in fact it is the culmination of years of unrecorded petty crime.
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There was one side of the pendulum swing.
And now, we are clearly over onto the other side as Progressive police reform undoes all that was done before to make Albany, New York a crime-free city with good quality of life for those who are not violent, lawless savages.
Which side would you rather be on?
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Paul Plante says:
And as we witness the results of Progressive “police reform” in the criminal sanctuary city of Albany, New York, the capital of the state that has been made into BLACK LIVES MATTER turf by Democratic Socialist mayor and Biden Elector Kathy Sheehan, to see where actual police reform began in that city before Kathy Sheehan and the Applyers Junto or Applyers Gang came along to swing the pendulum back in favor of the lawless savages that now rule the streets of that pathetic city, let us go back to a case study of reform of the Albany Police Department conducted as a NATIONAL COPS EVALUATION ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE CASE STUDY: Albany, New York by David Thacher, Research Associate, Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University for the Urban League, where we have the following information to consider, to wit:
I. THE ALBANY POLICE DEPARTMENT THROUGH 1994
II. THE EVOLUTION OF COMMUNITY POLICING IN ALBANY
3. Reforming the APD
4. A Focus on Quality-of-Life
If decentralization and problem-solving were one strand of the APD’s community policing efforts, a second and equally important strand centered on quality of life enforcement.
end quotes
Quality of life enforcement, people – let us keep that term in mind, as that is the root cause of all the problems in Albany today – those who are and were the cause of a lack of quality of life for others have gained the ascendant in Albany, New York, and it is they who now have the backing of the office of the mayor, and here, to see the source of their political power, which does come essentially from the muzzle of a gun, let us go back for a moment to a Newsweek article entitled “BLM Leader: We’ll ‘Burn’ the System Down If U.S. Won’t Give Us What We Want” by Meghan Roos on 6/25/20, where we had a real bad-ass BLACK LIVES MATTER dude named Hawk Newsome discussing the use of mob violence to achieve political goals in our times today, to wit:
A leader of Black Lives Matter’s New York chapter on Wednesday said the movement was prepared to “burn down this system” if the U.S. does not work with participants to enact real change.
“If this country doesn’t give us what we want, then we will burn down this system and replace it,” said Hawk Newsome, chairman of Black Lives Matter of Greater New York, during an interview with Fox News.
“This country is built upon violence,” Newsome said, pointing to the American Revolution and modern American diplomacy as examples.
“The moment people start destroying property, now cops can be fired automatically.”
“What is this country rewarding?”
“What behavior is it listening to?”
“Obviously not marching,” Newsome said.
end quotes
Obviously not marching indeed, people!
The moment people in Albany, New York started destroying property in Albany, now cops can be fired automatically, so what is Albany rewarding, what behavior is it listening to?
You’re right, people – the threat of further violence, which BLACK LIVES MATTER has no qualms whatsoever about dishing out, which has Kathy Sheehan crapping in her pants and down on her knees in submission to BLACK LIVES MATTER, which submission in turn has empowered the lawless savages in Albany who revel in violence to get their kicks, as savages are wont to do, which takes us back to the police study, to wit:
This shift in priorities was a dramatic one for the APD: As noted earlier, the department has had a long tradition of what James Q. Wilson called a “watchman” style of policing, in which officers on patrol paid little attention to minor violations like traffic offenses, gambling, and other misdemeanors.
As one department veteran puts it: “Twenty years ago, if you brought that stuff into the station house — if you arrested somebody, say, for an open container — people would have said, ‘Get out of here.'”
“‘We’re not going to book this guy on a charge like that.’”
One APD manager attributes this sentiment directly to the desires of upper management, explaining: “I don’t want to throw rocks, but with the command staff that was here before, nobody cared [about quality of life offenses].”
But the advent of community policing began to change this situation markedly.
As already described, early training for the community outreach unit and later for the sector officers and the directed patrol unit began to stress the importance of quality-of-life offenses.
Tuffey reiterated this message with his command staff, who in turn took it to their subordinates to emphasize with patrol officers.
One crucial link seems to have been with the Sergeants, who were addressed as a group by the command staff and told that what had long been considered “low-level” offenses should in fact be treated seriously.
Sergeants, in turn, have repeatedly stressed that message at roll calls and sector meetings for the patrol force.
“I’m trying to convey that to them, that all these things all add up to dissatisfaction,” one APD supervisor explains.
“The poor man didn’t get a night’s sleep because somebody was waking him up with their boom box in the middle of the night.”
“And then he goes outside to get his paper and he steps in a pile of dog poop.”
“And then he comes out and his car has been vandalized.”
This message about the seriousness of “low-level” violations came directly from Albany’s political leadership — most notably Jennings’s two campaigns for mayor, when he made quality of life a major theme.
end quotes
My goodness, people – look at that!
It wasn’t the Albany Police who cooked up this “quality of life” stuff on their own – the message about the seriousness of “low-level” violations came directly from Albany’s political leadership.
And now, Albany’s new Progressive political “leadership” is swinging the pendulum the other way, by being concerned about quality of the life of the criminals, which takes us back to the study, to wit:
“Basic policing is getting to know the community [and] dealing with issues that are quality of life,” Jennings explains.
“Then hopefully the larger crimes will dissipate and diminish.”
end quotes
Except they obviously haven’t.
Getting back to the study:
Once in office, Jennings’s very public pronouncements on the subject, his high-profile tours of some of Albany’s most deteriorated neighborhoods (sometimes accompanied by Tuffey), and his specific directions to department heads all apparently fed a growing emphasis on quality-of-life issues not just in the police department, but in many Albany agencies.
More general public sentiment also pushed the APD to re-emphasize quality-of-life problems.
A few high-profile incidents, like a shooting associated with a craps game gone bad, created some public pressure to take formerly neglected categories of crime seriously, as some city residents began to believe that minor violations could escalate into serious crime.
end quotes
And hey, people, now there is a real radical thought, alright – some city residents began to believe that minor violations could escalate into serious crime.
And guess what – thanks to Kathy Sheehan and the Applyrs Gang, the fears of those city residents have come true, and here we go back to a Times Union story entitled “Arbitrator’s exoneration of Albany officer draws Sheehan’s ire – Mayor writes letter criticizing ‘racially biased conclusions’ in First St. case” by Steve Hughes on March 16, 2021 about an independent arbitrator exonerating city police officer Matthew Seeber of all charges for his role in an incident on March 2019 on First Street after he was fired by Kathy Sheehan who was caving in to demands of the lawless howling mob for his head, where we have mayor Kathy defending the savages, as follows:
Sheehan took issue with Rabin’s general description of the surrounding neighborhood and the people in the home itself.
“One need only look to the first paragraph of the opinion to see he skipped the dog whistle and went right to clear bias and racial animus,” she wrote.
In the opening of his decision, based off six days of testimony from city police officers and department leaders, Rabin calls First Street a rough part of town and those inside 523 First St. “dangerous.”
“This was not simply a raucous college party, like many in the nearby neighborhood, or a book club celebrating its final meeting of the season.”
“No, these were dangerous criminals, including drug dealers, who had committed violent acts in the past…”
“Most of the participants were probably armed,” he wrote.
end quotes
Mayor Kathy calls those same people “good people.”
Getting back to the study, we have:
But as community policing brought police into greater contact with neighborhood groups, they simply began to hear about low-level offenses more often.
“A lot of those issues,” Tuffey explains, referring to concerns about quality-of-life, “we hear from community groups, whether it be CANA, Council of Area Neighborhood Associations [a citywide umbrella organization for Albany neighborhood groups]; Beverwick, which is part of Washington Park; Park South; or Mansion Hill.”
“That’s a big issue for them, [and] if it’s a big issue for them, then it’s our big issue.”
Finally, police themselves began to feel that it made sense to target these low-level offenses in order to get at their underlying goal of reducing serious crime.
In this vein, many Albany officers recite something like the “Broken Windows” theory to explain how left unchecked, low-level disorder can escalate into serious crime — and indeed, department training tried to make this link explicit, both through in-service sessions with officers and through the Citizen’s Academy for residents.
As explained by Commander William Bowen, who oversaw the department’s training division during the early months of community policing:
What we tried to do was to show the rank and file, the officers on the lowest level, that it was a partnership with the community to make life better [when we were] talking about quality of life issues.
You know, many times the officer would think . . . “That bag of garbage out on the street on a night that it doesn’t belong out there, that’s not a big deal.”
And we tried to show them that that was a big deal when it came to the overall philosophy of quality of life.
That is, if a place looks bad, it’s going to get bad — the broken window theory and that kind of thing.
Using a somewhat different logic, many officers also argue that enforcing misdemeanor laws can have a more direct relationship to the control of serious crime, for offenders stopped on minor violations often turn out to have signs of serious criminality like drugs, concealed weapons, outstanding warrants.
Finally, one Albany officer argues that by citing people on minor violations, police effectively alert the courts to a potential pattern: If police fail to write these citations, a first offense for robbery may look like a forgivable aberration, when in fact it is the culmination of years of unrecorded petty crime.
end quotes
There was one side of the pendulum swing.
And now, we are clearly over onto the other side as Progressive police reform undoes all that was done before to make Albany, New York a crime-free city with good quality of life for those who are not violent, lawless savages.
Which side would you rather be on?
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Re: THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 28, 2021 AT 8:47 PM
Paul Plante says:
And here I cannot pass up a story from Fox News that just came out entitled “Atlanta ‘defund the police’ backer has car stolen — by kids in broad daylight: reports” by David Aaro on 27 May 2021, to wit:
An Atlanta city councilman – who is aiming to be the city’s next mayor – had his car stolen by children in broad daylight Wednesday, according to reports.
Councilman Antonio Brown was attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony at an event in northeast Atlanta around noon when at least four kids jumped into his car and took off, FOX 5 of Atlanta reported.
“You don’t immediately think, ‘Oh, these kids are going to steal my car,’” Brown said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The incident occurred amid a recent crime wave in the city.
end quotes
Yes, people, it is really the police who are the problem, not the criminals, so let us punish the police by getting rid of them and all will finally be right in the world again, at least according to the Progressives like this Antonio Brown dude who is himself under indictment on federal fraud charges related to alleged incidents that occurred in the years prior to him winning the council seat in 2019, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which is probably as good a reason as any to him to defund the police, which takes us back to that story as follows:
Brown, who joined the city’s mayoral race less than three weeks ago, is running on a campaign of “reimagining public safety,” the paper reported.
end quotes
Yeah, right, people, and this is what “reimagining public safety” looks like in real life, which takes us back for more, as follows:
Last year, he voted in support of an ordinance to withhold $73 million from the budget of the Atlanta Police Department.
end quotes
And this year, his precious Mercedes-Benz got stolen by some lawless hoodlums!
Justice, anyone?
Getting back to this saga, it continues as follows:
Brown said the thieves jumped in his vehicle Wednesday after he got out to speak with community leader Ben Norman.
He noted his white Mercedes-Benz coupe has keyless push-to-start ignition and he failed to realize it had been started, reports said.
The councilman described the kids as being between ages 6 and 12, FOX 5 reported.
end quotes
The thieves who stole his Mercedes were between the ages of 6 and 12?
Did somebody say something about insanity is overwhelming us here in America as this wave of progressivism overpowers rationality?
Getting back to that story of what happens when Progressives defund the police, we have:
“One kid was in the driver’s seat.”
“Ben attempted to open the door to get him out of the car.”
“He fought with Ben.”
“I then engaged and tried to get him out of the car.”
“The three other kids were trying to figure out how to get in the car or stay out of the car.”
“He started to hit on the gas,” Brown said.
Brown added that he held on to the car in an attempt to stop them and was dragged about a block down the road before letting go.
“As he started to speed up, and I knew that if I had not let go, I knew I probably could have killed myself because he was going so fast, I would have started to tumble.”
“And I would have hurt him,” the councilman said.
Brown doesn’t plan on filing charges against the kids, who he says acted out of desperation, Atlanta’s WSB-TV reported.
“This is a generational poverty issue.”
“These kids, it’s 12:30 in the afternoon.”
“Why aren’t they in school?”
“Why aren’t we enforcing systems to ensure that if they are not in school, they’re in recreational centers?” he said.
end quotes
Now, people, there is a damn good question, and why is he asking us for answers when it should be him providing them?
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Paul Plante says:
And here I cannot pass up a story from Fox News that just came out entitled “Atlanta ‘defund the police’ backer has car stolen — by kids in broad daylight: reports” by David Aaro on 27 May 2021, to wit:
An Atlanta city councilman – who is aiming to be the city’s next mayor – had his car stolen by children in broad daylight Wednesday, according to reports.
Councilman Antonio Brown was attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony at an event in northeast Atlanta around noon when at least four kids jumped into his car and took off, FOX 5 of Atlanta reported.
“You don’t immediately think, ‘Oh, these kids are going to steal my car,’” Brown said, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The incident occurred amid a recent crime wave in the city.
end quotes
Yes, people, it is really the police who are the problem, not the criminals, so let us punish the police by getting rid of them and all will finally be right in the world again, at least according to the Progressives like this Antonio Brown dude who is himself under indictment on federal fraud charges related to alleged incidents that occurred in the years prior to him winning the council seat in 2019, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which is probably as good a reason as any to him to defund the police, which takes us back to that story as follows:
Brown, who joined the city’s mayoral race less than three weeks ago, is running on a campaign of “reimagining public safety,” the paper reported.
end quotes
Yeah, right, people, and this is what “reimagining public safety” looks like in real life, which takes us back for more, as follows:
Last year, he voted in support of an ordinance to withhold $73 million from the budget of the Atlanta Police Department.
end quotes
And this year, his precious Mercedes-Benz got stolen by some lawless hoodlums!
Justice, anyone?
Getting back to this saga, it continues as follows:
Brown said the thieves jumped in his vehicle Wednesday after he got out to speak with community leader Ben Norman.
He noted his white Mercedes-Benz coupe has keyless push-to-start ignition and he failed to realize it had been started, reports said.
The councilman described the kids as being between ages 6 and 12, FOX 5 reported.
end quotes
The thieves who stole his Mercedes were between the ages of 6 and 12?
Did somebody say something about insanity is overwhelming us here in America as this wave of progressivism overpowers rationality?
Getting back to that story of what happens when Progressives defund the police, we have:
“One kid was in the driver’s seat.”
“Ben attempted to open the door to get him out of the car.”
“He fought with Ben.”
“I then engaged and tried to get him out of the car.”
“The three other kids were trying to figure out how to get in the car or stay out of the car.”
“He started to hit on the gas,” Brown said.
Brown added that he held on to the car in an attempt to stop them and was dragged about a block down the road before letting go.
“As he started to speed up, and I knew that if I had not let go, I knew I probably could have killed myself because he was going so fast, I would have started to tumble.”
“And I would have hurt him,” the councilman said.
Brown doesn’t plan on filing charges against the kids, who he says acted out of desperation, Atlanta’s WSB-TV reported.
“This is a generational poverty issue.”
“These kids, it’s 12:30 in the afternoon.”
“Why aren’t they in school?”
“Why aren’t we enforcing systems to ensure that if they are not in school, they’re in recreational centers?” he said.
end quotes
Now, people, there is a damn good question, and why is he asking us for answers when it should be him providing them?
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/p ... ent-358122
Re: THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR MAY 30, 2021 AT 6:47 PM
Paul Plante says:
And as we watch violence increasing in these Democrat-controlled “defund the police” criminal sanctuary cities like Albany, New York and Atlanta, Georgia in the name of “police reform,” which is really police emasculation, let us go back to the study of the Albany, New York Police Department reform conducted for the Urban League, a group whose goals I find laudable, keeping in mind that when Albany mayor Gerald Jennings left office, he was replaced with the present mayor Kathy Sheehan, who has proclaimed Albany, New York, the capital of the state, as BLACK LIVES MATTER turf, to wit:
I. THE ALBANY POLICE DEPARTMENT THROUGH 1994
II. THE EVOLUTION OF COMMUNITY POLICING IN ALBANY
3. Reforming the APD
Building Support for Quality-of-Life Enforcement
Thus for all these reasons, the public and political pressures on APD officers to take low-level violations seriously did not strike all of them as unreasonable demands, and some had wanted to enforce these laws all along — they had simply felt constrained by organizational norms.
But none of this is to say that APD officers took to the new style of enforcement without pause, nor that all APD officers embraced it wholeheartedly.
Officers had a number of reasons for resisting the idea of quality-of-life enforcement at the outset, ranging from distaste for the required paperwork, to a belief that it was not “real police work,” to a firm conviction that it was counterproductive.
For example, one Albany resident, echoing the sentiments of some department members, argues that some officers had a deep-seated aversion to enforcing the laws against minor crimes, feeling that it is “beneath them” to do things like write parking tickets — even when neighbors feel strongly about the issue.
end quotes
Now, there is some essential background that never seems to get mentioned these days, when it is all about the criminals and how our hearts should bleed for them instead of their victims – quality of life law enforcement is imposed on the police by the community, not the other way around, which takes us back to that study, to wit:
Officers themselves sometimes insist that it is inappropriate to crack down on minor violations in some neighborhoods, which will view such actions as harassment, and they sometimes interpret management directions to the contrary as naïve to the point of being dangerous.
(When asked why the department did not crack down on disorderly behavior in one Albany neighborhood, one officer explained: “You would have a riot on your hands.”)
end quotes
And all these years later, with the encouragement of Democratic Socialist mayor Kathy Sheehan and the Applyers Junto or Applyers Gang as it is more commonly known, which has the Albany Police under siege and in its crosshairs, that is even more so today in this day and age of social media where the criminals can muster a flash mob seemingly in a matter of minutes in the event the police were foolish enough to try and make an arrest in the wrong part of Albany, which takes us back to the study, as follows:
Moreover, even those officers who agree with the principle of “zero tolerance” in the abstract find many exceptions in practice.
For example, one officer who insisted that he would unequivocally cite people for open container violations admitted that he excluded a certain group of corner drunks from the rule, since they had useful knowledge about what was going on in the neighborhood, and “they aren’t bugging anyone” anyhow.
Support for quality-of-life enforcement clearly varies considerably around the department.
For example, most department members argue that the 18 APD foot patrol officers are very willing to cite people for minor offenses, while other officers who are less in tune with community sentiment are less enthusiastic.
“Our outreach guys, they know a lot of people in their neighborhoods,” one department manager explains.
But the guys in the cars, they really don’t know [residents].
And I want them . . to go to the community meetings.
And I want them to be on the hot seat like I’ve been on the hot seat: You know, “How come this hasn’t been corrected?”
“How come they’re still dealing out of twenty-one Main Street?”
And I think if the officers go to these meetings — the regular uniform patrol officers, not just the foot patrol officers — if they start [going], they will take a little more responsibility for what’s going on in their areas: The junk cars, the refrigerators left out somewhere.
All these things all add up to aggravation.
“We have a lot of young, new police officers here that are learning it,” Tuffey explains.
“But you know what the nice part about it is?”
“They believe in it, they really do.”
“You can see that by a lot of the quality of life issue arrests.”
In any case, many community members noticed and appreciated the new emphasis on these matters.
To be sure, some decried stronger enforcement as harassment, arguing that police were singling out the homeless, the poor, and minorities for attention (a charge that police invariably deny).
“No one is happy when their children are arrested for drugs,” one department member explains.
“Nobody likes a speeding ticket.”
“No one likes parking tickets.”
“Nobody likes to get an open container ticket.”
“These are unpopular things.”
Another explains:
Pretty regularly [we’ll put] intensive manpower on one single corner, or one single block — sort of sweep that area for a few hours. . . .
And you go to a neighborhood meeting and you tell them that you are going to do it, it’s all “Rah, rah!” until a few of them have gotten tickets for not having their seat belt on. . . . .
And I always tell them whenever we move from one block or one neighborhood to another, that some of the problem people are friends, maybe relatives.
So be prepared.
You know, justice is blind: We are going to come in and identify the problems and eliminate them.
But they are likely to be closer to home than you think.
So when they are, don’t blame us.
Such mixed messages from the community clearly create a dilemma for police, and Albany managers like this one recognize the complexity of their situation and do not take the decision to “crack down” lightly:
If a problem is a problem for a neighborhood, if it’s a problem for the majority, then it’s dealt with.
If it’s the kind of situation that only arises to the elevation of problem for a few, then we try and work something out. . . .
Generally speaking, those problems [where we crack down] are neighborhood wide.
They are not usually small problems. . . . .
You may get one or two chronic pains in the neck in that respect that are constantly calling every time someone else turns their radio on in their house.
But generally speaking, when problems get to that elevation, they are serious problems.
And then we apply whatever is necessary to deal with them.
In any case, the manager continues, when backlash does arise, it is necessary to “take some action.”
Especially if the perception is that it’s racial issue.
Then the potential for that problem to be bigger than life, than it really is, is huge.
end quotes
And there we go, people, because all these years later, EVERYTHING under the sun is a “racial” issue because the pandering hack politicians on the make can get so much mileage out of it, which takes us back to that study as follows:
And I think that’s my feeling, that you’ve got to step right in . . . and take some action: Either reduce enforcement, disperse enforcement, [or] get involved and get to the people who see themselves as the victims. . . .
You need to get to the leaders in the community, . . . be that the clergy, or community activists, or neighborhood association activists.
You need to get to them.
You need to have a dialogue with them.
Because they are the ones with credibility amongst the population, whatever that population is.
And you now are in a position where your credibility is in question.
Many of these situations have arisen in Albany, as vigorous enforcement has pleased some groups who called for it but alienated others — or even the same ones — who feel harassed.
In a few cases, like the department’s crackdown on underage drinking, some APD members believe that the department has faced political pressure to back down entirely, both from parents of the underage youth and from well-connected tavern owners.
But in other cases the department has resisted efforts to rein in quality-of-life enforcement by explaining the rationale behind it.
In any case, for most department members these concerns do arise, but the opposite message predominates.
For example, asked if complaints about harassment have been common at the community meetings he attends, one department manager responds that they have not been, pointing out that “usually the people that are at these meetings are the people who want arrests made: They want enforcement of the difference ordinances.”
And when asked the same question, Jennings insists that most citizens he hears from do not complain about stepped-up enforcement: “I hear about us not enforcing it,” the Mayor explains.
end quotes
And now his successor in office Kathy Sheehan, who has surrendered the city to BLACK LIVES MATTER, has taken the opposite tack because the “citizens” she listens to and takes the knee to in submission do not want the law enforced against them, and mayor Kathy is doing her level best to keep that from happening.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/p ... ent-358782
Paul Plante says:
And as we watch violence increasing in these Democrat-controlled “defund the police” criminal sanctuary cities like Albany, New York and Atlanta, Georgia in the name of “police reform,” which is really police emasculation, let us go back to the study of the Albany, New York Police Department reform conducted for the Urban League, a group whose goals I find laudable, keeping in mind that when Albany mayor Gerald Jennings left office, he was replaced with the present mayor Kathy Sheehan, who has proclaimed Albany, New York, the capital of the state, as BLACK LIVES MATTER turf, to wit:
I. THE ALBANY POLICE DEPARTMENT THROUGH 1994
II. THE EVOLUTION OF COMMUNITY POLICING IN ALBANY
3. Reforming the APD
Building Support for Quality-of-Life Enforcement
Thus for all these reasons, the public and political pressures on APD officers to take low-level violations seriously did not strike all of them as unreasonable demands, and some had wanted to enforce these laws all along — they had simply felt constrained by organizational norms.
But none of this is to say that APD officers took to the new style of enforcement without pause, nor that all APD officers embraced it wholeheartedly.
Officers had a number of reasons for resisting the idea of quality-of-life enforcement at the outset, ranging from distaste for the required paperwork, to a belief that it was not “real police work,” to a firm conviction that it was counterproductive.
For example, one Albany resident, echoing the sentiments of some department members, argues that some officers had a deep-seated aversion to enforcing the laws against minor crimes, feeling that it is “beneath them” to do things like write parking tickets — even when neighbors feel strongly about the issue.
end quotes
Now, there is some essential background that never seems to get mentioned these days, when it is all about the criminals and how our hearts should bleed for them instead of their victims – quality of life law enforcement is imposed on the police by the community, not the other way around, which takes us back to that study, to wit:
Officers themselves sometimes insist that it is inappropriate to crack down on minor violations in some neighborhoods, which will view such actions as harassment, and they sometimes interpret management directions to the contrary as naïve to the point of being dangerous.
(When asked why the department did not crack down on disorderly behavior in one Albany neighborhood, one officer explained: “You would have a riot on your hands.”)
end quotes
And all these years later, with the encouragement of Democratic Socialist mayor Kathy Sheehan and the Applyers Junto or Applyers Gang as it is more commonly known, which has the Albany Police under siege and in its crosshairs, that is even more so today in this day and age of social media where the criminals can muster a flash mob seemingly in a matter of minutes in the event the police were foolish enough to try and make an arrest in the wrong part of Albany, which takes us back to the study, as follows:
Moreover, even those officers who agree with the principle of “zero tolerance” in the abstract find many exceptions in practice.
For example, one officer who insisted that he would unequivocally cite people for open container violations admitted that he excluded a certain group of corner drunks from the rule, since they had useful knowledge about what was going on in the neighborhood, and “they aren’t bugging anyone” anyhow.
Support for quality-of-life enforcement clearly varies considerably around the department.
For example, most department members argue that the 18 APD foot patrol officers are very willing to cite people for minor offenses, while other officers who are less in tune with community sentiment are less enthusiastic.
“Our outreach guys, they know a lot of people in their neighborhoods,” one department manager explains.
But the guys in the cars, they really don’t know [residents].
And I want them . . to go to the community meetings.
And I want them to be on the hot seat like I’ve been on the hot seat: You know, “How come this hasn’t been corrected?”
“How come they’re still dealing out of twenty-one Main Street?”
And I think if the officers go to these meetings — the regular uniform patrol officers, not just the foot patrol officers — if they start [going], they will take a little more responsibility for what’s going on in their areas: The junk cars, the refrigerators left out somewhere.
All these things all add up to aggravation.
“We have a lot of young, new police officers here that are learning it,” Tuffey explains.
“But you know what the nice part about it is?”
“They believe in it, they really do.”
“You can see that by a lot of the quality of life issue arrests.”
In any case, many community members noticed and appreciated the new emphasis on these matters.
To be sure, some decried stronger enforcement as harassment, arguing that police were singling out the homeless, the poor, and minorities for attention (a charge that police invariably deny).
“No one is happy when their children are arrested for drugs,” one department member explains.
“Nobody likes a speeding ticket.”
“No one likes parking tickets.”
“Nobody likes to get an open container ticket.”
“These are unpopular things.”
Another explains:
Pretty regularly [we’ll put] intensive manpower on one single corner, or one single block — sort of sweep that area for a few hours. . . .
And you go to a neighborhood meeting and you tell them that you are going to do it, it’s all “Rah, rah!” until a few of them have gotten tickets for not having their seat belt on. . . . .
And I always tell them whenever we move from one block or one neighborhood to another, that some of the problem people are friends, maybe relatives.
So be prepared.
You know, justice is blind: We are going to come in and identify the problems and eliminate them.
But they are likely to be closer to home than you think.
So when they are, don’t blame us.
Such mixed messages from the community clearly create a dilemma for police, and Albany managers like this one recognize the complexity of their situation and do not take the decision to “crack down” lightly:
If a problem is a problem for a neighborhood, if it’s a problem for the majority, then it’s dealt with.
If it’s the kind of situation that only arises to the elevation of problem for a few, then we try and work something out. . . .
Generally speaking, those problems [where we crack down] are neighborhood wide.
They are not usually small problems. . . . .
You may get one or two chronic pains in the neck in that respect that are constantly calling every time someone else turns their radio on in their house.
But generally speaking, when problems get to that elevation, they are serious problems.
And then we apply whatever is necessary to deal with them.
In any case, the manager continues, when backlash does arise, it is necessary to “take some action.”
Especially if the perception is that it’s racial issue.
Then the potential for that problem to be bigger than life, than it really is, is huge.
end quotes
And there we go, people, because all these years later, EVERYTHING under the sun is a “racial” issue because the pandering hack politicians on the make can get so much mileage out of it, which takes us back to that study as follows:
And I think that’s my feeling, that you’ve got to step right in . . . and take some action: Either reduce enforcement, disperse enforcement, [or] get involved and get to the people who see themselves as the victims. . . .
You need to get to the leaders in the community, . . . be that the clergy, or community activists, or neighborhood association activists.
You need to get to them.
You need to have a dialogue with them.
Because they are the ones with credibility amongst the population, whatever that population is.
And you now are in a position where your credibility is in question.
Many of these situations have arisen in Albany, as vigorous enforcement has pleased some groups who called for it but alienated others — or even the same ones — who feel harassed.
In a few cases, like the department’s crackdown on underage drinking, some APD members believe that the department has faced political pressure to back down entirely, both from parents of the underage youth and from well-connected tavern owners.
But in other cases the department has resisted efforts to rein in quality-of-life enforcement by explaining the rationale behind it.
In any case, for most department members these concerns do arise, but the opposite message predominates.
For example, asked if complaints about harassment have been common at the community meetings he attends, one department manager responds that they have not been, pointing out that “usually the people that are at these meetings are the people who want arrests made: They want enforcement of the difference ordinances.”
And when asked the same question, Jennings insists that most citizens he hears from do not complain about stepped-up enforcement: “I hear about us not enforcing it,” the Mayor explains.
end quotes
And now his successor in office Kathy Sheehan, who has surrendered the city to BLACK LIVES MATTER, has taken the opposite tack because the “citizens” she listens to and takes the knee to in submission do not want the law enforced against them, and mayor Kathy is doing her level best to keep that from happening.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/p ... ent-358782
Re: THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JUNE 1, 2021 AT 8:41 PM
Paul Plante says:
And going back to the criminal sanctuary city of Albany, New York under the rule of Biden Elector Kathy Sheehan, a BLACK LIVES MATTER city where it is the police who are under siege by the politicians, for the latest gun violence in that sick city, we have from the Albany, New York Times Union this story entitled “Gun violence takes another life overnight in Albany – 29-year-old is city’s ninth homicide of 2021, the fourth in the past nine days” by Brendan J. Lyons and Pete DeMola on May 30, 2021, as follows:
ALBANY — A 29-year-old man was shot and killed early Sunday on Quail Street, the latest victim in a month marked by gun violence in the city, police said.
The man, a Hamilton Street resident with ties to Schenectady, may have been the victim of an apparent robbery, according to police sources, and he became the city’s ninth homicide victim of the year and the sixth this month.
The killing happened amid a surge of gun violence in the city that’s prompted police to seek outside help and activists to call for more broad efforts to improve the quality of life in the city and bring about long-term declines in violence.
end quotes
Quality of life?
Seems like we have heard that term before in connection with Albany, New York, have we not?
And that takes us in turn to another Times Union story entitled “Albany mayor backs police chief as police name the latest homicide victim” by Paul Nelson on May 31, 2021, as follows:
ALBANY — As police revealed the identity of the latest victim of an explosion of deadly gun violence in the city, Mayor Kathy Sheehan said she had “complete confidence” in Police Chief Eric Hawkins’ ability to lead the response and blamed the bloodshed on the proliferation of guns on the streets of Albany and other American cities.
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Whether or not Kathy Sheehan has “complete confidence” in Police Chief Eric Hawkins, who she brought in from the midwest as a “token” to appease the Black community in Albany is immaterial, because nobody has confidence in Kathy Sheehan to maintain law and order in the capital city of the state, which Sheehan treats as her personal possession, after she was quoted in the same Times Union as telling everybody in America it was time for them to take the knee in submission to BLACK LIVES MATTER, as she had the chief do when he very publicly “took the knee” in solidarity with BLACK LIVES MATTER.
As to guns coming into Albany, when haven’t they been?
Let’s go back to a New York Times story on Dec. 25, 2003, Section B, Page 9 of the National edition with the headline: “Metro Briefing | New York: Albany: Police Lieutenant Is Shot In Chase,” where we have as follows with respect to guns in Albany, to wit:
By The Associated Press
Dec. 25, 2003
A police officer was shot twice late Tuesday night while chasing a robbery suspect, officials said.
The officer, Lt. John Finn, was in critical condition yesterday after more than nine hours of emergency surgery, officials said.
He was shot in the leg and back after investigating a report of an armed robbery at a convenience store shortly after 11 p.m., the police said.
The suspect, Keyshawn Everett, shot Lieutenant Finn while the police chased him through the streets of Albany’s South End neighborhood, Detective James Miller said.
Officers then returned fire and wounded Mr. Everett, Detective Miller said.
Both Lieutenant Finn and Mr. Everett underwent surgery at the Albany Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman, Wenda Howard, said. Mr. Everett was also listed in critical condition.
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In an article in the Times Union entitled “Albany, NY Police Lieutenant seriously wounded in gun battle” By Brendan Lyons on December 25, 2003, we learn further as follows about that shooting, to wit:
Lt. John Finn was less than an hour away from finishing his late shift patrolling some of Albany’s roughest neighborhoods.
Then he could return home, where he expected to celebrate Christmas with his wife and two young daughters this morning.
But shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday, police radios crackled as an armed robbery unfolded at a neighborhood convenience store on the edge of the city’s South End.
Moments later, the 37-year-old patrol supervisor was pulled into a gun battle that has left him clinging to life and the robbery suspect gravely wounded.
“It’s been very, very difficult,” said Mayor Jerry Jennings.
“I’ve known him for years, and he’s a great representative of this department.”
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Jennings is the predecessor to Kathy Sheehan as Albany mayor.
Getting back to that story, it continues as follows:
The 26-year-old man who allegedly exchanged gunfire with Finn, Keshon Everett of Albany, is an ex-convict with a lengthy criminal history and who is currently on federal probation for a 1996 drug conviction.
He allegedly fired 12 shots at Finn with an outlawed rapid-fire pistol — a knockoff of the banned TEC-9 assault pistol.
The gun holds 20 rounds and can fire a spray of bullets.
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So yes, mayor Kathy, guns coming into Albany!
Who knew!
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Paul Plante says:
And going back to the criminal sanctuary city of Albany, New York under the rule of Biden Elector Kathy Sheehan, a BLACK LIVES MATTER city where it is the police who are under siege by the politicians, for the latest gun violence in that sick city, we have from the Albany, New York Times Union this story entitled “Gun violence takes another life overnight in Albany – 29-year-old is city’s ninth homicide of 2021, the fourth in the past nine days” by Brendan J. Lyons and Pete DeMola on May 30, 2021, as follows:
ALBANY — A 29-year-old man was shot and killed early Sunday on Quail Street, the latest victim in a month marked by gun violence in the city, police said.
The man, a Hamilton Street resident with ties to Schenectady, may have been the victim of an apparent robbery, according to police sources, and he became the city’s ninth homicide victim of the year and the sixth this month.
The killing happened amid a surge of gun violence in the city that’s prompted police to seek outside help and activists to call for more broad efforts to improve the quality of life in the city and bring about long-term declines in violence.
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Quality of life?
Seems like we have heard that term before in connection with Albany, New York, have we not?
And that takes us in turn to another Times Union story entitled “Albany mayor backs police chief as police name the latest homicide victim” by Paul Nelson on May 31, 2021, as follows:
ALBANY — As police revealed the identity of the latest victim of an explosion of deadly gun violence in the city, Mayor Kathy Sheehan said she had “complete confidence” in Police Chief Eric Hawkins’ ability to lead the response and blamed the bloodshed on the proliferation of guns on the streets of Albany and other American cities.
end quotes
Whether or not Kathy Sheehan has “complete confidence” in Police Chief Eric Hawkins, who she brought in from the midwest as a “token” to appease the Black community in Albany is immaterial, because nobody has confidence in Kathy Sheehan to maintain law and order in the capital city of the state, which Sheehan treats as her personal possession, after she was quoted in the same Times Union as telling everybody in America it was time for them to take the knee in submission to BLACK LIVES MATTER, as she had the chief do when he very publicly “took the knee” in solidarity with BLACK LIVES MATTER.
As to guns coming into Albany, when haven’t they been?
Let’s go back to a New York Times story on Dec. 25, 2003, Section B, Page 9 of the National edition with the headline: “Metro Briefing | New York: Albany: Police Lieutenant Is Shot In Chase,” where we have as follows with respect to guns in Albany, to wit:
By The Associated Press
Dec. 25, 2003
A police officer was shot twice late Tuesday night while chasing a robbery suspect, officials said.
The officer, Lt. John Finn, was in critical condition yesterday after more than nine hours of emergency surgery, officials said.
He was shot in the leg and back after investigating a report of an armed robbery at a convenience store shortly after 11 p.m., the police said.
The suspect, Keyshawn Everett, shot Lieutenant Finn while the police chased him through the streets of Albany’s South End neighborhood, Detective James Miller said.
Officers then returned fire and wounded Mr. Everett, Detective Miller said.
Both Lieutenant Finn and Mr. Everett underwent surgery at the Albany Medical Center, a hospital spokeswoman, Wenda Howard, said. Mr. Everett was also listed in critical condition.
end quotes
In an article in the Times Union entitled “Albany, NY Police Lieutenant seriously wounded in gun battle” By Brendan Lyons on December 25, 2003, we learn further as follows about that shooting, to wit:
Lt. John Finn was less than an hour away from finishing his late shift patrolling some of Albany’s roughest neighborhoods.
Then he could return home, where he expected to celebrate Christmas with his wife and two young daughters this morning.
But shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday, police radios crackled as an armed robbery unfolded at a neighborhood convenience store on the edge of the city’s South End.
Moments later, the 37-year-old patrol supervisor was pulled into a gun battle that has left him clinging to life and the robbery suspect gravely wounded.
“It’s been very, very difficult,” said Mayor Jerry Jennings.
“I’ve known him for years, and he’s a great representative of this department.”
end quotes
Jennings is the predecessor to Kathy Sheehan as Albany mayor.
Getting back to that story, it continues as follows:
The 26-year-old man who allegedly exchanged gunfire with Finn, Keshon Everett of Albany, is an ex-convict with a lengthy criminal history and who is currently on federal probation for a 1996 drug conviction.
He allegedly fired 12 shots at Finn with an outlawed rapid-fire pistol — a knockoff of the banned TEC-9 assault pistol.
The gun holds 20 rounds and can fire a spray of bullets.
end quotes
So yes, mayor Kathy, guns coming into Albany!
Who knew!
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Re: THOUGHTS ON POLICE REFORM
THE CAPE CHARLES MIRROR JUNE 3, 2021 AT 8:42 PM
Paul Plante says:
And here I would like to go back to the Albany, New York Times Union story entitled “Albany mayor backs police chief as police name the latest homicide victim” by Paul Nelson on May 31, 2021, as follows:
Sheehan acknowledged morale within the (Albany, N.Y.) police force is “very challenged” but she insisted the police department could confront the violence, noting arrests were made in several of the recent killings.
end quote
And my goodness, people, why wouldn’t morale within the Albany, New York Police Department be challenged, when it is the police in Albany who are being made out to be the criminals in Albany, as opposed to the real criminals who are coddled in that sick, sanctuary city, and that takes us to another Times Union story to see the further source of that “challenged morale,” this one entitled “AG James, lawmakers introduce bill reforming police use of lethal force – Proposal unveiled as nation approaches one-year mark since death of George Floyd” by Chris Bragg on May 21, 2021, where we have from “Tish,” the New York State Attorney General, as follows:
ALBANY — State Attorney General Letitia James and state lawmakers announced Friday the introduction of legislation designed to raise the legal standard under which members of law enforcement can employ lethal force.
The bill would change the standard in New York from “simple necessity” to an absolute last resort.
“If there is a way to accomplish the officer’s objective without the use of lethal force, we should absolutely demand they take the other path,” James said.
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Now, think about that sentence for a moment, what it really is saying: If there is a way to accomplish the officer’s objective without the use of lethal force, we should absolutely demand they take the other path.
And what pray tell, might the officer’s objective in fact be?
More to the point, what should the officer’s objective be?
And who is going to be the judge of that?
Tish?
And this is the same Tish who was featured in a New York Times story entitled “Letitia James, With Cuomo’s Help, Raises $1 Million in Attorney General Race” where we learned that Letitia James, the New York City public advocate, will have raised $1 million in campaign funds in her race for attorney general, a sign that her partnership with Gov. Andrew Cuomo is paying off.
And that is the same Andrew Cuomo who unilaterally determined that all police agencies in New York state should be “reformed,” so Tish is going to be the reformer, which is kind of unique, given the appearance of Tish in a story in the New York Post entitled “State politicians accepted illegal donations from corporations” by Anna Sanders on July 28, 2018, to wit:
Public Advocate Letitia James accepted at least $5,000 in illegal corporate contributions to her state attorney general campaign, filings show.
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And hey, people, get off her back – it’s New York and that’s the way things are done, so everybody just shut up about it, which takes us back to the Post as follows:
“This law has been routinely violated,” said veteran Albany watcher Blair Horner, of the good government group NYPIRG.
“I don’t know of anyone punished for doing this.”
For her AG campaign, James took $10,000 from Slate Property Group on May 18, her corporate filings show.
She also took $7,500 each from Climatech HVAC Corp. and Ipex Plumbing And Heating Corp. this year.
The James campaign claimed Slate’s campaign contribution reflected sloppy bookkeeping, with the money actually coming came from a limited-liability company of the same name.
LLCs have much higher contribution limits, though government watchdogs decry the loophole for allowing the fat contributions.
James spokeswoman Delaney Kempner said the campaign will return $2,500 to both Climatech and Ipex and will conduct a “full review of donations to make sure there aren’t others over the limit.”
Violations are supposed to be policed by Cuomo appointee Risa Sugarman, the chief enforcement counsel at the Board of Elections.
She is viewed as an ally of the governor.
Sugarman refused to answer questions about enforcement on Friday.
end quotes
So no wonder Tish doesn’t like the police!
Which thought takes us back to the Times Union story, to wit:
The bill, which is being sponsored by state Assemblyman Nick Perry and Sen. Kevin Parker, both of Brooklyn, would require officers to consider whether the same outcomes could be possible through the use of non-lethal force.
end quotes
Again, what outcomes?
And how much time exactly is the officer supposed to spend meditating on that question?
Getting back to the Times Union, it goes on as follows:
James said the bill would create “real consequences for when an officer crosses the line” through “clear and concise and objective standards.”
Perry said that more than 960 Americans were killed after encounters with police over the past year, and cited statistics that Black citizens were proportionately much more likely to die in such an encounter.
Perry believed there was “significant support” in the Assembly for the idea, while Parker said there was a “big appetite for justice” in the Senate.
Both houses are controlled by Democrats, and have passed other criminal justice reforms in recent years.
The leader of New York City’s largest police officer union reacted unfavorably to the proposed legislation.
“This sweeping proposal would make it impossible for police officers to determine whether or not we are permitted to use force in a given situation,” said Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch.
“The only reasonable solution will be to avoid confrontations where force might become necessary.”
“Meanwhile, violent criminals certainly aren’t hesitating to use force against police officers or our communities.”
“The bottom line: More cops and more regular New Yorkers are going to get hurt.”
end quotes
Will Tish care?
Will Andy Cuomo?
Will Biden Elector Kathy Sheehan of the criminal sanctuary city of Albany, New York?
One must seriously doubt it.
http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/p ... ent-360613
Paul Plante says:
And here I would like to go back to the Albany, New York Times Union story entitled “Albany mayor backs police chief as police name the latest homicide victim” by Paul Nelson on May 31, 2021, as follows:
Sheehan acknowledged morale within the (Albany, N.Y.) police force is “very challenged” but she insisted the police department could confront the violence, noting arrests were made in several of the recent killings.
end quote
And my goodness, people, why wouldn’t morale within the Albany, New York Police Department be challenged, when it is the police in Albany who are being made out to be the criminals in Albany, as opposed to the real criminals who are coddled in that sick, sanctuary city, and that takes us to another Times Union story to see the further source of that “challenged morale,” this one entitled “AG James, lawmakers introduce bill reforming police use of lethal force – Proposal unveiled as nation approaches one-year mark since death of George Floyd” by Chris Bragg on May 21, 2021, where we have from “Tish,” the New York State Attorney General, as follows:
ALBANY — State Attorney General Letitia James and state lawmakers announced Friday the introduction of legislation designed to raise the legal standard under which members of law enforcement can employ lethal force.
The bill would change the standard in New York from “simple necessity” to an absolute last resort.
“If there is a way to accomplish the officer’s objective without the use of lethal force, we should absolutely demand they take the other path,” James said.
end quotes
Now, think about that sentence for a moment, what it really is saying: If there is a way to accomplish the officer’s objective without the use of lethal force, we should absolutely demand they take the other path.
And what pray tell, might the officer’s objective in fact be?
More to the point, what should the officer’s objective be?
And who is going to be the judge of that?
Tish?
And this is the same Tish who was featured in a New York Times story entitled “Letitia James, With Cuomo’s Help, Raises $1 Million in Attorney General Race” where we learned that Letitia James, the New York City public advocate, will have raised $1 million in campaign funds in her race for attorney general, a sign that her partnership with Gov. Andrew Cuomo is paying off.
And that is the same Andrew Cuomo who unilaterally determined that all police agencies in New York state should be “reformed,” so Tish is going to be the reformer, which is kind of unique, given the appearance of Tish in a story in the New York Post entitled “State politicians accepted illegal donations from corporations” by Anna Sanders on July 28, 2018, to wit:
Public Advocate Letitia James accepted at least $5,000 in illegal corporate contributions to her state attorney general campaign, filings show.
end quotes
And hey, people, get off her back – it’s New York and that’s the way things are done, so everybody just shut up about it, which takes us back to the Post as follows:
“This law has been routinely violated,” said veteran Albany watcher Blair Horner, of the good government group NYPIRG.
“I don’t know of anyone punished for doing this.”
For her AG campaign, James took $10,000 from Slate Property Group on May 18, her corporate filings show.
She also took $7,500 each from Climatech HVAC Corp. and Ipex Plumbing And Heating Corp. this year.
The James campaign claimed Slate’s campaign contribution reflected sloppy bookkeeping, with the money actually coming came from a limited-liability company of the same name.
LLCs have much higher contribution limits, though government watchdogs decry the loophole for allowing the fat contributions.
James spokeswoman Delaney Kempner said the campaign will return $2,500 to both Climatech and Ipex and will conduct a “full review of donations to make sure there aren’t others over the limit.”
Violations are supposed to be policed by Cuomo appointee Risa Sugarman, the chief enforcement counsel at the Board of Elections.
She is viewed as an ally of the governor.
Sugarman refused to answer questions about enforcement on Friday.
end quotes
So no wonder Tish doesn’t like the police!
Which thought takes us back to the Times Union story, to wit:
The bill, which is being sponsored by state Assemblyman Nick Perry and Sen. Kevin Parker, both of Brooklyn, would require officers to consider whether the same outcomes could be possible through the use of non-lethal force.
end quotes
Again, what outcomes?
And how much time exactly is the officer supposed to spend meditating on that question?
Getting back to the Times Union, it goes on as follows:
James said the bill would create “real consequences for when an officer crosses the line” through “clear and concise and objective standards.”
Perry said that more than 960 Americans were killed after encounters with police over the past year, and cited statistics that Black citizens were proportionately much more likely to die in such an encounter.
Perry believed there was “significant support” in the Assembly for the idea, while Parker said there was a “big appetite for justice” in the Senate.
Both houses are controlled by Democrats, and have passed other criminal justice reforms in recent years.
The leader of New York City’s largest police officer union reacted unfavorably to the proposed legislation.
“This sweeping proposal would make it impossible for police officers to determine whether or not we are permitted to use force in a given situation,” said Police Benevolent Association president Patrick Lynch.
“The only reasonable solution will be to avoid confrontations where force might become necessary.”
“Meanwhile, violent criminals certainly aren’t hesitating to use force against police officers or our communities.”
“The bottom line: More cops and more regular New Yorkers are going to get hurt.”
end quotes
Will Tish care?
Will Andy Cuomo?
Will Biden Elector Kathy Sheehan of the criminal sanctuary city of Albany, New York?
One must seriously doubt it.
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