Where's the Restorative Justice initiative, legislation to expunge the records of the men and women who've been victimized for smoking/selling Marijuana (Victimless Crimes). What's the plan to help them become productive members of society?
If New York has now banned "stop & frisk" which accounted for millions of stops.... And the city is decriminalizing marijuana - which accounts for hundreds of thousands of arrests... Doesn't that mean the city can finally have a smaller police department? Doesn't add up.
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Not in NYC. If it's anything like LA, officers are over-stretched, whereby 1 major incident means 45+ minute response times for comparatively less urgent calls (which can still prove life-threatening). This doesn't excuse brutality, but too few responders means more job stress.
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This is so under appreciated. The LA police force is one of the most stretched departments (the largest area to cover per officer) and also one of the most problematic (unprovoked shootings, deaths during/after arrest) with major staff retention problems.
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When a job sucks so badly (overstretched, under skilled, not supported with the right training or counciling) that people regularly quit the profession entirely after just 3-4 years it has to be pushing good people out and has to be driving standards down.
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there’s nothing wrong with a strong police force when that force acts right. there are 12 mil+ in nyc at noon on any given day. shit happens. when officers become a part of the community things go better
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The city has a zillion residents and a zillion more nonresidents coming and going. The police force probably needs to be big. But they should have more time for better training now, and no need to work anyone OT.
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Well if you account for anything having to do with marijuana the only crime in New York, you make a great point, but being how it’s not, I’m fine with more cops...and this is coming from someone that has “FIT THE DESCRIPTION” on more than one occasion.
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I would say they can direct officers to go after the real criminals - drug kingpins, crooked businessmen, donestic abusers...but sadly they need to be retrained on how to do that bc for so many years they have been trained to harrass black people for petty BS.
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Yea right. Years back in my neighborhood they built a jail house right on Pitkin ave. A shopping ave....what you think happened after that...nothing but stop & frisk every corner....cops jumped out in the middle of the street on school kids with book bags & frisked them smh
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Maybe to police will help more and be more properly trained, now that they can do less oppression.
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Don’t believe statistics because everyone can’t keep up with paper work.
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What you're not taking into account is the increase in gen'l population. Nothing is static. If it is, it dies. A growing city requires a police force commensurate with its size to handle the myriad of other services provided by police. Glad to see end to S&F & weed criminaliz'n.
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Shaun... just stop. Millions of people that need protection from domestic let alone foreign threats. Focus on better training and improving the stop numbers. A good / large police force is absolutely beneficial to NYC. This is naive
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Wow. Is that your end game?!!! Let’s reduce the officers in YOUR neighborhood!!
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Take it someplace. We are the largest city in the world. We need our police department. Who do you typically call when people make threats directed you? Everybody hates a cop until they need a cop.
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