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Bill de Blasio caves to absurd ‘defund the police’ movement: Goodwin
By Michael Goodwin
June 30, 2020 | 10:09pm | Updated NEW YORK POST
Reader Jay Roberts raises the burning question of the day, one that has sparked a lively debate with one of his friends.
He writes, “You say Mayor de Blasio is a ‘putz’ but my friend says he’s a ‘schmuck.’ I suggest we send the mayor a letter asking for his opinion. A putz wouldn’t answer it, but a schmuck would.”
To which I say: Stop! You’re both right!
For those who don’t speak New York, think of a putz as a hapless fool, someone incapable of doing the right thing. A schmuck, on the other hand, is a jerk, someone who intentionally does the wrong thing.
Unfortunately for New Yorkers, de Blasio takes turns at being both. He always screws up, the only difference being whether it’s intentional. Either way, Gotham gets screwed.
The latest evidence comes with his agreement to cut police spending by about 17 percent, including the cancellation of a new class of rookies. With retirements soaring, that guarantees fewer cops on the street just as murder and mayhem are turning much of the city into the Wild West.
Murders are up 25 percent this year and the police counted 63 shootings last week, compared with 26 for the same week last year.
The violent tide suggests the bad guys have no fear of being arrested. Why should they? And if they are, the new bail law requires judges to release most of them immediately anyway.
Meanwhile, the domino effect will add to the city’s misery. The crime spurt, including the tragic murder of 17-year-old Brandon Hendricks, while the police force is facing reductions means the NYPD will have little or no resources for less serious but still important quality-of-life issues. read more
By Michael Goodwin
June 30, 2020 | 10:09pm | Updated NEW YORK POST
Reader Jay Roberts raises the burning question of the day, one that has sparked a lively debate with one of his friends.
He writes, “You say Mayor de Blasio is a ‘putz’ but my friend says he’s a ‘schmuck.’ I suggest we send the mayor a letter asking for his opinion. A putz wouldn’t answer it, but a schmuck would.”
To which I say: Stop! You’re both right!
For those who don’t speak New York, think of a putz as a hapless fool, someone incapable of doing the right thing. A schmuck, on the other hand, is a jerk, someone who intentionally does the wrong thing.
Unfortunately for New Yorkers, de Blasio takes turns at being both. He always screws up, the only difference being whether it’s intentional. Either way, Gotham gets screwed.
The latest evidence comes with his agreement to cut police spending by about 17 percent, including the cancellation of a new class of rookies. With retirements soaring, that guarantees fewer cops on the street just as murder and mayhem are turning much of the city into the Wild West.
Murders are up 25 percent this year and the police counted 63 shootings last week, compared with 26 for the same week last year.
The violent tide suggests the bad guys have no fear of being arrested. Why should they? And if they are, the new bail law requires judges to release most of them immediately anyway.
Meanwhile, the domino effect will add to the city’s misery. The crime spurt, including the tragic murder of 17-year-old Brandon Hendricks, while the police force is facing reductions means the NYPD will have little or no resources for less serious but still important quality-of-life issues. read more
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Defund universities, not police
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - - Tuesday, June 30, 2020 ANALYSIS/OPINION: It’s an ill wind that blows no good. The good that can come from our present distress is the final realization that we have long been subsidizing our own problems. Funding institutions of higher education that for two generations have had an anti-American atmosphere has come to a head, as a large majority of the destructive Black Lives Matter crowd is made up of white, “university-educated” women. The days when you could work your way through college and graduate not only debt-free but educated disappeared soon after President Jimmy Carter created the Department of Education. Since then, billions of dollars in government money have been granted to institutions that were once independent. Student loans have put a lifelong, life-altering debt on the shoulders of graduates, making socialism with all its freebies sound like a great idea. Add to this a curriculum that supplants American ideals with Marxism and you shed not grace but poison into our society. read more
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