Just as Ku Klux Klan members used white hoods to conceal their identities and terrorize their targets, modern activists are using keffiyehs, Guy Fawkes masks, balaclavas, and other inherently intimidating face coverings. Indeed, face-masking is pervasive among participants in demonstrations that are growing in frequency and disruptiveness. Most recently, the pro-Hamas “protests” that have proliferated […]
— Read on manhattan.institute/article/model-legislation-to-modernize-anti-kkk-masking-laws-for-intimidating-protesters
Tag: Crime
Wrong on Crime | City Journal
The latest report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights misleads about the victims of violence.
— Read on www.city-journal.org/article/wrong-on-crime
Reports and Body-cam Video Raise Familiar Concerns About Baltimore Police Plainclothes Unit
In May, a Baltimore Police Department detective pointed his service weapon to the temple of a prone and restrained Baltimore man.
— Read on thegarrisonproject.org/bpd-dat-arrest-joyner/
Initiative 157: Funding For Law Enforcement | Common Sense Institute
Ballot Initiative 157 attempts to respond to Colorado’s crime by sweetening police recruitment incentives.
— Read on commonsenseinstituteco.org/initiative-157-funding-for-law-enforcement/
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Exclusive | Migrants flooding NYC’s justice system — making up ‘75% of arrests in Midtown’ — as ‘pathetic’ sanctuary city laws handcuff cops
Migrant crime is taking its toll on NYC’s criminal justice system, forcing precincts and courthouses to contend with a never-ending parade of criminal suspects, which consume a disproportionate share of resources needed to keep New Yorkers safe.
— Read on nypost.com/2024/09/02/us-news/migrants-flooding-nycs-justice-system-making-up-75-of-arrests-in-midtown-as-pathetic-sanctuary-city-laws-handcuff-cops/
Vital City | Crime Rhetoric vs. Crime Realities
Mayor Adams is right that New York is safer in some respects, but that smoothes over troubling trends.
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/crime-rhetoric-vs-crime-realities
In Defense of Graffiti
Note: Graffiti may look like art to some people but painting graffiti on other people’s property is ILLEGAL.
Graffiti is a visible reminder that, despite everything, people are still struggling along, making their mark. That humanity remains, in all its messy glory, despite every attempt to flatten and sanitize it away.
— Read on www.currentaffairs.org/news/in-defense-of-graffiti
You Have to Move: The Cruel and Ineffective Criminalization of Unhoused People in Los Angeles
Vital Signs: The State of Crime in New York City at Midyear 2024 |Vital City
A sluggish recovery with three warning bells for the quality of city life.
An excellent concept discussed is VOLUME OF CRIME. Volume of crime is probably what the citizens feel and is the reason why when “experts” claim that the crime rate decreased in NYC citizens continue to feel unsafe.
— Read on www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the-state-of-crime-in-new-york-city-at-midyear-2024
THE INJUSTICE OF UNDER-POLICING IN AMERICA1 | American Journal of Law and Equality | MIT Press
Since 2014, viral images of Black people being killed at the hands of the police—Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Breonna Taylor, and many, many others—have
— Read on direct.mit.edu/ajle/article/doi/10.1162/ajle_a_00030/112647
Future of Policing 