As an attorney myself, I’ll be the first to say that his job as a lawyer is to be a zealous advocate for his clients within the bounds of the law. If he truly said that his role is to keep his clients out of prison so that they can commit more crimes, he needs a refresher course in legal ethics and a new career.
As an attorney myself, I’ll be the first to say that his job as a lawyer is to be a zealous advocate for his clients within the bounds of the law. If he truly said that his role is to keep his clients out of prison so that they can commit more crimes, he needs a refresher course in legal ethics and a new career.
I don’t think he had a choice being a public defender. He certainly didn’t need a refresher on ethics, maybe a new career.
I don’t think he had a choice being a public defender. He certainly didn’t need a refresher on ethics, maybe a new career.
For those of us in the U.S., I post the following without comment: Highest to Lowest - Prison Population Rate | World Prison Brief (prisonstudies.org)
I will make one minor comment: I live in a city that has been notorious for violent crime. Our murder stats are down almost 50% over the last few years. At the same time, our police department has shrunk, so it's probably not due to more police or harsher sentences. I can't help but think that the macro environment (like historic unemployment) plays a big part in this.
And now Brooklyn. Judging from the targets, I’ll be safe when next in NYC being neither young nor famous. That and I’m sure a Rolex or AP will never be on my wrist.
‘Most of the robberies have happened between 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. and have targeted restaurants that attract celebrities and Brooklyn’s young creative types.’
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/05/nyregion/nyc-restaurant-robberies.html
The moped scooter gang has been on the rise for about a year now. The police finally decided to start cracking down but too little, too late as usual. The illegal migrants coming in get bussed up to NYC and then after 30-60 days, the city gives them the boot, they can reapply, but it's a hassle. So the only thing to do is get a job, but ahhhh, now you have no address, so good luck with that! Sure it's a sanctuary city with outdated right to shelter laws but there's no room for rent-paying tenants let alone feebies for everyone coming to town. So how to make money? Illegally Rent an illegal scooter and run an illegal doordash account or maybe just start stealing phones and shit for gangs that steal all the data from your phone and wipe your bank accounts.
Situational awareness is key. They prey on inattentive victims with noise canceling headphones and eyes glued to a screen, looking at the ground. Boom.
The moped scooter gang has been on the rise for about a year now. The police finally decided to start cracking down but too little, too late as usual. The illegal migrants coming in get bussed up to NYC and then after 30-60 days, the city gives them the boot, they can reapply, but it's a hassle. So the only thing to do is get a job, but ahhhh, now you have no address, so good luck with that! Sure it's a sanctuary city with outdated right to shelter laws but there's no room for rent-paying tenants let alone feebies for everyone coming to town. So how to make money? Illegally Rent an illegal scooter and run an illegal doordash account or maybe just start stealing phones and shit for gangs that steal all the data from your phone and wipe your bank accounts.
Situational awareness is key. They prey on inattentive victims with noise canceling headphones and eyes glued to a screen, looking at the ground. Boom.
I've never trusted anyone who rides a motor scooter always loosers
Gee, Erric, any possibility that at least some of the perpetrators could actually be U.S. citizens who grew up in Brooklyn, have gone off the rails, and decided that crime pays?
The guys running the gangs, probably.
I'm sure you think this is hyperbole, but it's reality.
The guys running the gangs, probably.
I'm sure you think this is hyperbole, but it's reality.
And whose reality would that be?
As someone who lives in New Jersey, you guys know what criminals look like.
I don't need to live in a place to know about a place. Doesn't take much to flip on something other than msnbc or fox telling you everything is amazing and cheery, maybe watch some YouTube videos from people who run small businesses there instead of what corporate media is programmed to tell you this week. Washington Square Park is in disarray, Central Park is a hotbed of thievery, Battery Park is being turned into a refugee camp ... but HEY, I don't know anything.
I'm not suggesting that you don't know anything. I'm respectfully suggesting that you don't know everything, and that perhaps you should reconsider whether to post something that's pretty inflammatory without any evidence or provable facts.
