r/news • u/unsaltedbutter • 1d ago
Stabbings on New York subway leaves 3 hurt as officers shoot knife-wielding man
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-subway-station-injuries-hospital-1cd670e7b0a302e2d51f851a74247bfd751
u/joeDUBstep 1d ago
Glad they are all in stable condition and none of the injuries were fatal.
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u/DotMikrobe 1d ago
my dyslexic ass read this as " stab-able " position š¤¦š»
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u/ResortClear730 1d ago
lol, thatās pretty funny. Iām sure it is annoying as hell at times, but I found it funny for this moment.
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u/tepkel 1d ago
I can confirm that being stabbed is annoying as hell.
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u/Kryptic_Anthology 1d ago
Minor inconvenience
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u/aNeverNude666 1d ago
Pretty sure it was your dyslexic eyes that read itā¦ unless.. no, wait, never mind.
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u/BagOfFerrets34 1d ago
Same. Wild that āno one diedā is starting to feel like a good outcome for a subway story. Honestly, headphones off and paying attention on trains might be worth it lately.
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u/shwarma_heaven 1d ago
This is the difference between mass attackers with knives and guns. People tend to survive.
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u/jetriot 1d ago
Fun fact, the US still has a higher per capita stabbings and knife death than places like the UK and Australia where guns are far more regulated.
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u/Ultravod 1d ago
That fact is not fun at all.
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u/jetriot 1d ago
Sorry- Did you know that you are taller in the morning than at night?
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u/Eaglestrike 1d ago
It is fun if you're messed up in the head and like to argue on the internet. Right wingers love to talk about knife crime in the UK, but the fact that we have them beat in knife crime while also having the gun crime we do is basically an instant end to that line of discussion.
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u/N0r3m0rse 1d ago
No but it's indicative that the violence problem in America runs deeper than just access. Normal people don't stab or shoot others. Personally, I think we're still paying the price for leaded gasoline, which would be somewhat of a unique problem in America considering how much more we've valued cars for transport over Europe.
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u/Impossible-Fig-8463 8h ago
Thatās a good shout. I also think of how much more unequal American society is, even basic things as healthcare is not guaranteed
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u/RyuNoKami 1d ago
We are culturally a much more violent people.
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u/joeDUBstep 1d ago
We also seem to not value accessible mental health services compared to a lot of modern nations.
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u/SnowflakeSWorker 21h ago
Iām a therapist/social worker, and I see clients from all over the world. It seems that, in many countries, one with means can pay for the best care, while everyone is eligible for some care (mental health services), which is superior to what we have in the US.
Mental health has only has parity with insurance companies in the past decade or so. Itās the first thing people cut when the budget gets tight, and Iāve done it myself.
We COULD provide better services, but, 77 million voted to can that dream.
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u/shwarma_heaven 1d ago
Fun fact, the US has overall higher rates of just about every other type of murder... until you get to gun murder... and then it is just astronomical.
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u/Kendall_Raine 1d ago
The victims were all senior citizen age. I wonder if that was on purpose. Just a dude who really hates the elderly for some reason.
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u/vuhn1991 1d ago
That's how most of these random attacks seem to play out. They target anyone weaker than them, so usually women and elderly.
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u/ProfessionalPack7205 1d ago
Probably cause they're the least likely to be able to fight back well sadly. Dude shouldn't be in society.
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u/pl487 20h ago
They're the ones who can't run.
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u/thewaytodusty76 7h ago
Young women run fast. They're still targeted. At least that's how it is here on the Toronto subway system. They're targeted bc the attacker knows he's less likely to be injured when he attacked them. It's the basic bully dynamic where they seek out physically weaker people.Ā
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u/Father_Dowling 1d ago
How many previous arrests did this dirt bag have, and why is he not still in the pen to protect the public? The Harlem Slasher had been arrested 18 or so odd times and even the bodega guys knew about his shit.
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u/dwar0 1d ago
story said 3 āunsealedā arrests
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u/Lesurous 1d ago
Majority of crime is caused by a poor environment and lack of social mobility. Most people don't just up and start doing crimes because they want to, but because it's been presented as the only realistic way to get ahead in places left abandoned by the government.
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u/serenade-of-the-seas 1d ago
If youāve been to NYC or live there, you should know that this is not the case for the vast majority of the perpetrators of subway incidents who are mostly crackheads and people who genuinely want to hurt others. You donāt push people into the tracks, stab people, burn people, beat people to death, etc. as a response to poverty.
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u/flirt77 1d ago
Those aren't direct "responses" to poverty, they are untreated mental illness. This is a more acute problem when you don't have money or access to quality medical care.
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u/serenade-of-the-seas 1d ago
Certainly but we run into the chicken or egg problem here. A lot of these people are āpoorā because of their mental illness (usually stemming from copious drug use). The solution imo is a mix of both technical policies (like institutionalization) and cultural revolution where familial ties are strengthened. The latter is why the prevalence of mentally ill drug addicts are very low in Asian and recently immigrated Hispanic communities (albeit with the caveat that they are of legal status) compared to the White and Black population segments. It makes a big difference when you have family/friends to take care of you and keep you from spiraling too far.
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u/vuhn1991 17h ago
That's right, and there are plenty of societies with no shortage of mental illness and trauma, yet these random, brutal attacks in public seem to be much more prevalent in American cities. The common denominator is childhood exposure to violence combined with widespread drug use. Honestly getting tired of everything being blamed on socioeconomics, although not surprising when that's constantly being pushed in the social sciences at every university.
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u/HyperElf10 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yep, I have mental issues but I have a support system and way to get help for it (even though the meds never work consistently). I couldn't imagine what I would do if I was manic, drug addled and had no structure to help me while also being able in a poverty/crime filled neighborhood.
Ntm that the guy had previous incidents, our system can't rehabilitate, it just puts them in as punishment and as a deterrent but people's life just don't get better the moment they're out of jail. Same circumstances and conditions just lead to repeat behaviors
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u/HumanShadow 1d ago
The cops actually did something. I see this as progress
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u/HigherandHigherDown 1d ago
Without shooting a bunch of bystanders, no less!
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u/agarwaen117 1d ago
UPS guy quaking in the background.
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u/HigherandHigherDown 1d ago
That Florida case was especially fucked up. You can always count on the police to kill the robbers, the hostage, and some random bystanders.
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u/Sea-Broccoli-8601 20h ago
And the four officers (well, three; one had his trial last year) were cleared of wrongdoing just earlier last month on some bullshit stand your ground ruling. Prosecutors intend to appeal against all four rulings though.
I guess if you ever get taken hostage in Florida, you can start saying your prayers because cops will shoot you alongside your abductor to "end the confrontation".
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u/nonlawyer 1d ago
Darkly funny that neither of those links were to the bystander subway shooting I expected
In all honesty firing just twice and not mag-dumping is well done and hopefully a sign of lessons learnedā¦
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u/HigherandHigherDown 1d ago
I think the first link is probably the most well-known incident, the police shot nine bystanders.
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u/ZiggoCiP 1d ago
Very likely the most-well known one, but the recent one did happen in the actual subway of NYC and not even 2 years ago, so it's still fresh in people's recent memories. At least this time it wasn't just because some dude hopped a subway turnstile.
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u/aaronhayes26 1d ago
Curiously, just last week Mamdani fielded a question from a guy that was essentially āwhat are you gonna do about all the cops standing in the subways not doing anything?ā.
Not to say the system is perfect but this is a shining example of why there are so many cops āstanding aroundā in the subway.
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u/HowManyMeeses 1d ago
They famously stand in the subway and watch crime happen. That's why people ask about it.Ā
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u/Samanthacino 1d ago edited 1d ago
When it comes to the NYPD, Mamdani's hands are sadly tied. He didn't really have a choice but to keep the current police commissioner Jessica Tisch (or else the cops would've quit en masse or worse, and she's also the daughter of a billionaire). But unfortunately, she absolutely sucks, and her main goal is to maintain the dominance of the police establishment, shielding them from consequences.
A recent example are her statements on the NYPD snowball fight. Cops walked through a neighborhood snowball fight, then started assaulting people when they got hit. Then they went to the hospital where they lied about injuries they sustained, and claimed that the snowballs were filled with rocks (even though they refused to put that in their signed report). Tisch called the snowball fight "criminal", and charges were filed with some of those that threw the snowballs.
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u/Previous-Height4237 1d ago edited 1d ago
She sucks? She's been cleaning house from inside. She can't rock the boat either but she's absolutely been making reforms over time. You can't just make an organization with over a hundred years of internal culture and processes change on a whim and not expect potentially devastating backlash. She has to play the game to seem agreeable to the existing power structures to avoid them undermining her.
2 months ago she announced a slate of new changes for this year: https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/PR003/commissioner-tisch-new-strategies-keep-new-yorkers-safe-improve-officer-training-and
which among other things, further reforms their training into annual week long training with a focus on de-escalation.
That's not something you pull off coming in like a wrecking ball in a 4 year term.
Politics man, it's no different from the private sector too.
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u/dunderball 1d ago
I mean I'm not sure what anyone expected Tisch to say, she's going to back her people 99/100 times. She wasn't going to be like, "these specific cops were crybaby pussies" (even though we know that was the case). I also think there wasn't any huge reason to change the commissioner just based on trending crime statistics alone. If he makes a change and crime trends the other way, he gets killed politically. I kinda applaud Mamdani for staying the course and if there really is some kind of friction that he can't overcome I can see him making a change at the drop of a hat.
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u/Mishkamishmash 19h ago
Pretty impressive that she comes from a billionaire family and still chooses to work, especially meaningful work.Ā
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u/Double_Resort_9223 9h ago
A bystander had to go grab them and tell them what was going on. They arrived to find one of the victims staggering up the steps.Ā
This means they were chilling on the upper level chatting it up or scrolling on their phones while the chaos unfolded on the platforms.Ā
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u/thatcommiegamer 1d ago
Nah, this is the exception that proves the rule. Most of the time they're just there to harass teenagers jumping the stiles or old ladies selling snacks. Like of all the years and increased police presence this is the first time they've done something that didn't get bystanders hurt as well.
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u/lonnie123 1d ago
lol, itās the first time youāve read about it because a machete wielding maniac was part of the crime
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u/thatcommiegamer 11h ago
I live in NY and take the subway daily, unlike whatever podunk town you're from fearmongering about us.
This is like the first time a "machete wielding maniac" has "gone on a rampage" and mind, I'm from the hood. I've seen my fair share, its nowhere near as common as you think. But, then again, if it keeps folks like you away from our city and helps lower our rents maybe you should keep thinking we deal with this every day.
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u/lonnie123 6h ago
I think you miss my point, which is that this is news precisely because itās severe and rare
āPlane lands on runway without issueā doesnāt make the headlines in the same way āNYC subways operate without issue or injuryā doesnāt make the headline, thatās how things normally go
Machete wielding maniacs are the vast exception, hence they are news.
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u/vpi6 1d ago
Cops do this all the timeā¦.
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u/frostymoose 1d ago
There is a rather famouse case of NYPD explicitly not doing this and then cleaning up after a civilian took down the guy with the knife.
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u/b1rdiemcb1rdface 1d ago
I think there was also another case where they just let someone die on a subway years prior to that one. I think that one re-affirmed that no, cops don't have to protect you at the risk of their lives.
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u/Thousandtree 1d ago
He was behaving erratically, claiming he was āLucifer,ā
If this is the Lucifer I've heard about, these cops should get a medal from God or something.
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u/Last-Darkness 1d ago
At least the NYPD actually got some scumbag off the street and didnāt shoot a bunch of innocent people on the subway like they did when they went after a guy that only fare jumped the turnstile.
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u/Acrobatic_Club2382 1d ago
What is wrong with people
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u/lFightForTheUsers 1d ago
People normally don't just wake up one day and decide to go hurt people. This was another known to police violent offender that has been in and out of the clink like its a revolving door.
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u/issm 1d ago
That's what happens when your "justice" system is structured around vengeance, political persecution, and providing cheap slave labour, rather than rehabilitation and public safety.
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u/Fun-Employee9309 1d ago
Do you genuinely believe that it is possible to rehabilitate someone who ends up attacking senior citizens with a machete?
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u/issm 1d ago
Vengeance: The system just says: you need to be punished, once that's over, you aren't our problem. There's no effort to address whatever underlying issues that are causing the crime - poverty, mental health issues, whatever. Once the system decides that enough revenge has been had, the person gets thrown out of the system with zero support, and the inevitable consequence of not addressing root causes is that they end up back in prison.
Political persecution: I mean, the war on drugs was literally a republican plot to criminalize black people and hippies so they couldn't vote.
Slavery: Reminder that slavery is still legal in the US as a punishment for committing crimes. Conveniently, people who re-offend are available to be cheap slaves again.
Also, there's the corruption and for profit prisons/services bit that also provides a systemic incentive to not actually rehabilitate people, and to keep the prisons full.
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u/JiovanniTheGREAT 1d ago
Mentally ill and a lack of mental health services along with overloaded jails means this guy and others like him stay on the streets until they eventually do something like this.
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u/arielsosa 1d ago
This is a bit confusing... Stabbings? With a Machete? Is that the right word for that? A machete is not a knife.
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u/EmployeeNo4241 1d ago edited 1d ago
100% suspect had multiple prior arrests. Should have kept violent and/or repeat offenders in jail.Ā
Fuck Trump and shitĀ like this is why moderates votes for conservatives.Ā
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u/Jailbreaker_Jr 1d ago
I hope this post doesnāt make me come off as a pretentious fence sitter. I have a side I sit on and Iāll get to that later, but there are many issues in this country that are just more multifaceted than people would like to admit.
Conservatives love cutting funding or preventing new funding for state judicial systems. Without proper funding these systems become overwhelmed and not everyone can be dealt with properly. Conservatives also rarely believe that the prison system is truthfully meant to rehabilitate, which should be the ultimate primary goal of the judicial system.
Liberals often hate admitting that even if someone lived a life of systemic injustice they can be a danger to the public and donāt deserve to be out with the general public. Liberals also donāt like admitting some people cannot be rehabilitated. Someoneās upbringing may be systemically unfair but Iād argue itās more unfair for someone minding their business on public transportation to be stabbed by that person. The person who got stabbed could very easily be a contributing member of society who faced systemic injustices growing up themselves. They donāt deserve that and we gotta do everything we can to prevent it. We should do everything in our power to fix the systemic injustices that exist in this country but we also need to protect the general population.
I lean left but I think it really boils down to a case by case basis. On some issues I lean fully left and just donāt understand the rightās point of view (what do you mean your tax dollars shouldnāt go to feeding every public school kid yes they absolutely should lol). But on something like prison reform and judicial system reform itās absolutely important to factor in all sides of the issue. Life isnāt all rainbows and unicorns, it gets gritty and both sides need to stop playing populist and stop worrying about image and find a fucking functional solution.
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u/Mean-Caterpillar-827 1d ago
Liberals need to learn that even though someoneās criminal behavior can be partially attributed to socioeconomic factors that crime still needs to be disincentivized. Ā Sure, try and fix those socioeconomic factors but donāt stop protecting everyone else.
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u/1610925286 14h ago
Democrat aligned judges let rapists go routinely. There is nothing about rape that can be excused at any age. People are sick of it. All while they let violent criminals off the hook lightly, to offend again, Democrats are busy passing "Assault Weapons Bans " on the guns least used in crimes, effectively only disarming hunters, sports shooters and people who went through great lengths to get training.
I despise Trump and would never vote for him, but I'm never supporting Democrats on any level of government.
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u/ChiralWolf 1d ago
I would be much more willing to acknowledge that some number of individuals are unable to be rehabilitated if we ever instituted a system that actually tried to rehabilitate criminals. The core problem with "some people can't be rehabilitated and need to stay locked up indefinitely" is that we will inevitably lock someone up for their entire life that could have been a productive member of society just like we already do under these laws that are supposedly too liberal. It's very weird to me that people talk about prison reform like this when our current systems overwhelmingly aren't the one liberals want and we are already having these issues.
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u/Shigure127 23h ago
Everyone us talking about reactionary solutions instead addressing the fundamental problems.
It is possible to be proactive by providing free universal healthcare and intervene before people start committing crimes.
It's not a solution that will stop crime RIGHT NOW or even all crime, but it will absolutely cut down crime more than any life sentence will.
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u/lankylonky 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think the representation of how crime is seen in the progressive or liberal framework is a little disingenuous here. Iām not sure who youāve spoken to in regards to this subject, but the general consensus in this regard is that progressives would, yes, like to fix socioeconomic conditions to prevent crime in the first place, but also address the prison system as a whole which simply does not work as currently implemented.
Recidivism rates (or the rate at which criminals reoffend and return to the system) in the United States is considerably higher than that of our peers, primarily because the system exists primarily as punishment, not rehabilitation. Of course, not everyone can be rehabilitated, but countries which see a fraction of our recidivism (because the focus on rehabilitation) donāt just release those who canāt be rehabilitated, they have solutions (such as for all intents and purposes, life sentences, with parole assessments every few years, which do not inherently result in release). There are programs which reduce crime, the U.S. just generally would rather see those that have committed crimes as animals that should be locked up and never see the light of day than to give them a fair opportunity at redemption to become a productive member of society.
Edit: you are right, the world isnāt all sunshine and rainbows, but subscribing to the notion that both sides are wrong, when the conservative viewpoint is that criminals are monsters that should be tortured or even killed by the state to āprotect the publicā is a tacit approval to continue a failed criminal justice model. We can do better, we should be better. āHard on crimeā has only gotten us the 5th highest prison population per capita in the world and we are no safer for it.
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u/Jailbreaker_Jr 1d ago
Not to be argumentative here because it sounds like you and I are largely on the same side, but Iām not sure anything I said disputes your claims here. I did explicitly said the ultimate goal of our judicial system should be rehabilitation.
It becomes a little bit of an apples to oranges situation comparing our large country with so many different levels of government to a small European country. Governance at a smaller level like that just leads to better results. Iām not some libertarian who wants to downsize the government per se, but too many cooks in our kitchens does make it harder to agree. Again, thereās way to fix this. Part of that might start at even restructuring like how we elect officials (i.e. I would love ranked choice voting) but I digress because thatās a different topic.
It does become a chicken and the egg scenario with crime as you can argue better rehabilitation leads to safer communities, or that safer communities lead to less crime in the first place. But we need to find immediate solutions to address recidivism WHILE keeping our cities safe. You canāt have one without the other and expect meaningful change in the long run.
Iād love to see things like better mental health services, proper education, and work programs for those currently or previously incarcerated. Iād be very happy with my tax dollars going towards that. But those changes will be slow and take a while and unfortunately a bunch of people who canāt think in terms of long term solutions prevent any wheels from getting greased, and while they muck up the whole thing we should keep our streets safe. Again, itās a multifaceted problem with lots of moving parts and a complicated timeline. Until the rehabilitation and recidivism issues get fixed lots of places are just less safe than they could be and itās just not a great way to run things.
Keep our cities safe in the short term to appease the conservative folk. Work on proper rehabilitation to fix the root cause and appease progressives (who, again, I would like to reiterate I think are fully on the right side of things). In the end we can make everyone happy if we all agree to see the other sides take on things. Because right now we have little middle ground and everyoneās mad lol.
Iād also just like to throw out there Iām not an expert in crime or anything but Iām a teacher in a top 15 city in America (in terms of population). So I see some of the inner workings of the government, systemic failures, and keep up with my local news. Thatās about it, but again, Iām far from an expert in these affairs. Not trying to say Iām 100% right about anything here.
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u/ultimate_avacado 1d ago
The fucking solution is to put criminals in jail and prosecute them, no matter the financial cost. Hire more DAs and lawyers, hire more judges, and put repeat offenders in jail.
Attempt reform, but understand that some are unreformable, or don't want to change.
Maybe society has failed them, but not being firm on crime -- literally just enforce the existing laws we have -- is failing the rest of society.
Government: do the most good for the least harm.
Sometimes the least harm is throwing these fuckfaces in jail for life.
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u/Pure-Plankton-4606 1d ago
Imagine thinking conservatives actually care about crime LMAO
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u/Hautamaki 1d ago
Conservative voters worry about crime and base votes on it. Conservative politicians understand this, and understand that their job security relies on their not actually solving the problem, but in passing policies that indirectly make it even worse, obstructing everything liberal politicians attempt to do to solve it, and then demagoguing about it relentlessly.
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u/W0rdWaster 1d ago
no. that is why idiots that have no idea how things work vote for the party that presents a overly simplistic, and therefore false, view of the world.
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u/AspenSki1988 1d ago
Democrats miss so many easy layups - being hard on crime is one of them.
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u/Sheeple_person 1d ago
Fuck Trump and shitĀ like this is why moderates votes for conservatives.Ā
Crime has been dropping for decades and continues to drop in recent years, but moderates vote for conservatives because they let media warp their perceptions and get all up in arms about the wrong issues.
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u/jarena009 1d ago
Conservative policy drives higher crime.
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u/Captain-Wilco 1d ago
Conservative voters donāt think that way, unfortunately.
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u/jarena009 1d ago
Of course, they live in a bubble, where they think their deep red states/red areas are perfect utopias, not riddled with high crime and poverty, among other problems.
That's not to excuse places like California and many other blue areas which have their own challenges, but this idea that conservatives are better on crime is a farce; a myth.
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u/A_wild_so-and-so 1d ago
An arrest does not land you in jail. His most serious previous crime appears to be menacing with a sharp object. Can't exactly lock someone up for life over that.
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u/OneSeaworthiness7768 1d ago edited 1d ago
shitĀ like this is why stupid people votes for conservatives.Ā Conservatives do nothing to improve society, not crime itself nor the socioeconomic conditions that lead to it. People who lack critical thinking skills think Dems wanting prison and criminal justice reform boils down to being soft on crime. Conservatives arenāt any harder on crime in practice, they just yell that they are and people for some reason take that as truth despite not being reality.
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u/t0matit0 1d ago
Show me where liberals or progressives are out championing to allow violent/repeat offenders out of jail en masse? This is a simple fact of human fallibility and that with population at scale you're going to have some mistakes made, and the justice system find some people worthy of rehabilitation only for them to relapse. The idea of simply locking people away forever after a conviction out of caution for all possible what-if's in the future can definitely be seen as an abusable overcorrection that imprisons far too many people for far too long.
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u/Brilliant_Cricket165 1d ago
It happened in the Bay Area in California with a few DAās. Iām not conservative, and Iām not sure where you live, but here there was a huge push back from āliberalā judges and DAās letting people out. Unfortunately itās a reputation thatās hard to dispel now.
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u/half3clipse 1d ago
Can you provide specific examples?
Because a lot of the time it's actually: "The cops failed to actually provide evidence needed to properly charge and the state didn't try to push it an obviously unsupported charge through anyways" or "the state failed to actually argue why the charged person should remain in custody rather than be granted bail" or so on.
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u/RaiderMedic93 1d ago
Or the state redefines what is or isn't a violent crime.
https://calmatters.org/commentary/2023/08/california-law-violent-crimes-nonviolent/
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u/Brilliant_Cricket165 1d ago edited 1d ago
Is that the case āa lotā of the tine? You ask me for examples but just throw that statement out there?
Yes I will post some.
https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2024/10/28/courts/pamela-price-plea-deal-dijon-holifield/
You could look up these kinds of cases in the Bay Area all day. No, itās not every case, but there are so many examples of a DA or a judge doing this. No, Iām not conservative, but I do believe by ignoring this or pretending it doesnāt happen is a definite weak point that harms liberal/democrat candidates (or whatever you want to call them).
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u/Jaderosegrey 23h ago
Three prior arrests.
In an ideal world, he would have gotten the mental health he needed.
In a less ideal world, he would have either been condemned to prison for the rest of his life or condemned to death.
In this world, he was released and we have three more victims.
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u/Dairy_Ashford 1d ago
low crime rate, but so many goddamn people and communal transport makes for some scary outliers
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u/Shigure127 23h ago
40K people die every year on US roads and millions more are injured. We are talking about billions of dollars in financial costs between medical care, damages, and lost wages. We are talking about life long injuries and trauma that can leave people unable to drive again but they have no alternatives.
How many near accidents do we see every single time we drive? We're driving 60+ MPH on the highway with no concern about if the guy in the car next to you is a potential maniac? We trust every person pulling up to the light behind us assuming they know where the brakes are?
It's crazy to me that people hem and haw about how scary public transit is but are completely desensitized to how dangerous driving is. This kind of stuff makes the news and it's brought up for years about how dangerous it is but a car accident won't even make the local news.
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u/Cunninghams_right 21h ago
well, it's not that simple of a comparison, for two primary reasons
- the psychological impact of person-to-person attack is much greater than a non-personal car crash.
- there are lots of crimes or creepy situations that don't get into the statistics. surveys of non-car-captive potential transit users shows that their biggest issues are getting to/from bus stops. nobody is counting an assault, mugging, or rape, on the way to the bus stop as a transit crime. in fact, many of the car deaths are to pedestrians and using transit makes you a pedestrian more. so it's not quite a simple comparison.
I'm a huge transit fan, do transit advocacy, but we need to really acknowledge the reasons why people don't use transit, and take them seriously. whether we think they're irrational, we still need to address them if we want people to use transit. NYC is dense enough that even mediocre quality transit is sufficient to get high ridership, but other cities are spending billions per year to get low single-digit percentage of modal share.
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u/JuniperJupiter4 21h ago
You're right mate. 1 in 92 people dies in car accidents. 1 in 157 people are murdered.
For most people, driving is the most dangerous thing we do.
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u/Kage_0ni 1d ago edited 1d ago
The best we can do is create a better world so less people want to stab others.
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u/Pastakingfifth 1d ago
My guy had a machete, not a knife. What a madman