Well if you go to another country where another race customs are the standard should people not be offended also? There's plenty of races customs and traditions that are celebrated in America. It's just a group of bitter super left wings that wants everyone to stay in their own lanes in terms of culture, fashion and music well also saying we need to blend and mix together. It's really a head scratcher because in order for the blending everything becomes available for use to everyone

Just the title alone is racist I mean if there was a class on the harmful effects of blackness there would be protests also. Just stop playing the division game with race or gender.

Let the community paint it stop hiring professional artists because it's only going to be taken over by graffiti from individuals anyway. I thought it was beautiful before they painted it over personally reminded me of a smaller 5 pointzs

It’s beautiful, nothing like it

To the people that say tear it down Where is traffic from the GWB going to It gets to Manhattan then what

>Asians only care about education and safety. Each ethic group have their own agendas and the liberals definitely do not support the Asian community at all

Its funny how the biggest losses were in Southern Brooklyn which are also communities like Russians, Jews, etc that also care mostly about education and safety.

At some point comparing mega cities like NYC just becomes a matter of pros/cons.

Grifter gonna grift

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Reading the actual description of the workshop, I see nothing wrong with it. If people get offended by the FACT that "white people, their customs, culture, and beliefs operate as the standard by which all others groups are compared" in the United States, then you're just denying reality.

Great job and thanks for enjoying your time here. QQ why was the view at a slammed angle? Thanks

100% you.

But why does NYC always smell like gutter and sewage ? Every time I hit the streets, the smell becomes obnoxious

This^

> We were never truly "tough on crime."

-> US literally has a 10x higher incarceration rate than Germany
-> US was never tough on crime

You're insane

>How do we address the issue of elevated levels of crime in this city?

Let's do that!

Criminologists have been in near uniform agreement for a while now: the biggest cause of crime is poverty.

So if you have any proposals on how to reduce poverty, I'd love to hear them

Crime rates in all other countries dropped just like it did in the US. But they didn't use a "tough on crime" approach to achieve it.

The more likely explanation for why both the US and other countries saw declining crime rates is the banning of lead gasoline and improvements in economic prosperity.

To criminologists, it is also no surprise that crime has been up since the pandemic. Crime rates also saw an uptick during the 2008 financial crisis.

Bad economic times = more crime. Other countries are experiencing a similar uptick in crime without any "bail reform". Surely the recent uptick in crime in Finland isn't caused by NY bail reform, is it?

Every other developed country currently also has their lowest murder rate in a century. But they are locking up 10x fewer people than the US is.

In fact, despite by far having the highest prison population of any country (and it's not even close), the US still has the highest homicide rates of any developed country.

It's almost as if it's not working at all. If locking more people up was working, then the US should have the lowest crime rates of developed countries, not the highest.

I'm gonna just say it, bail reform is a good idea and we should backtrack on it. What we should do is have a conversation and legislation around holding people in jail based on recidivism and dangerousness. Obviously there were previous issues with those standards being racist but let's fix that and make them more clear-cut and not let people with multiple violent charges back in the street while awaiting trial.

So true.

They want simple stencil art with no more than four colors🤮

Was better with more than one style and organic development. All the colors and chaos. No top down gatekeeper-chosen art please!

There's probably so many empty offices now.

Lol I feel the same walking to work. While also pondering "I wonder what's going in those buildings?"

We already have statues that compensate families for wrongful death. It’s a horribly written law that would let random cousins, uncles, nephews sue without limitation. And would dramatically increase the costs of litigation for every lawsuit, no matter how frivolous. We’re suddenly going to monetize grief for extended family when someone dies? The only people that would get rich from this are plaintiff’s attorneys.

Who is asking for this exactly?

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