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Bjj-lyfe t1_je138op wrote

Personally, it elicited an interesting sense of amusement and awe at the layers of stupidity within it: car selfie, flipping off camera, dressed in work uniform, the work uniform is a police officer (designed to uphold common decency in society via law enforcement), deciding to take the picture, sharing it with others or being careless in a way that it is now publicly viewed on the internet.

It is forsure an interesting cultural artifact

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smallskeletal t1_je12z2f wrote

We got a taste of what Public Transit in this City could be under Byford, but Cuomo didn’t like being “outshined” and forced him out. We deserve better than our public transit being held hostage by the cronies of whoever is in the governors office

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andydh96 t1_je0ttky wrote

You either didn't ready my comment carefully or purposely misinterpreted it, so I'll make it easier for you.

I said bail reform is not the SOLE CAUSE of crime increase -- that's easy to see from crime stats nationally that likewise show increases in non-bail reform states and locales. But neither did I say that COVID was the sole cause -- that too would be disingenuous and an overly-simplistic conclusion (same as your stance which seems to be only blaming bail reform). Effects can have multiple causes -- this is why statistical analyses exist to calculate how much of the increase we can attribute to one factor versus another.

I would suggest against looking at global crime statistics, its like comparing apples and oranges (besides the fact that reported data for many countries are unreliable). Too many different variables across countries makes the comparison far less useful than comparing among states for making policy decisions based off those statistical trends.

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natekrinsky OP t1_je0ptkz wrote

Sure there could be reasons that landlords don't want to offer a renewal lease. The most obvious one is they think they could get more money from someone else. But a tenant's ability to stay in their homes is more important than a landlord's ability to make more money. I'm sure some people here would disagree with that but I think it's common sense that the human need of New York's 5.6 million renters should be prioritized over the business interests of relatively few landlords, the vast majority of which are corporate entities.

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