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NetQuarterLatte t1_j06t4ah wrote

Reply to Fire Erupts at an N.Y.P.D. Evidence Center in Brooklyn by mowotlarx

>“We expect the N.Y.P.D. and district attorneys to provide us a full accounting of the evidence that was damaged and to immediately inform defense counsel about individual cases that may have been impacted,” said Redmond Haskins, a spokesman for the Legal Aid Society, one of the city’s largest providers of legal services for indigent clients.

In plain words: this is a Christmas bonanza for the Legal Aid.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_izfbs2f wrote

Reply to comment by brianvan in New York’s ‘zombie’ office towers teeter as interest rates rise by rootbeer_racinette

I think there's no finish line.

The fact that we have tons of empty storefronts and empty office space suggests it's too hard for new businesses to be created.

If existing employees are stuck in shitty jobs because they employers suck, creating new opportunities will move the needle on job safety and empowerment more than any regulation that intents to improve workers' position.

On the other hand, if we had physical limitations on commercial space available (all storefronts busy, say with skyrocketing commercial rents), I think the marginal low hanging fruit would be different and my criticism would be aimed at something else.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_izf4jh2 wrote

Reply to comment by brianvan in New York’s ‘zombie’ office towers teeter as interest rates rise by rootbeer_racinette

Yup. Employer collusion distorts the market, so employers colluding against the employees hurts all the employees. Post-employment non-compete clauses are also really problematic, in my view.

On unions, I don't mind company-specific unions, though if we get to that point, in my opinion, the market should've been competition-friendly enough so that the employees should be empowered to just walk to a competitor or quit en-mass and create their own company...

However, I oppose industry-wide unions, because that also tends to hurts small businesses and most employees.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_izf1jfb wrote

Reply to comment by brianvan in New York’s ‘zombie’ office towers teeter as interest rates rise by rootbeer_racinette

>So it should instead be too risky to work for anyone?

Employees should have negotiation leverage by being able to easily change jobs.

That famed bill will protect a minority of employees (who would've otherwise be fired), but it would weaken the available opportunities for everyone else. Ultimately, that will only help the big employers and the few employees who are no longer fit for their position.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_iz6ieac wrote

Reply to comment by oddfuture in Adams says mental illness leads to crime by DrogDrill

They do mention the issues of increasing policing in cities with large Black populations in the south and the mid-west.

Maybe they didn't mention anything about the representation of the police force explicitly (and perhaps will be a subject of follow up studies), but I think you know how the police force in those regions look like.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_iz6cyqv wrote

Reply to comment by oddfuture in Adams says mental illness leads to crime by DrogDrill

Like we all know that assigning a full white police force to police a black community is not a good recipe.

That's why it's important when cops represent the demographics of the communities they serve. This used to be what the progressive agenda advocated for.

But now we have this new brand of "progressiveness" that just want to defund the police or even go against police training to reduce brutality.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_iz5zz6y wrote

Reply to comment by ViennettaLurker in Adams says mental illness leads to crime by DrogDrill

Cops save lives though. Deterrence is a lot better than incarceration.

>Williams and his colleagues find adding a new police officer to a city prevents between 0.06 and 0.1 homicides. [...] Adding more police, they find, also reduces other serious crimes, like robbery, rape, and aggravated assault.
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>Even more, Williams and his coauthors find that, in the average city, larger police forces result in Black lives saved at about twice the rate of white lives saved (relative to their percentage of the population). When you consider African Americans are much more likely to live in dense, poverty-stricken areas with high homicide rates — leading to more opportunities for police officers to potentially prevent victimization — that may help explain this finding.
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>While they find serious crimes fall after the average city expands its police force, the economists find that arrests for serious crimes also fall. The simultaneous reduction of both serious crime and arrests for serious crime suggests it's not arrests that are driving the reduction. Instead, it suggests merely having more police officers around drives it. These findings are consistent with other research that finds concentrating police in "hotspot" crime areas appears to be an effective way to reduce crime.

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NetQuarterLatte OP t1_iyuffab wrote

Reply to comment by srpokemon in NYC woman pummeled at Columbia University China COVID protest by NetQuarterLatte

> ask me if you want to learn about US involvement in Chinese governmental structures. either way, you should stick to partisan crime discussion, its a lot easier to understand

Your attempt at whataboutism sounds almost like an admission.

Because it sounds like you believe the predicate (“if it’s a foreign agent …”) is true and that you’re trying to respond to that.

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