New York City Council is a 51-member body that is overwhelmingly Democrat; there are only five elected Republican members and one that recently flipped from Democrat to Republican. Under former Mayor de Blasio’s rule, City Council spasmodically lurched insane, er, Left. It has continued on this trajectory under Mayor Adams. He has the ability to rein in the council, so, it follows that they’re all in the same ship.
City Council has brought us such gems as voting on unconstitutional legislation to give the then 800,000 non-citizen New Yorkers the right to vote in local elections. It was ultimately struck down by a judge. It passed a legislative package on DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion). It has strengthened the Green New Deal (2019 Climate Mobilization Act), whatever this is, “to ensure that New York continues to be a leader in the global fight against climate change.” By the way, this “global fight” excludes three-quarters of the world. It introduced Intro 632, which, if passed, will disallow landlords from doing background checks on murderers and rapists. And, City Council voted to defund NYPD and to pass a resolution ending qualified immunity for police officers.
Just in time for the November 2023 City Council elections, the Democrats up for re-election are panicked. No matter how anti-NYPD they remain according to their own rhetoric, they can no longer convince their constituents to believe their lying eyes. Crime is terrible. This is despite the Left’s insistence that “violence interrupters”, tearing down jails and flooding the streets with criminals, and fewer arrests and even fewer convictions under a “social justice” framework, is utopia. It is hell.
As per the New York Post, “The streets of New York are meaner than they’ve been in more than 15 years thanks to soaring felony crimes, new police data reveal. More than 170,000 felony crimes were reported in the Big Apple last year — the most since 2006, when the NYPD first started making such statistics publicly available. The data, released last week, shows a record 172,852 felonies reported in 2022. That’s up 20.4% from 2021, when 143,522 complaints were recorded. ‘Things in a large city aren’t supposed to grow that much or go down that much in one year,’ said Former NYPD supervisor Chris Hermann.”
The Democrats on the City Council go by multiple names, it’s hard to keep up. But the oxymoronic Democrat Socialists and the Progressives are distinctly the most anti-law-abiding citizen faction of the Democrats.
In order to be a part of the Progressive club in City Council, one must sign a “Statement of Principles.” What are the principles? Being pro-criminal. Thirty-five of the Democrat members were asked to pledge allegiance to priorities for this year’s budget negotiations with Mayor Adams. These include housing, education, sustainability, and law enforcement funding. “We will do everything we can to reduce the size and scope of the NYPD and the Department of Correction, and prioritize and fund alternative safety infrastructure that truly invests in our communities.”
The Progressive Caucus has lost fifteen members; it’s down from thirty-five to twenty. The pro-criminal, delusion, and race obsessed wackos are up for re-election. In order to defeat them in their Democratic primary, people across America should flood their less insane opponents with support and flush the Republican opposition with money, social media aid, and volunteers, lest one is in favor of tax money from functioning states be sent to support the dysfunction in New York City.
Here’s a list of the Progressive Caucus’ top four members that want to abolish the NYPD; Brooklyn Councilman Lincoln Restler, Brooklyn Councilwoman Shahana Hanif, Brooklyn Councilwoman Jennifer Gutierrez and Manhattan Councilwoman Carmen De La Rosa.
Also in the group are Manhattan District 1 Christopher Marte, Manhattan District 2 Carlina Rivera, Bronx District 14 Pierina Sanchez, Bronx District 16 Althea Stevens, Bronx District 18 Amanda Farias, Queens District 22 Tiffany Caban, Queens District 25 Shekar Krishnan, Queens District 26 Julie Won, Queens District 27 Nantasha Williams, Brooklyn District 34 Jennifer Guitiérez, Brooklyn District 35 Crystal Hudson, Brooklyn District 26 Chi Ossé, Brooklyn District 37 Sandy Nurse, Brooklyn District 38 Alexa Aviles, Brooklyn District 40 Rita Joseph, and Brooklyn District 42 Charles Barron.
These twenty Progressives have much in common; they’re uber privileged, young, majority minority, and preside over districts that have suffered tremendous spikes in crime. They could care less. These hypocrites benefit from private security details paid for by taxpayers. They also have qualified immunity that indemnifies them from being sued when their deadly dangerous policies get people killed or raped.
To illustrate, less than a week ago, a reporter said to Mayor Adams “Let me ask you about shoplifting,” Eloquent Adams said, “I’m sorry, who?” The reporter repeats, “shoplifting, particularly with how a lot of the drugstores are handling it. They’re putting a lot of everyday items… under lock and key. A lot of people have commented that this gives the impression that the city isn’t safe.
Adams says, “Right.” The reporter continues; “Is this a practice that is here to stay and what have you asked the NYPD to do to address this?” Adams responded,” This is a national problem.” (Yeah, in Democrat hellholes). Adams continues, “I personally think that social media has played a role in spreading this, you know, of having people walk in with shopping carts, you know, and just really stealing whatever they want.”
Mayor Adams might say from time to time, unlike his Democrat City Council counterparts, that he is pro law and order, but he isn’t a serious person. He blames social media for crime. City Council blames the victims.
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The liberals in New York vote for these traitors on the New York City Council, so I have no sympathy for these brain dead voters. Let crime eat all of these socialist voters alive!
Me neither. IN FACT< if i was all the cops, i'd just MASS QUIT AND LEAVE THE city to its doom!
And they will pay a well-deserved dear price.
Duly elected Democrat criminals, now governing a city of criminals. A city like San Francisco, approaching the need to be totally walled off from the rest of the nation and dealt with as if the entire city was a well walled prison, filled with thieves, murderers, rapists, arsonists and total American traitors. Sane Christian traditional Americans are beginning to understand the mindset of God when he incinerated Sodom and Gomorrah because he could not find even 10 righteous men left within the city limits, and certainly not within today’s New York Democrat party of hell raisers, raising the entire city of New York to the status of an insane American institutional Democrat Disco inferno where anything goes, and the criminals are allowed to police themselves, paid for by the beguiled now fleeing New York Taxpayers of course, crying to heaven to just “Let My People Go”
“NYC Democrats Pledge To Do ‘Everything We Can’ To Defund NYPD”
“The streets of New York are more dangerous than ever, with the highest number of felony crimes in 15 years, according to new police statistics.
In 2022, over 170,000 felony crimes were reported, the most since 2006 when the NYPD first started sharing such statistics publicly, marking a 20.4% increase from 2021, when 143,522 complaints were recorded.”
One must wonder what type of insanity has consumed the New York Democrat voters.
On that matter one must wonder what type of insanity has consumed the woke, socialist Democrat Party supporters.
WOKISM is what’s consumed them.
And they wonder why people are running out of NY like it’s on fire.
PITY WE can’t wall it off, like that tv show, Under the Dome. ALSO, i wonder, HOW MANY of those “Fleeing”< are bringing their LIBTARD Ideologies and vote with them?!
Liberal demonrats are everything they can to turn new York city and the rest of the country into another africa.
Of all the countries in the world one could visit, Africa isn’t even on my list. My image of Africa is that it’s dirty and extremely backwards. Paul Harvey once said that he believed that there are backwards people in this world who choose to be backwards. Africa and the Middle-East are just such places.
While I’m sure Africa has breathtaking scenery, it has always had tribalism and now we’re seeing it right here in America. Instead of the great melting pot we used to be, now we’re a patchwork of dispirit tribal groups vying for power, control and turf. If we don’t arrest this trend, and soon, our great nation will crumble like the very walls of Jericho itself.
The left is either deaf, dumb and blind to the reality of their emotion-based policies, or this is what they truly want, as they’ll rarely ever be affected by the garbage they force down the throats of the rest of us.
Unless, or until their policies affect them personally, they’re not likely to ever see the light.
During both med cruises, i had the opportunity to take MWR Trips TO areas in africa.. I ALWAYS passed.
Does anyone realize that all the crime is committed by the residents not criminals who drive in from other cities. They do not want their kin to be incarcerated. They bring home goodies for the family to share.
The people of New York deserve every crime committed against them, they voted for their misery! But my heart cries for the children because they don’t deserve the misery their parents voted for them!
I wonder, IS THIS Worthy of CPS Taking the kids FROM these parental units?
Hey New York, I hope you’re ready for a serious crime wave.
So it is true – that one rotten apple (nyc) will spoils (actually kill) the bunch (USA). Maybe defund the city.
I’m waiting for billboards to appear in Florida; “Come back to NY, home of freedom. Well, to kill you child that is.”
Defund the police is no doubt the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Just this morning biden said Maga people want to defund the police. He’s setting up the lie to prepare for 2024 run as a law and order guy and there is so many dumb liberals who will fall for this lie.