Compared to other cities, NYC has had a much lower % of murders committed by guns for 20+ years now. Of course "it's complicated," but long story short: NYC has strict gun control laws and 20+ years ago the NYPD started caring about gun violence in a way other cities do not. amzn.to/4oASuLb

The NYPD has an insane focus on gun related crime. Every gun crime is tracked at an executive level. There are daily inter-agency meetings that discuss _every_ gun arrest. Daily. 1,000 and counting. They treat gunshots like crimes. They have an entire detective unit dedicated to gang violence.

There's a sub issue in that nobody else gets charged with perjury ever. But yeah, if a cop is proven to have done so, their career is over. And the prosecutor can charge as he or she sees fit. It's a felony.

I can't speak for all. In Baltimore the prosecutor made a list of cops they thought were lying. There was no hard evidence. No proof. It was a gut feeling (based in part on reality). It was surely right in the some of the cases and wrong in others. What is the PD supposed to do?

It does get cops fired.
The issue is when prosecutors makes a list with no proof that cop lied.
And the PD is like, "dude we got nothing here."

I like that our Baltimore Peanut Gallery on Twitter gets a shout out! We -- Me Kim, Mark, the Black Pirate, and Tony -- were a force for good, calling out the bad leadership of Baltimore at the time. Tony had to delete account before he went back to public service!

Tony was right about Harrison, FWIW.

Back in 2020 when murders of black men skyrocketed and nobody seemed to care about _those_ black lives, Tony wrote this for me.

We Cannot Afford to Wait – Quality Policing
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Maybe we leftists could win elections for a change and get health care for all and other nice things if we stopped praising cop killers?

A commute I had until we stopped policing the subway and ejecting loiterers circa 2017

Only time somebody tried to kill me was not as a cop in Baltimore but last year on the 6th Ave and 59th St subway platform. I'm tired of being told I'm safe. I just want an uneventful commute.

It depends on how one defines the problem. If the problem is his well being, it's mental health problem. If the problem is my well being, it's a criminal justice problem. Keep him away from me. I don't care how or which approach we take. But the CJ approach will keep me safe.

You took the subway with me!

Why does every conversation here end up with insults? Did I say something rude?

I'm impressed you didn't do a spit take in the WHYY interview when the host expressed such wonderment at the idea, which he and said he had never heard of, of a technology that could... detect and locate gunshots!

It's not a "magic" formula. That's my point. It's repeat offenders who get arrested constantly and a system in New York that explicitly forbids somebody who is "dangerous" from being detained post arrest because they are dangerous. This is low-hanging fruit.

Indeed. Humans are unpredictable. We can't prevent all crime. We CAN prevent the thousands of crime committed by these 63 people and others who get arrested monthly and never get the help or detention they need. We could have saved a man's life.
Or we can shrug and say, "it's complicated."