Peter Moskos

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

Washington DC is on pace for roughly 42 murders this year -- the lowest since at least 1930. Two years ago it had 274. Carjackings are also down (by 44%). What changed: 1) New U.S. Attorney replaced a soft-on-crime predecessor and immediately started actually prosecuting, including seeking the death penalty for the worst offenders. 2) There's more visible law enforcement presence now. Federal law enforcement and the National Guard deployed to cover a 50-year low in local police staffing -- a hole created by city council budget cuts that some estimate will take a decade to fully close. 3) Ended policy of refusing to charge juveniles as an adult, signaling to the youth that there will be consequences for their crimes. The prior admin prosecuted exactly one juvenile for armed carjacking over a decade, so gangs recruited juveniles to steal cars. Arrest-to-offense ratio for carjacking went from 25% to 58% last year.

yeah let's all be reasonable here. Adding some city run grocery stores is likely to prove stupid and wasteful but it's also not a huge deal or very much money in the context that our governments run on a furnace of wasted cash anyway

This is what it looks like. Don’t turn away. This is an act of evil. Our criminal justice policy can prioritize the interests of the people at risk of committing such acts or those of the people at risk of being the victims of such acts.

I should know. Six years ago, I was on the grand jury that indicted a previous wave of members of these two “gangs”: the Wooo and Choo. It was a deeply radicalizing experience. I realized then that the gov’s carceral approach to gun violence was never going to work. And clearly I was right! Surveilling and harassing the young men who live in these communities, and then sending a bunch of them to prison on trumped-up charges, didn’t actually solve the structural problems that produce gun violence. The shootings didn’t stop. A new generation just picked up where the old one left off. So a few years later, the cops and DAs just did the same thing again: sending a new crop of people to prison (including many people who never actually pulled a trigger but were just friends with those who did) in a futile attempt to solve structural problems. Great work.

There is no evidence whatsoever that commercial e-bikes have replaced a single car/truck trip in nyc. They created an entire new industry of mass scale slop delivery. All induced demand. NYCHA constantly finds the batteries in the trash chutes.

Police say a 28-year-old California man allegedly bought expensive LEGO sets, kept the pieces and returned the boxes filled with dry pasta. Authorities say the scheme was repeated about 70 times nationwide before he was caught.

Boston ouch ! Are you ok ?....from your friends in NYC

NYPD says video shows Nassadir Tate, 21, fatally punching a man, 55, at a subway station on 3/14. The victim had accidentally bumped into him. Tate was given a misdemeanor desk appearance ticket. One month later, no name of victim, no video, and Tate is still walking free.