When the crime wave hits your family

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https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/when-the-crime-wave-hits-your-family?s=09">When the crime wave hits your family

My wife and I are scrambling to find daycare for our 16-month-old son. We've had a "nanny share" up until now, which means we and another couple employ a nanny for both couples' kids and split the cost. Our nanny is wonderful, and she lives just a few blocks from us. But a few weeks ago, someone walked up her street spraying bullets into random houses. One of the bullets found its way into her living room, as she and her family ducked for cover. At that moment, she and her husband decided they were moving their family out of Oakland.

The shooting didn't even make the local news. Apparently, in the Bay Area right now, you can walk up a residential street firing your gun into houses, and you still won't be able to compete for attention with all of the other sensational crimes.

[RobertELee]

***Livin' in a democrats paradise***

[Jim at Gentex]

***Livin' in a democrats paradise***

Yup.
Not enforcing the law lets the criminal element run wild with no fear of reprisal.

These are the same liberal do-gooder geniuses who are calling for disarming the public, defunding police, and closing prisons.  

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In other news, gun sales are way up

[CNCAppsJames]

In other news, gun sales are way up

Heck yeah they are.

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[quote="Jim at Gentex" post_id=19658 time=1639409207 user_id=83]

***Livin' in a democrats paradise***

Yup.
Not enforcing the law lets the criminal element run wild with no fear of reprisal.

These are the same liberal do-gooder geniuses who are calling for disarming the public, defunding police, and closing prisons.  
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while spending hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on private security for themselves

[CNCAppsJames]

In her brilliant book "Ghettoside," journalist Jill Leovy shows what happens when the police clearance rate—the rate at which the police close cases—is abysmally low: People can literally get away with murder. Under those conditions, the friends and relatives of murder victims assume, quite rationally, that the criminal justice system will not provide them with justice. They can live with their loved ones' murderers enjoying impunity for their crimes, or take justice into their own hands—triggering a new cycle of violence.

Defund advocates dismiss these arguments—not because they can refute them with evidence, but because they're blinded by ideology. Their hyper-focus on police misconduct seems to have made it impossible for them to see, let alone acknowledge, the benefits of an effective police force. Even in the absence of a viable alternative, they demand that existing law enforcement structures be torn down. They claim that, by taking money from police and putting it toward social programs, they can eliminate the need for heavy-handed policing in the first place. But the social programs are an afterthought. What matters most to these activists is tearing down the cops, not building up the tattered neighborhoods those cops are charged with protecting.

Spot on.

[CNCAppsJames]

NOBODY saw this coming

Progressives today are passionate about dismantling the status quo, but have offered little in terms of a viable alternative. It's a posture Shellenberger calls "left libertarianism," and it assumes that those kinder, better, more forward-looking criminal justice systems will spontaneously emerge.

 

The past year has given us plenty of evidence to reveal that idea as the wishful thinking it is. Remember progressives' utopian experiment with CHAZ/CHOP, the Seattle neighborhood taken over by activists in June 2020? Once the area had been "liberated" from police, it saw a five-fold increase in crime from the same period in 2019, including rape, murder, robbery, and assault.

Again... NOBODY saw that coming.

[CNCAppsJames]

https://bariweiss.substack.com/p/when-the-crime-wave-hits-your-family?s=09">When the crime wave hits your family

My wife and I are scrambling to find daycare for our 16-month-old son. We've had a "nanny share" up until now, which means we and another couple employ a nanny for both couples' kids and split the cost. Our nanny is wonderful, and she lives just a few blocks from us. But a few weeks ago, someone walked up her street spraying bullets into random houses. One of the bullets found its way into her living room, as she and her family ducked for cover. At that moment, she and her husband decided they were moving their family out of Oakland.

The shooting didn't even make the local news. Apparently, in the Bay Area right now, you can walk up a residential street firing your gun into houses, and you still won't be able to compete for attention with all of the other sensational crimes.

I gave it a like because it highlights a serious problem/issue that NEEDS some sunlight to be cast upon it.

The article highlights the great white saviors in the high rent district in Oakland thrust this Defund nonsense upon the low rent district residents. Now since crime is beginning to permeate the high rent district there may be a defund reversal, but it's too late. The DA's ain't charging because they've got private security... on OUR dime.