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Governor Hochul calls out the National Guard to police the NYC subways — 15 Comments

  1. A clearer example of anarcho-tyranny could hardly be had. Allow crime to run rampant and then sic the police on the law-abiding. The governor’s innovation here is to use the national guard for the tyranny instead of the actual police.

  2. mkent:

    Well put.

    And if people don’t like it, says Adams, just don’t take the subway. That is a huge hardship for New Yorkers; the subway is often by far the best way to get around.

  3. Sick City is NYC—I’d choose prison again over living there. Try to defend yourself and/or others – end up like former U.S. Marine sergeant Daniel Penny. Law in NYC doesn’t even know the difference between a neckhold and a chokehold. Penny is basically accused of killing Jordan Neely with a chokehold, but a person in a chokehold will pass out in less than 10-seconds. Penny had Neely in a neckhold – which is why Neely was able to struggle for so long.

    Biden has allowed thousands of military aged Islamic males into the US, and odds grow higher everyday that one of them ends up with a bomb in one of those subways during rush hour…

  4. And how will the banning of transit assault perpetrators from public transportation be accomplished?

    May we hope for a figurative international ban symbol over an abbreviated “Trans” or “T” (standing for “transportation”, [wink wink]) branded with a hot iron right smack dab in the middle of the offenders’ foreheads? Or izzat too medieval for NY, NY?

  5. And if Trump at any time either during his time as President or now, he would be branded as dangerous, anti democratic, and racist.

  6. The stop and frisk policy was, I think, a good tool to reduce potential crime. BUT what the police ended up enforcing were more of the really stupid laws in NY. Workers with tools stopped because they had a cutting tool. I watched a video where a cop spent 10 minutes trying to get a pocket knife to flip open.

    The broken windows policy and anti loitering policies did a lot to reduce crime. It made neighborhoods safer and better places to live. It grates a bit because FREEDOM, but the results were there. I’ve lived in places where friendly drinking turned violent the more time passed.

    Oh, and those National Guard soldiers? I’ll bet good money that the weapons they will carry will not be loaded.

  7. What are the rules of engagement for when the National Guard encounter violent criminals?

  8. Kate-They most likely will be told to call the Transit Police.
    The Dems seem to really like Security Theatre.

  9. Hochul takes the view that the problem isn’t crime, but NYers’ “feeling” that crime is a problem. So she proposes window dressing so that people might feel better. Never mind the fact that crime is up significantly relative to five years ago. It’s all about feelings.

  10. Jimmy:

    I don’t see why bag checks for weapons would be reassuring. It would do away with any deterrence value of the possibility of a good guy with a weapon.

  11. Comments pointing out the lack of effectiveness of the methods the governor is implementing miss the point. It’s secondarily about the optics of appearing to ‘do something’ but mainly about introducing the public to their new military overseers. Sieg heil!

  12. (and by the way, the right-leaning NY Post’s article was number 31 in the Google list when I checked, instead of much higher up where it should be as one of New York City’s largest periodicals)

    Gemini’s image generation isn’t the only place Google curates their prompts.

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