It would be interesting to see what happens in a city that size when the citizens don't have guns, the police are defanged or disinterested, and the thugs are armed to the teeth. Sounds like nirvana to me.
NYC under General Dinkins was a filthy crime riddled nightmare.
There were neighborhoods that were “no go zones” for normal people.
In the early 1990’s I had a company vehicle when it broke down on the Cross-Bronx expressway. We were told by corporate to exit the vehicle, take our personal valuables and get a taxi out of there as quickly as possible. We started walking out to the nearest exit which was Clay Road. It was risky to be on foot anywhere in that area at that time, and taxi service was...questionable. Within minutes of leaving the vehicle the theives started stripping it. In an hour most of it was gone. We drove by it the next day, it was flipped over on it’s roof and there was literally nothing left but the unibody substructure. That you could strip a vehicle in full public view was normal in those times. Never forgot that. One of a thousand experiences in NYC that I would like to forget bit can’t
Rudy cleaned up NYC and made it a nice place to be. DeBolshevik will take it back to the days of Dinkins.
But, but...if the cops are defanged, what will poor Peter Gelb, of the Metropolitan Opera, do the next time he puts on an anti-Semitic opera?
At the opening night of “Death of Klinghoffer,” the neighborhood, and the opera house, were crawling with cops, to protect the Met patrons from those marauding, barbarous Jews who disapproved of Mr. Gelb’s operatic taste.
Who will protect the Met audience when Mr. Gelb decides to stage “Springtime for Hitler” or celebrate the next production of Meistersinger with a rendition of the Horst Wessel song? Oh dear, oh dear.
Welcome to Seattle. They are trying very hard to do the exact same thing. Thankfully the courts slapped them down on one of their attempts to disarm citizens.
Sounds like Gotham to me.
Merry Christmas!
FMCDH(BITS)