Art (satire) imitates life: NY Times reporter Ralph Blumenthal writes annually a piece decrying the number of prisoners when crime rates plummet.
Ralph is part of the 5% who never, ever gets it.
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Posted on 11/24/2007 4:28:07 PM PST by Sub-Driver
NYC Murders Drop, Democrats Call for Cop Pull Out by Scott Ott for ScrappleFace
(2007-11-24) — As the number of murders in New York City reached a 40-year low, Democrats in Congress introduced a measure calling for an immediate and total pull-out of law enforcement personnel citing the high cost of fighting crime, the risk to those in uniform and “lack of political progress” in the city.
In a typical Congressional maneuver, Democrats attached the redeployment measure as an amendment to an unrelated bill, sponsored by Republicans, which would provide senior citizens with a taxpayer-funded MediCare prescription golf benefit.
Official statistics show the Big Apple’s murder rate is now less than a quarter of what it was in 1990, but Democrats in Congress say the reduction has nothing to do with the actions of the New York City Police Department or the policies of the last two Republican mayors.
“The dip in the murder rate is certainly temporary,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, “and it presents us with a window of opportunity to safely extract our brave men and women in uniform before the slaughter returns to normal levels.”
Ha!,somebody owes me a keyboard;)
this one’s a home run.
What a joke!
I was only half surprised when I saw it was from Scrappleface. I can actually see the dems try to do something like this, for real!
It’s a quagmire.
LOL! Hooray Scott Ott!
Public courses or the country club?
Some times they absolutely nail it....
Wow! Scrappleface takes a jab against big-government pubbies as well. Not bad. Not bad at all.
Well, yeah, the murder rate has gone down... there’s no one left to kill!!!
Hillary: I was for the cops before I was against the cops. I mean, we should stay the course but pull out.
bhwhaahaa well the cops have been brutalizin the thugs of nyc for long enuff its a day of reckoning for those taser crazed brutes....i mean its a sad day in america when a self respecting mugger cant ply his trade in peace in central park...first they had to abide mayor j. then a wholesale roughing up for years at the hands of the men in blue.
bwhahahahaha im in favor of this wholesale retrenchment see...this is what we should really be doing right now in the middle east....i mean after all aint we been victorious enuff....how much victory do we really need and what about the self esteem of them brave al quaeders?
bhahahahahah\ how mean can u get ,,.,,,why we aint even ever tried to sit down and drink green tea with em...not even a kumbaya afer all these years,.,,,
i reserve the balance of my time,....lordy help us/
In addition, Democrats are saying you can do well policing the streets, but political reconciliation is what is needed now. “You need to fix the politics.”
(psst, which party is representing NY)
“uh. wait. uh. nevermind.”
If the dems think it would work for Iraq, why not Detroit? Stop going after the thugs and criminals terrorizing the citizens and negotiate with gang leaders to find a diplomatic solution. Maybe economic sanctions would work.
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