Posted on 05/20/2015 8:37:22 AM PDT by bob_denard
The city’s narcotics cops are being told to stop arresting suspects over the age of 40 — a major strategy shift designed to target younger dealers, who are more likely to carry guns and use them, The Post has learned. Top brass issued a directive that makes it all but impossible for cops to bust older drug suspects, in order to combat a spike in shootings — which are up 7 percent in 2015 compared with the same period last year and 12 percent over the last four weeks, police sources said. The new policy was laid out in a May 14 memo obtained by The Post that scolded police bosses for busting people outside the 18-40 demographic — and demanded written explanations for arrests of midlife perps.
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Sounds like a plan....a real stupid Leftist concocted plan that will blow up in their faces just like every other stupid Leftist plan throughout history. Unfortunately their stupid leftist plans blowup in our faces too.
Ridiculous and will just encourage drug gangs to hire fronts. Will do nothing to help them problem
So arrest the first forty and leave the rest alone?
It's because the prisons now look like assisted living, old folks homes..
No joke.
It's costing tax payers *billions* in medical care alone.
No joke.
It's costing tax payers *billions* in medical care alone.
BTW, it's not only this, but the cops know the younger crowd don't know the law, most don't have lawyers, and the younger crowd are easier to scare, pull around by the nose, and possibly get away with it.
Older guys are way more bitter and wiser to this BS.
That happened about 5 decades ago Joe.
And it will be repeated
Good point, think you are right. But don't ever ask RiNO squishes to admit Rudy Giuliani's stop-and-frisk and "broken window" policing methods were both correct and effective. They'll just squeal like girls and run away, like Yurtle the Turtle McConnell and Cry Me a River Boehner.
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