{"id":18664,"date":"2020-07-01T05:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bill-de-blasio-caves-to-absurd-defund-the-police-movement-goodwin\/"},"modified":"2020-07-01T05:09:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T02:09:00","slug":"bill-de-blasio-caves-to-absurd-defund-the-police-movement-goodwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-de-blasio-caves-to-absurd-defund-the-police-movement-goodwin\/","title":{"rendered":"#Bill de Blasio caves to absurd \u2018defund the police\u2019 movement: Goodwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40474386c6e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40474386c6e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-de-blasio-caves-to-absurd-defund-the-police-movement-goodwin\/#Goodbye_riddance\" >Goodbye . . . &#038; riddance<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-de-blasio-caves-to-absurd-defund-the-police-movement-goodwin\/#%E2%80%98Terminating_Congress\" >\u2018Term\u2019inating Congress<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bill-de-blasio-caves-to-absurd-defund-the-police-movement-goodwin\/#Keep_this_in_%E2%80%98mind\" >Keep this in \u2018mind\u2019<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Bill de Blasio caves to absurd \u2018defund the police\u2019 movement: Goodwin<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        Reader Jay Roberts raises the burning question of the day, one that has sparked a lively debate with one of his friends.<\/p>\n<p>He writes, \u201cYou say Mayor de\u2009Blasio is a \u2018putz\u2019 but my friend says he\u2019s a \u2018schmuck.\u2019 I suggest we send the mayor a letter asking for his opinion. A putz wouldn\u2019t answer it, but a schmuck would.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To which I say: Stop! You\u2019re both right!<\/p>\n<p>For those who don\u2019t speak New York, think of a putz as a hapless fool, someone incapable of doing the right thing. A schmuck, on the other hand, is a jerk, someone who intentionally does the wrong thing.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately for New Yorkers, de Blasio takes turns at being both. He always screws up, the only difference being whether it\u2019s intentional or not. Either way, Gotham gets screwed.<\/p>\n<p>The latest evidence comes with his agreement to cut police spending by about 17 percent, including the cancellation of a new class of rookies. With retirements soaring, that guarantees fewer cops on the street just as murder and mayhem are turning much of the city into the Wild West.<\/p>\n<p>Murders are up 25 percent this year and the police counted 63 shootings last week, compared with 26 for the same week last year.<\/p>\n<p>The violent tide suggests the bad guys have no fear of being \u00adarrested. Why should they? And if they are, the new bail law requires judges to release most of them \u00adim<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the domino effect will add to the city\u2019s misery. The crime spurt, including the tragic murder of 17-year-old Brandon Hendricks, while the police force is facing reductions means the NYPD will have little or no resources for less serious but still important quality-of-life issues.<\/p>\n<p>The illegal fireworks exploding all over the city with impunity are but a loud foreshadowing of the disorder to come. Consider, too, that it took the city more than a month to move a homeless man, often naked, out of the dry fountain at Washington Square Park.<\/p>\n<p>For de Blasio, the police budget episode has been Exhibit A of how he is both hapless and unscrupulous.<\/p>\n<p>At first, he tried to dance around the far-left pressure to defund cops but after he was booed and heckled off the stage at a June 4 \u00admemorial for \u00adGeorge Floyd in Brooklyn, he instantly embraced the national madness.<\/p>\n<p>Within days, de Blasio was throwing the mob a bone, saying that while he didn\u2019t agree with calls for $1 billion in cuts to the NYPD\u2019s nearly $6 billion in spending, he would propose \u201csomething substantial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Given the backdrop of protests, riots and looting, even that was reckless pandering. These \u201cmostly peaceful protests,\u201d as much of the media still insist on calling them, destroyed hundreds of businesses and scared sensible people out of their wits \u2014 and sent many of them to the exits.<\/p>\n<p>A good, courageous mayor would have stood up to the anti-cop crowds and reminded them that the NYPD had saved thousands of black lives by taking illegal handguns off the street, and that a declining prison rate was another consequence. It was the police, not the protesters and rioters, who had made New York the safest big city in America.<\/p>\n<p>Such a mayor also would have reminded all New Yorkers that a continuing exodus of taxpayers will leave the city with even less money to spend on anything and everything.<\/p>\n<p>But expecting de Blasio to be a good, courageous mayor is a fool\u2019s errand. He caved in to the demands and instead of nibbling at police spending, agreed to slash it.<\/p>\n<p>Anti-police radicals want\u00aded $1 billion, and that\u2019s what he gave them, plus $500 million more from the separate capital budget, according to reports of Tuesday\u2019s agreement with the City Council. The mayor even used his favorite word \u2014 redistribution \u2014 to describe how he would shift money from police to social services and other \u00adspending.<\/p>\n<p>The council slashers were led by Corey Johnson, the speaker, who thinks he\u2019s going to be the next mayor, just as every City Council speaker before him did. None has ever made it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15917651\"><img alt=\"Council Speaker Corey Johnson\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Council Speaker Corey Johnson<\/span><span>Getty Images   <\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Johnson took office nearly three years ago by acting as something of a check on de Blasio, but as the national mood lurched far left, so has Johnson. Nowadays, whatever de Blasio wants to spend, Johnson says it\u2019s not enough. So it was with cutting police \u2014 he was one of those demanding $1 billion from the cops\u2019 hides.<\/p>\n<p>For other ambitious pols, that money is peanuts. Comptroller Scott Stringer also wants to be mayor, and sensing an opportunity to get to the left of Johnson, he promptly denounced the deal as \u201cbait and switch and a paper-thin excuse for reform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sang the same song, saying the deal was just a case of \u201cfunny math\u201d and \u201cis not a victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is crazy talk \u2014 and the stuff of disaster.<\/p>\n<p>For one thing, the deal and the criticism reveal that the 2021 race to succeed the term-limited de Blasio will turn the brave men and women of the NYPD into a pi\u00f1ata. Beating up on cops will be the fastest way to grab a headline and energize the mob.<\/p>\n<p>For another, the deal confirms that we are witnessing a dangerous moment in America. Just as New York led the nation in tackling crime 25 years ago, the folly of the nation\u2019s biggest city cutting police spending during a crime wave will increase demands on any holdout cities to do at least as much.<\/p>\n<p>While most will not follow the extreme Minneapolis model and try to shutter the police department and replace it, it is almost certain that the anti-blue wave sweeping much of America will simultaneously handcuff cops and thin their ranks.<\/p>\n<p>That leads to the second guarantee, which is that these actions will usher in a new era of high crime and violence. And Bill de Blasio is helping to make it h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en.<\/p>\n<p>Heckuva job, Mayor Putz-Schmuck.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Goodbye_riddance\"><\/span>Goodbye . . . &#038; riddance<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Heart be still.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Adam Schiff, yes, that Adam Schiff, says he might want to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe may all be moving to Canada soon,\u201d Schiff reportedly said during a Washington forum on disinformation and election interference.<\/p>\n<p>He wouldn\u2019t lack for help in packing.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98Terminating_Congress\"><\/span>\u2018Term\u2019inating Congress<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>There are lots of ideas on how President Trump can climb out of political quicksand, including this one from reader Jeff Moore. \u201cWhat about making term limits for Congress the central \u2018big idea\u2019 for a second term?,\u201d he writes. \u201cI lament that virtually my whole adult life has been influenced \u2014 often significantly \u2014 by the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell. Careerism in politics is perhaps the single greatest contributor to the downward spiral of American society.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Keep_this_in_%E2%80%98mind\"><\/span>Keep this in \u2018mind\u2019<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>In his first press conference in three months, Joe Biden gave a strange response to claims he\u2019s lost a step or two mentally. The 77-year old said he\u2019s \u201cconstantly testing\u201d for cognitive decline.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm. If he\u2019s fine, why undergo constant testing?\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/30\/de-blasio-caves-to-absurd-defund-the-police-movement-goodwin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Opinion <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Bill de Blasio caves to absurd \u2018defund the police\u2019 movement: Goodwin&#8221; Reader Jay Roberts raises the burning question of the day, one that has sparked a lively debate with one of his friends. He writes, \u201cYou say Mayor de\u2009Blasio is a \u2018putz\u2019 but my friend says he\u2019s a \u2018schmuck.\u2019 I suggest we send the mayor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30235],"class_list":["post-18664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bill-de-blasio-caves-to-absurd-defund-the-police-movement-goodwin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}