{"id":286031,"date":"2021-06-28T22:26:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/times-square-shooting-is-what-happens-when-you-dont-police-the-little-stuff\/"},"modified":"2021-06-28T22:26:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T19:26:43","slug":"times-square-shooting-is-what-happens-when-you-dont-police-the-little-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/times-square-shooting-is-what-happens-when-you-dont-police-the-little-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"#Times Square shooting is what happens when you don’t police the little stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Times Square shooting is what happ<\/a>ens when you don’t police the little stuff<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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U.S. Marine Samuel Poulin wasn\u2019t on active deployment when he was shot Sunday afternoon outside of a Times Square Starbucks, but you\u2019d be forgiven for mistaking the Crossroads of the World for a war zone. The broad daylight gunplay was the second such incident in two months, and now counts a total of four casualties, including a child. <\/p>\n

The earlier violence \u2014 and perhaps this incident as well \u2014 was driven by aggressive street hustlers \u201cselling\u201d their CDs. Anyone who has walked through the area for five minutes has been approached by a wannabe rap star asking if you \u201clike rap music.\u201d Natives know not to give these guys so much as an eyeball, but tourists \u2014 who are starting to trickle back to the city \u2014 may, out of interest or just to be polite, stop and engage with the phony pitch.<\/p>\n

Then the strongarm appeal begins, with CDs thrust into hands followed by demands for money. Sometimes bills are timidly proffered; sometimes they are snatched out of wallets. In few cases is the exchange anything the Better Business Bureau would stamp as kosher. If you\u2019re lucky, the disc will be blank; sometimes it\u2019s malware, in which case you have fallen into a scammer\u2019s parlay.<\/p>\n

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Samuel Poulin (right) was hit in the upper back by a ricocheting bullet in the shooting in Times Square.<\/figcaption>
Instagram<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Surveillance
Surveillance video shows this suspect firing his gun in Times Square.<\/figcaption>
No Credit<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This has been going on for years, unfortunately. The NYPD used to ticket these clowns for \u201caggressive solicitation,\u201d or arrest them if the hustlers turned the episode into an outright mugging. In 2009 one of these thugs pulled a gun on the cops and got killed for his efforts. <\/p>\n

This game<\/a> \u2014 which takes place all over downtown, not just in Times Square \u2014 needs to stop, now. Though the First Amendment protects the sale of \u201cexpressive matter,\u201d the city is allowed to impose reasonable restrictions on vending, which is not allowed to impede pedestrian flow and which requires the possession of a sales tax ID.<\/p>\n

But the bigger issue remains the widespread illegal toting of handguns, which the city appears powerless to cure. Mayor de Blasio brags about how many gun arrests the NYPD has made, yet it\u2019s clearly not keeping up with the increase in shootings and killings.<\/p>\n

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Mayor Bill de Blasio brags about how many gun arrests the NYPD has made, but the number of shootings are still high.<\/figcaption>
Matthew McDermott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Though Michael Bloomberg has cravenly walked back his Stop, Question, and Frisk policy, it was wildly successful at keeping guns off the street because perps knew better than to carry them in the first place. Thanks to de Blasio, who threw in the towel on the city\u2019s appeal of a dubious court ruling regarding SQF, the NYPD is now under federal monitorship, effectively hobbling its anti-gun efforts.<\/p>\n

And thanks to the 2017 \u201cRight to Know Act,\u201d the NYPD has to proactively inform people that they have a right to refuse being searched in many circumstances. For these and other reasons \u2014 including the diversion of gun charges to non-carceral \u201ctrauma-informed justice solutions\u201d \u2014 chaos in New York has been codified. <\/p>\n

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It\u2019s possible that the shooting on June 27th was caused by a dispute between CD peddlers.<\/figcaption>
Peter Gerber<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next mayor will have a devil of a time trying to get the streets safe again, because all the time-tested tools to do so have been made illegal.<\/p>\n

Seth Barron is managing editor of The American Mind and author of the new book, \u201cThe Last Days of New York<\/a>.\u201d<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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