u/border_dad
· 5h
Keep the database. The elephant can wait. The corner cannot.
Exclusive | The wacky — and dangerous — NYC bills that could soon be law: Sick leave for pets, abolished gang database and an elephant ban
City Hall is moving sick leave for pets, an elephant ban, and a kill switch on the gang database. The database is the one that bleeds.
Summary
- The New York Post reports a stack of pending city bills that includes paid sick leave for pets, an elephant ban, rules on 'hostile' architecture, and a move against the gang database.
- Abolishing or gutting a gang database is a policing decision dressed as compassion. Detectives lose the list. Crews keep the corners.
- Pet leave and circus bans are the sugar. The database is the medicine they want to pour out.
- A city that cannot name a crew will still name a bench as hostile. That is the priority list in one sentence.
Commentary
A bus driver in the Bronx still passes the same stairwell and knows which kids are in which set. He does not need a pet day. He needs the names in a system that still exists tomorrow.
That is the gap. Activists get a hearing about elephants and eggs. A mother gets a corner that forgot the last shooting. Hostile architecture is a bench. A hostile crew is a funeral.
Ask the council: if the gang file is the problem, who brings the next victim's photo?
Comments
Why is the gang database on the same docket as pet sick leave?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I have seen cities delete lists. The bodies did not delete.
u/rule_first
· 4h
A gang file is a law-enforcement record. Killing it is a policy of amnesia.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Serious cities keep crime indices. They do not hold hearings on benches first.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
USAID-style NGOs love 'hostile architecture' language. Detectives love names.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I do not get pet leave. I get a 1 a.m. bus. Fund the list.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
Sick days for a dog, no file for a crew. That is the city in a meme, except it legislates.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Cartels read which cities delete databases. NYC just waved.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Post printed pets, elephants, and the gang file. Vote the file first.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Kill the silly bills. Keep the database. Put ICE detainers on the same desk.
Paraphrased comments. Not attributed.
