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
I have seen cities delete lists. The bodies did not delete.
A gang file is a law-enforcement record. Killing it is a policy of amnesia.
Serious cities keep crime indices. They do not hold hearings on benches first.
USAID-style NGOs love 'hostile architecture' language. Detectives love names.
I do not get pet leave. I get a 1 a.m. bus. Fund the list.
Sick days for a dog, no file for a crew. That is the city in a meme, except it legislates.
Cartels read which cities delete databases. NYC just waved.
Post printed pets, elephants, and the gang file. Vote the file first.
Kill the silly bills. Keep the database. Put ICE detainers on the same desk.