Current Events > "Defund the police" politician moves from Harlem due to safety issues

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https://nypost.com/2022/06/21/yuh-line-niou-house-wannabe-who-preaches-cop-defund-fled-from-harlem/?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=android_nyp

A left-wing state lawmaker who has pushed for cutting police funding first moved to the district she is seeking to represent in Congress because safety issues near the projects in Harlem prompted her to shack up with her tech bro then-fianc in the Financial District, The Post has learned.

Assemblywoman Yuh-Line Niou (D-Lower Manhattan) told a local publication in 2016 when she was campaigning to initially get elected to her current seat that she headed to the wealthier Manhattan neighborhood because she witnessed a pair of disturbing crimes and fell victim to one.

The police didn't do anything to prevent those crimes in 2016, so why should we fund them now?

The Post is literally using exampmes of police failure to try and argue that the police aren't failures. Insane.

Were the police defunded in 2016? This is a gotcha only if you believe that police provide public safety. But the most policed areas of any city are often the least safe.

yeah and those areas would be less dangerous if they gave less money to the police and more to the people

Meanwhile, 100 years ago:

"Take lead out of gasoline" candidate moves (4 more years ago) to area with cleaner air

So, in other words, because her district didn't listen to her, and try to get some police reform bills put into law, crime has gotten so bad she had to move?

Is this supposed to be some gotcha moment?

Intro2Logic posted...

Were the police defunded in 2016? This is a gotcha only if you believe that police provide public safety. But the most policed areas of any city are often the least safe.

So to be clear, you don't think the police should focus more resources on areas that have higher crime rates?

Because it's kind of a no-brainer that there's a higher police presence in dangerous neighborhoods and why that is.

Solid Snake07 posted...

So to be clear, you don't think the police should focus more resources on areas that have higher crime rates?

Because it's kind of a no-brainer that there's a higher police presence in dangerous neighborhoods and why that is.

Why are the neighborhoods dangerous to begin with?

Solid Snake07 posted...

So to be clear, you don't think the police should focus more resources on areas that have higher crime rates?

I don't think the police should exist, but that's another matter.

What I'm saying is that, if they were the solution to the problem of crime, surely it would be most solved in the places they are most present. But in fact it is the opposite.

She almost certainly moved to a neighborhood with a smaller police presence, which hardly seems at odds with her calls to defund the police.

Dathrowed1 posted...

in 2016

Erm...

So are we just ignoring this or what?

I mean if the area is so dangerous that people are fleeing due to safety, isn't that demonstrating that the police aren't doing a good job?

Intro2Logic posted...

But the most policed areas of any city are often the least safe.

Well duh. They're most policed for a reason >_>

Okay but you guys have to understand that in the brain of the average New York Post reader this is an absolutely devastating own.

NeonOctopus posted...

Well duh. They're most policed for a reason >_>

Then why are they still the least safe if they're the most policed? Because cops don't do shit.

Unknown5uspect posted...

Then why are they still the least safe if they're the most policed? Because cops don't do shit.

Because population and poverty is increasing, and cop population is decreasing. Its never going to get better, regardless of what cops do. Theyre just a bandage to handle the calls through out the day

NeonOctopus posted...

Well duh. They're most policed for a reason >_>

Yes and the richer areas have less police. Because they have resources. LAPD has a billion dollar budget and doesn't do shit.

I'm confused, by how much were the police defunded?

Darkprince21 posted...

Its never going to get better, regardless of what cops do

Then maybe we should put money towards reducing poverty instead of cops

Dathrowed1 posted...

that she headed to the wealthier Manhattan neighborhood because she witnessed a pair of disturbing crimes and fell victim to one.

So she had to move because the police couldn't protect her. Right to defund them.

Darkprince21 posted...

Its never going to get better, regardless of what cops do.

Offf

This is an own goal as an attempt to oppose the defund the police movement

Antifar posted...

Then maybe we should put money towards reducing poverty instead of cops

Or both

Unknown5uspect posted...

Why are the neighborhoods dangerous to begin with?

poverty, damaging public policy like the war on drugs. Its definitely not just because and only because the police are there

Intro2Logic posted...

I don't think the police should exist, but that's another matter.

What I'm saying is that, if they were the solution to the problem of crime, surely it would be most solved in the places they are most present. But in fact it is the opposite.

She almost certainly moved to a neighborhood with a smaller police presence, which hardly seems at odds with her calls to defund the police.

aka, she moved to a safer area. Sure must be nice to have the option to just move after fucking up where you live.

I bet TC really thought they were making a point with this topic.

The state should start prosecuting urban youths caught with guns in criminal court

Anyone have a link to the study that shows the vast majority of people who supported defund the police are wealthy people in well to do areas that never have to deal with cops?

Background_Guy posted...

The police didn't do anything to prevent those crimes in 2016, so why should we fund them now?

are people really this stupid, or do you seriously expect police to be precognitive now?

LongJohnSilvers posted...

Anyone have a link to the study that shows the vast majority of people who supported defund the police are wealthy people in well to do areas that never have to deal with cops?

Wish I did. There is a poll that shows "defund the police" and police abolish are fringe positions in the black community

Is there supposed to be some kind of contradiction here?

Kimbos_Egg posted...

are people really this stupid, or do you seriously expect police to be precognitive now?

The article is saying that it's bad that someone who left a high crime area wants to defund the police

Your response to that is to say people are stupid for expecting police to do anything.

And you're calling others stupid rather than the article and it's target audience

Now if she left an area that had no police due to her policies that led to a crimewave, you'd have a point.

AS it stands all the right wing guys coming in and screaming "Lol you don't think the police are useless!?" are accidentally arguing in her favor.

UnfairRepresent posted...

Your response to that is to say people are stupid for expecting police to do anything.

Again, what can they possibly do short of pre-emptively knowing a crime is taking place? Do you understand what a police officer is? Because it really doesn't sound like you do..

Kimbos_Egg posted...

Again, what can they possibly do short of pre-emptively knowing a crime is taking place? Do you understand what a police officer is? Because it really doesn't sound like you do..

You're missing the forest for the trees

The point is how can you use someone who moved away from a high crime area (years ago) wanting to defund the police as an attack against them?

The police clearly aren't doing anything to deter crime in that area and you passionately agree with that. So... What's the beef with this girl again?

Yet you're not attacking the article or it's audience... You're attacking the people who agree with you and calling them stupid....

I think this the human equivliant to when a Pokemon is confused and hits itself in confusion.

This topic did not go well for TC

Kimbos_Egg posted...

Again, what can they possibly do short of pre-emptively knowing a crime is taking place? Do you understand what a police officer is? Because it really doesn't sound like you do..

They can't possibly do anything. Which is the point.

Antifar posted...

They can't possibly do anything. Which is the point.

He's so close

I'm glad to see so many people finally recognizing that police don't actually make people safer

Intro2Logic posted...

This is a gotcha only if you believe that police provide public safety. But the most policed areas of any city are often the least safe.

They should pull all of the police out of those areas, then itll be very safe.

Maybe even the safest of all.

UnholyMudcrab posted...

This topic did not go well for TC

I got responses, it went really well

Lorenzo_2003 posted...

They should pull all of the police out of those areas, then itll be very safe.

Maybe even the safest of all

I think many may believe this unironically

As if the cops are out here saving people man id move too.

Lmfao he actually cited the shitpost

Lorenzo_2003 posted...

They should pull all of the police out of those areas, then itll be very safe.

Maybe even the safest of all.

I wish they would, so people can cry about needing police