Sometimes you read this stuff, and all you can keep thinking is that they’re peeing on your head again and telling you it’s raining.
Here are the first four paragraphs of today’s “exclusive” in the New York Daily News. See if what is said in those paragraphs squares with any reality you are aware of:
An internal NYPD study found no link between the sharp drop in street stops and a rise in shootings, the Daily News has learned.
Shootings rose 6% in 2014 compared with the year before as the number of stop-and-frisk encounters dropped to a record-low 46,235 – a staggering decrease from the high of 605,328 in 2011.
Shootings are up again – about 20% in 2015 through Sunday – but the NYPD said the study doesn’t prove a link between the increase in shootings and fewer stops.
“We weren’t able to find anything definitive,”said Deputy Commissioner Stephen Davis, the NYPD’s top spokesman.
“Everything we found would suggest there wasn’t a correlation.”
There you go. Stop and frisk encounters are next to non-existent, compared to previous years. And shootings are way up – even as other crime statistics drop. But “there wasn’t a correlation”.
Feel the, er, rain showers?
If you believe this, I have a controlling interest in Apple to sell you. Cheap.
But, then again, what’s there to complain about? bill de blasio was elected Mayor of New York City in a major landslide. And, to his credit, he never campaigned on anything but what he is doing.
In this world, you get what you pay for. And New Yorkers are paying. Dearly. I hope they remember as much the next time election day rolls around.
