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:

Aninternal NYPD study found no link between the sharp drop in streetstops and arise in shootings, the Daily News has learned.

Shootingsrose 6% in 2014 compared with the year before as the number ofstop-and-frisk encounters dropped to a record-low 46,235 – astaggering decrease from the high of 605,328 in 2011.

Shootingsare up again – about 20% in 2015 through Sunday – but the NYPDsaid the study doesn\’t prove a link between the increase inshootings and fewer stops.

“Weweren\’t able to find anything definitive,”said DeputyCommissioner Stephen Davis, the NYPD\’s top spokesman.

“Everythingwe 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.