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... There is no reason to risk your life serving when the mayor hates you and believes your department shouldn't even exist." ...
What NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's public safety agenda could mean for NYPD
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... With Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a self-described Democratic Socialist, now elected as New York City's next mayor, one of the biggest questions facing officers is how his leadership will affect the nation's largest police department.
Once an outspoken critic of the NYPD, the 34-year-old softened his tone during the campaign and pledged to keep Commissioner Jessica Tisch in place. His public safety platform differs from the approach taken under Mayor Eric Adams, proposing changes to how the department coordinates with City Hall.
Here's what his record and proposals indicate about what's ahead for the NYPD.
Mamdani says he'll keep Commissioner Jessica Tisch
Mamdani announced during an October debate that he intended to retain Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. According to CNN, he made the announcement publicly before ever speaking to Tisch directly, telling the network, "I haven't had a private conversation with her on that."
Mamdani expressed confidence she would remain in the role: "I am confident that we will be working together," he said.
He has publicly credited Tisch with rooting out corruption within the NYPD and overseeing a decline in crime rates, according to CNN.
The Department of Community Safety
A central component of Mamdani's agenda is the creation of a Department of Community Safety (DCS) -- a new civilian agency with a proposed $1.1 billion budget, according to a plan released by his campaign. About $605 million would come from existing programs moved under the department and $455 million would be new funding, generated through efficiencies and reallocated resources.
Mamdani says the department's mission is to "prevent violence before it happens" by addressing root causes such as poverty, mental illness, housing instability and inequality. The DCS, he says, will take a public health approach to crime prevention, prioritizing "prevention-first, community-based solutions." ...
@#3 ... Video from the scene captured two agents dragging the teacher from the day care, taking her into custody. According to Congressman Mike Quigley, the agents did not have a warrant. ...
Als sie kamen
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... "First They Came" (German: Als sie kamen lit.'When they came', or Habe ich geschwiegen lit.'I did not speak out'), is the poetic form of a 1946 post-war confessional prose piece by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemller (1892"1984).
It indirectly condemns complicity of German intellectuals and clergy following the Nazis' rise to power and subsequent incremental purging of their chosen targets. Many variations and adaptations in the spirit of the original have been published in the English language. ...
Looks promising, but this looks to be preliminary research. Let's see what the future research holds.
And, fwiw, a link to the article in Nature ...
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@#5
To wit ...
Gen Z Loves Retro Culture
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... "I'M SO EXCITED!" the 18-year-old college freshman was saying. "I can't believe I'm finally going to see Stevie Nicks!"
She and a friend had just bought tickets for a fall 2023 concert featuring Nicks"the former Fleetwood Mac singer"and Billy Joel, rock stars of the 1970s and '80s. Some young people in Gen Z, now between the ages of 11 and 26, have taken a passionate interest in the music, arts, culture and fashions of eras before they were born"the 1970s, '80s, '90s, early 2000s. ...
Fleetwood Mac - Landslide (1975)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
...
Nicks wrote "Landslide" while in Aspen, Colorado, inspired, while looking at the mountains, by the thought that everything in her life she'd been building could come crashing down at any time. It became a tale of love and life artfully woven behind the metaphor of a snowy mountain avalanche.
It was never originally released as a single ("Over My Head", "Rhiannon" & "Say You Love Me" were the album's three top 20 hits), but is considered one of the most known and cherished songs of the band's decades-long career. ...
[Verse 1]
I took my love, took it down
I climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills
'Til the landslide brought me down
[Verse 2]
Oh, mirror in the sky
What is love?
Can the child within my heart rise above?
Can I sail through the changin' ocean tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
Hmm-hmm, hmm-hmm
[Chorus]
Well, I've been afraid of changin'
'Cause I've built my life around you
But time makes you bolder
Even children get older
And I'm getting older too
...
From the sub-summary ...
... "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. ...
Mississippi - Political Alignment
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... Political alignment
Mississippi led the South in developing a disenfranchising constitution, passing it in 1890. By raising barriers to voter registration, the state legislature disenfranchised most blacks and many poor whites, excluding them from politics until the late 1960s.
It established a one-party state dominated by white Democrats, particularly those politicians who supported poor whites and farmers. Although the state was dominated by one party, there were a small number of Democrats who fought against most legislative measures that disenfranchised most blacks.[192]
They also sided with the small group of Mississippi Republicans that still existed in the state and Republicans at the federal level on legislative measures that benefited them.
Most blacks were still disenfranchised under the state's 1890 constitution and discriminatory practices, until passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and concerted grassroots efforts to achieve registration and encourage voting.[193] In the 1980s, whites divided evenly between the parties.
In the 1990s, those voters largely shifted their allegiance to the Republican Party, first for national and then for state offices.[194]
Gubernatorial elections
In 2019, a federal lawsuit claiming the provisions to be elected Governor were racially biased was filed against an 1890 election law known as The Mississippi Plan, which requires that candidates must win the popular vote and a majority of districts.[195]
The following year, 79% of Mississippians voted to remove the requirement of doing so.[196] Under the new law, any candidate who receives a majority of statewide votes will be elected; if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote, a statewide runoff election between the top two candidates will be held.[197]
These provisions were put in place with the 1890 Mississippi Constitution, itself established by the segregationist Redeemers and overturning the Reconstruction-era 1868 Constitution, as part of Jim Crow Era policy to minimize the power of African Americans in politics.[195]
Because of this, as well as present gerrymandering that packs African Americans into a small number of districts, the plaintiffs claimed that the provisions should be struck down on the basis of racial bias.[198] ...
@#115 ... "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants..and as of tonight, led by an immigrant"
~ Mamdani ...
Immigrants are those who helped to build this Country.
What's yer issue with that statement?