I would be wary of the crime stats the Chicago Police Department provides to the FBI for a number of reasons. First, the Chicago PD is short about 2,000 sworn officers. If an officer doesn't show up at a call for service due to being on another call, is a crime report generated? How many times is an aggravated assault (a recordable crime) reduced to simple assault (a non-recorded crime) or a burglary (a recorded crime) reduced to trespass (a non-recorded crime). Think of the thousands of felony level theft cases in which shoplifting thieves were never arrested because Kim Foxx would not prosecute. This type of bookkeeping would make Bernie Madoff blush. A final thought. You are right, Mamdani will win the election...and in spite of him talking about defunding the NYPD, he will have the largest NYPD security detail any NYC mayor has ever seen...much like Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's 150+ Chicago PD security detail.
Ha, hypocrisy knows no boundaries. His mom is worth millions (Bollywood director). Dad a prof at Columbia. The proletariat will suffer. No cops. Cops will leave. He will be fine.
Interesting assessment on the city of Chicago's crime statistics versus population. The city of Chicago's population peaked around 1950 with >3.6 million people and today it is less than 2.9 million. In 1985 the State Police took over responsibility for city of Chicago's highways or the highways that run through the city and so all crime (statistics)that take place on the city's highways go into the state totals, rather than the city totals. The state police have gotten much better at reducing the number of shootings, which had been up to an average of 10 a month just a few years ago.
So when people look at the total number of violent crimes in Chicago rarely is it a per capita or compared to pre-1985 levels.
Regarding Mamdani, his radical filmmaker mother is the one who called for banning Israeli actress Gal Gadot from the Oscars, just because she was from Israel, which is truly obnoxious.
His father, the professor at Columbia, participated in pro Hamas protests and riots on campus and there are pictures and videos of him calling for the extermination of the nation of Israel! That is who the people of New York voted for and had no clue.
Funny post I saw that's actually more sad than funny, is that the Google searches from the New York City area on definitions of the word "socialism" skyrocketed the day, before the day of and the day after the primary, meaning a lot of young people voted for that guy and had no clue what the heck they were doing or who they were voting for and that's absurd.
Just listened to the recent All-In podcast....they mentioned Chicago one time in it, and said they never want to go there. Chicago just isn't on the radar screen anymore with anyone.
LinkedIn in its original "form" was occasionally useful for networking/career mgt.
Those days are LONG gone. Whomever is managing it now (surely not Reed Hoffman, as he is busy with other Dem/Left Wing causes and NGOs) manipulates it totally for political ends. I am often "encouraged" to follow folks like Obama on the site.
I hope to retire in the next few years. It will be a glorious day when I erase my LinkedIn profile (which has never landed me a job offer or contact from a headhunter, but prospective clients still do look at it).
The only person who I check out on LinkedIn is Ken Cheng. He's a comedian whose posts are excellent parodies of the pompous puffery/humble brag/"management insights" that people post, but turned up to 11. Even better are the indignant replies he gets from the Margaret Dumont types: "How dare you post this, LinkedIn is a serious site for doing business, harumph!"
I never bothered with LinkedIn, or much of any "Social Media" because it was evident that it could eventually become political, as most do. I also thought it was a convenient mechanism for authoritarian surveillance, as most are.
It's going to be interesting to see what happens when the money and people leave. My guess is they will try to tax the people even after they left. They will try to get the state to bail them out, might work. They'll try to get Congress to bail them out: Think about the Children! Iffy. When it doesn't work they'll blame Trump. The NYT's will agree. That always works.
I would be wary of the crime stats the Chicago Police Department provides to the FBI for a number of reasons. First, the Chicago PD is short about 2,000 sworn officers. If an officer doesn't show up at a call for service due to being on another call, is a crime report generated? How many times is an aggravated assault (a recordable crime) reduced to simple assault (a non-recorded crime) or a burglary (a recorded crime) reduced to trespass (a non-recorded crime). Think of the thousands of felony level theft cases in which shoplifting thieves were never arrested because Kim Foxx would not prosecute. This type of bookkeeping would make Bernie Madoff blush. A final thought. You are right, Mamdani will win the election...and in spite of him talking about defunding the NYPD, he will have the largest NYPD security detail any NYC mayor has ever seen...much like Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson's 150+ Chicago PD security detail.
Ha, hypocrisy knows no boundaries. His mom is worth millions (Bollywood director). Dad a prof at Columbia. The proletariat will suffer. No cops. Cops will leave. He will be fine.
I do like how he properly eats his rice with his hands. Good luck NYC.
Chicago/Cook County Democrats have been living in a dream world for a long time.
Do they realize how much people laugh at them?
They don't care. They crave power.
Fat, dumpy, and stupid people can be like that!
Interesting assessment on the city of Chicago's crime statistics versus population. The city of Chicago's population peaked around 1950 with >3.6 million people and today it is less than 2.9 million. In 1985 the State Police took over responsibility for city of Chicago's highways or the highways that run through the city and so all crime (statistics)that take place on the city's highways go into the state totals, rather than the city totals. The state police have gotten much better at reducing the number of shootings, which had been up to an average of 10 a month just a few years ago.
So when people look at the total number of violent crimes in Chicago rarely is it a per capita or compared to pre-1985 levels.
Regarding Mamdani, his radical filmmaker mother is the one who called for banning Israeli actress Gal Gadot from the Oscars, just because she was from Israel, which is truly obnoxious.
His father, the professor at Columbia, participated in pro Hamas protests and riots on campus and there are pictures and videos of him calling for the extermination of the nation of Israel! That is who the people of New York voted for and had no clue.
Funny post I saw that's actually more sad than funny, is that the Google searches from the New York City area on definitions of the word "socialism" skyrocketed the day, before the day of and the day after the primary, meaning a lot of young people voted for that guy and had no clue what the heck they were doing or who they were voting for and that's absurd.
Just listened to the recent All-In podcast....they mentioned Chicago one time in it, and said they never want to go there. Chicago just isn't on the radar screen anymore with anyone.
I will be interested to see if the Wall Street money has the sense to get behind Adams and push for his reelection.
might not matter.
LinkedIn in its original "form" was occasionally useful for networking/career mgt.
Those days are LONG gone. Whomever is managing it now (surely not Reed Hoffman, as he is busy with other Dem/Left Wing causes and NGOs) manipulates it totally for political ends. I am often "encouraged" to follow folks like Obama on the site.
Why?
I hope to retire in the next few years. It will be a glorious day when I erase my LinkedIn profile (which has never landed me a job offer or contact from a headhunter, but prospective clients still do look at it).
The only person who I check out on LinkedIn is Ken Cheng. He's a comedian whose posts are excellent parodies of the pompous puffery/humble brag/"management insights" that people post, but turned up to 11. Even better are the indignant replies he gets from the Margaret Dumont types: "How dare you post this, LinkedIn is a serious site for doing business, harumph!"
I never bothered with LinkedIn, or much of any "Social Media" because it was evident that it could eventually become political, as most do. I also thought it was a convenient mechanism for authoritarian surveillance, as most are.
Amen! The right has struggled over the last 120 years with shinning the light on the reality of the left.
It's going to be interesting to see what happens when the money and people leave. My guess is they will try to tax the people even after they left. They will try to get the state to bail them out, might work. They'll try to get Congress to bail them out: Think about the Children! Iffy. When it doesn't work they'll blame Trump. The NYT's will agree. That always works.