Purplehood wrote:chasfm11 wrote:They say that best course of action with a bad law is to vigorously enforce it. I say "go for it."
If you peel back the onion in places like NYC and Chicago, a significant part of problem seems to be that those responsible for felonies don't get prosecuted for them. The jails are already full and often overcrowded so the courts allow new offenders to plea bargain down to probation and they are put back onto the street.
I think the suspects who would violate the "annoy the police" parameters like spitting on them will be part of the already burgeoning group without a basic respect for the rule of law. Any kind of mass enforcement is going to further crowd the jails and further the public outcry against the PD and the politicians who are abusing it.
Am I worried that this law will increase police abuse? Not in the least. Cuomo, Bloomberg and their minions already have taken government overreach through the PD to unforgivable levels. This law isn't going to make that worse than it already is.
The good people of NY need to suffer under the politicians that they continue to elect as much as possible. It is unfortunate that a minority of New Yorkers feel more like Texans do and they will have to suffer, too. The more that this kind of stuff goes on, the quicker that the Cuomo regime will fall of its own weight just like the government of Detroit did. It is the same substance, just in different degrees of corruption.
I worry specifically about the powers-that-be not applying this exclusively to those without respect for the law.
They already do that for existing laws. Have you seen the incidents where otherwise innocent citizens are prosecuted for gun law violations? Then you read about all of the murders in Queens and all of the stop and frisk activity that is going on. There is no way that everyone of them is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Selective enforcement is a political tool. I was reading another thread by a MD Sheriff who is treating the recently passed and Draconian MD gun law as selectively enforceable. Most selective enforcement, however, is done specifically to further political goals as it is with immigration.
The whole idea of laws in places like NY and NJ is to tame the populace to the political will. If the police in Newark, NJ enforced the existing gun laws on everyone who violates them for just one week, the jail population would mushroom. Like Chicago, the Newark PD turns a blind eye to the worst parts of that city and allows those with illegal guns to simply carry on. We lived in NJ, outside of Newark and traveled in NY regularly. I can tell you from that experience that there is no difference between the two other than NJ gun laws were even more Draconian than NY's used to be. A suburbanite of Newark has a lot better chance of being prosecuted for a gun violation than a gang banger in Newark. Rural NY, in places like the Finger Lakes, is much closer to Texas than Buffalo, Albany or NYC.
