He's got greasy fingers....
"With 12 pedestrians deaths so far this year, new Mayor Bill de Blasio is taking aim at that defiant ‘‘I’m walkin’ here!’’ attitude. De Blasio says there are persistently too many, and he wants to attack them in the same way the city reduced murders to a record low of 333 last year [by] aggressive action [and a] focus on jaywalking....
Why did the chicken cross the road at his own risk?
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I'm surprised there was no mention of where the term came from.
Why the murder rate came down:
"NYC to settle stop-and-frisk lawsuit" by Benjamin Weiser | New York Times, January 31, 2014
NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday that New York City had reached an agreement with civil rights lawyers who had challenged the Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices, which would allow the sweeping reforms ordered by a federal judge last summer to be carried out.
Those changes, which included the appointment of a federal monitor, were blocked last fall after the Bloomberg administration appealed the judge’s rulings, which found that the city’s stop-and-frisk policies were unconstitutional and that the department had resorted to “a policy of indirect racial profiling.”
The judge, Shira A. Scheindlin of US District Court in Manhattan, had ruled that the policy resulted in “the disproportionate and discriminatory stopping of blacks and Hispanics in violation of the Equal Protection Clause.”
In announcing the agreement, de Blasio pledged a “commitment to fix the fundamental problems that enabled stop-and-frisk to grow out of control and violate the rights of innocent New Yorkers.”
His first broken campaign promise, for he said he would eliminate stop-and-frisk.
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More: NYC reaches deal to end battle over stop-and-frisk policy
UPDATE: I'm sorry, folks, but I'm walking away from the blog for the rest of the day. I might be back, but then again I more than likely might not. This isn't any fun anymore.
