Some Red State/Blue State Indicia
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zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
So what your'e saying is we should let Democrats run more states to lower the murder rate since they're doing a better job keeping the murder rate in cities down, got it.
But you are statistically still unlikely to be murdered in NYC tomorrow and the differences could be due to sheer number of people rather than specifically poor governance.
zitothebrave
Connoisseur of Minors
There were less thana murder a day in NYC. If you're not a member of a gang odds of gettign killed in a city are really small.
Robbed, etc. yes there's a huge risk there compared to elsewhere.
My sister has lived in big cities (Baltimore, Melbourne, and DC) for over 20 years and never had an issue. most people I know who've lived in cities have never had issues as long as you're smart.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
The Federal Bureau of Investigation said that it was examining an Islamic State flag that was found in the truck used in the attack and that it believed the Mr. Jabbar “was not solely responsible.” Several improvised explosive devices were found and disposed of, officials said.
Mr. Jabbar, who officials confirmed was honorably discharged from the Army, had converted to Islam at some point, according to Dwayne Marsh, who is married to Mr. Jabbar’s ex-wife Nakedra Charrlle. Mr. Jabbar and Ms. Charrlle had two daughters, ages 15 and 20, Mr. Marsh said, adding that “the girls are a mess” after the attack.
In recent months, he said, Mr. Jabbar had been acting erratically, “being all crazy, cutting his hair” after converting, Mr. Marsh said. Mr. Marsh and his wife then stopped allowing the daughters to spend time with Mr. Jabbar, he said.
In a YouTube video from 2020 that appears to have been posted by Mr. Jabbar, he spoke positively about his skills in real estate. He said he had been born and raised in Beaumont, Texas, and had served in the U.S. military.
“I’ve been here all my life, with the exception of traveling for the military,” he said. Court records from his first divorce, in 2012, list his employment as active duty with the U.S. Army and his residence at the time as Fort Bragg, in North Carolina.
In the video, Mr. Jabbar said that in his 10 years in the armed forces, he had worked as a human resources specialist and an information technology specialist.
Criminal records in Texas show that Mr. Jabbar had previously been charged with minor infractions — once in 2002 for a misdemeanor theft and once in 2005 for driving with an invalid license.
The vehicle used in the New Orleans attack, an electric Ford pickup, was registered to a Houston man who made vehicles available for rent on a peer-to-peer car sharing website. That man, who asked that his name not be made public, said that he and his family had been preparing for an outing to the zoo on Wednesday morning when he saw the news of the attack and recognized his truck as the one involved.
The man said the F.B.I. called him and he explained that he had not been driving the vehicle but had rented it out. He said he had been asked by the federal agents not to discuss the matter publicly.
Records show that Mr. Jabbar was married twice, with his first marriage, to Ms. Charrlle, ended in 2012. In the midst of a second divorce in January 2022, Mr. Jabbar wrote an email to his wife’s lawyer in which he described financial problems. “I cannot afford the house payment,” he wrote.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...smid=url-share
Mr. Jabbar, who officials confirmed was honorably discharged from the Army, had converted to Islam at some point, according to Dwayne Marsh, who is married to Mr. Jabbar’s ex-wife Nakedra Charrlle. Mr. Jabbar and Ms. Charrlle had two daughters, ages 15 and 20, Mr. Marsh said, adding that “the girls are a mess” after the attack.
In recent months, he said, Mr. Jabbar had been acting erratically, “being all crazy, cutting his hair” after converting, Mr. Marsh said. Mr. Marsh and his wife then stopped allowing the daughters to spend time with Mr. Jabbar, he said.
In a YouTube video from 2020 that appears to have been posted by Mr. Jabbar, he spoke positively about his skills in real estate. He said he had been born and raised in Beaumont, Texas, and had served in the U.S. military.
“I’ve been here all my life, with the exception of traveling for the military,” he said. Court records from his first divorce, in 2012, list his employment as active duty with the U.S. Army and his residence at the time as Fort Bragg, in North Carolina.
In the video, Mr. Jabbar said that in his 10 years in the armed forces, he had worked as a human resources specialist and an information technology specialist.
Criminal records in Texas show that Mr. Jabbar had previously been charged with minor infractions — once in 2002 for a misdemeanor theft and once in 2005 for driving with an invalid license.
The vehicle used in the New Orleans attack, an electric Ford pickup, was registered to a Houston man who made vehicles available for rent on a peer-to-peer car sharing website. That man, who asked that his name not be made public, said that he and his family had been preparing for an outing to the zoo on Wednesday morning when he saw the news of the attack and recognized his truck as the one involved.
The man said the F.B.I. called him and he explained that he had not been driving the vehicle but had rented it out. He said he had been asked by the federal agents not to discuss the matter publicly.
Records show that Mr. Jabbar was married twice, with his first marriage, to Ms. Charrlle, ended in 2012. In the midst of a second divorce in January 2022, Mr. Jabbar wrote an email to his wife’s lawyer in which he described financial problems. “I cannot afford the house payment,” he wrote.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...smid=url-share
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
The FBI and New Orleans police no longer believe there are any other suspects involved in the New Year's truck attack on Bourbon Street that killed 15 people and injured dozens more, multiple law enforcement sources told ABC News.
After investigators reviewed all of the surveillance videos more closely, it appears that the suspect, 42-year-old Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar, placed explosive devices in the area himself and then changed clothes. Those clothes were found in the vehicle, the sources said.
The FBI is still investigating whether there were individuals Jabbar spoke to or messaged with prior to the early Wednesday attack, but no one was in the vicinity to help him do anything, the sources said.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/new-orleans-attack-latest-police-probe-suspect-motive/story?id=117262459
After investigators reviewed all of the surveillance videos more closely, it appears that the suspect, 42-year-old Army veteran Shamsud-Din Jabbar, placed explosive devices in the area himself and then changed clothes. Those clothes were found in the vehicle, the sources said.
The FBI is still investigating whether there were individuals Jabbar spoke to or messaged with prior to the early Wednesday attack, but no one was in the vicinity to help him do anything, the sources said.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/new-orleans-attack-latest-police-probe-suspect-motive/story?id=117262459
acesfull86
Well-known member
So much of the disorder in NYC, especially in the subway system, doesn't get captured in data. When you see people jumping the turnstiles, when you get on a subway car and someone's shooting drugs, when a crazy person is staggering around the car shouting at people, etc., etc. ...no one reports this stuff. There's no good, reliable data, but speaking from experience, you're going to see something of the sort nearly 100% of the time. Murders are down and that's great, but ask people who are regularly in NYC using public transportation, and to a person they'll tell you it's worse than it's been in years. I get a kick out of non-NYC'ers on social media or wherever else trying to convince you otherwise.
Tapate50
Well-known member
Anyone knows the data can be manipulated as well.
And we have seen how good the FBI is these days it’s not like they have it on lock
sturg33
I
It's the only time leftists tell people to reject their "lived experiences"
acesfull86
Well-known member
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/01/04/new-york-florida-liberal-failure/
New York, where I live, and Florida, where I often visit, provide an interesting contrast.
They have comparable populations — New York with about 20 million people, Florida with 23 million. But New York state’s budget is more than double that of Florida ($239 billion vs. roughly $116 billion). New York City, which is a little more than three times the size of Miami-Dade County, has a budget of more than $100 billion, which is nearly 10 times that of Miami-Dade. New York City’s spending grew from 2012 to 2019 by 40 percent, four times the rate of inflation. Does any New Yorker feel that they got 40 percent better services during that time?
What do New Yorkers get for these vast sums, generated by the highest tax rates in the country? (If you are well off in New York City, you pay nearly as much in income taxes as in London, Paris or Berlin — without free higher education or health care.) New York’s poverty rate is higher than Florida’s. New York has a slightly lower rate of homeownership and a much higher rate of homelessness. Despite spending more than twice as much on education per student, New York has educational outcomes — graduation rates, eighth-grade test scores — that are roughly the same as Florida’s.
New York, where I live, and Florida, where I often visit, provide an interesting contrast.
They have comparable populations — New York with about 20 million people, Florida with 23 million. But New York state’s budget is more than double that of Florida ($239 billion vs. roughly $116 billion). New York City, which is a little more than three times the size of Miami-Dade County, has a budget of more than $100 billion, which is nearly 10 times that of Miami-Dade. New York City’s spending grew from 2012 to 2019 by 40 percent, four times the rate of inflation. Does any New Yorker feel that they got 40 percent better services during that time?
What do New Yorkers get for these vast sums, generated by the highest tax rates in the country? (If you are well off in New York City, you pay nearly as much in income taxes as in London, Paris or Berlin — without free higher education or health care.) New York’s poverty rate is higher than Florida’s. New York has a slightly lower rate of homeownership and a much higher rate of homelessness. Despite spending more than twice as much on education per student, New York has educational outcomes — graduation rates, eighth-grade test scores — that are roughly the same as Florida’s.