Amid a staggering wave of gun violence in New York City, with shootings this year measuring 42 percent higher than the same period in 2020, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he plans to deploy the NYPD to track down and question people who have expressed "Hate," albeit without committing any crime or violation.
"Even if something is not a criminal case," the mayor explained, "a perpetrator being confronted by the city, whether it's NYPD or another agency, and being told that what they've done was very hurtful to another person and could if ever repeated, lead to criminal charges, that's another important piece of the puzzle."
Asked how the NYPD would confront someone who has done something "Hateful" but committed no crime, de Blasio enlarged on his prescription.
"If someone has done something wrong, but not rising to a criminal level, it's perfectly appropriate for an NYPD officer to talk to them to say that was not appropriate.... I assure you if an NYPD officer calls you or shows up at your door to ask about something that you did, that makes people think twice."
What makes beating someone up "Hatefully" worse than beating them up ... lovably? The point of hate crimes as a category is to express how especially heinous society finds crimes motivated by ideologies of bias like racism, anti-Semitism, or homophobia.
The irony is that Mayor de Blasio, following the demands of the anti-policing movement, has made clear that he wants less NYPD involvement in public safety.
The mayor has thus clarified his beliefs: real crime in New York City is overpoliced, while speech is over-tolerated.
https://www.city-journal.org/mayor-tasks-nypd-to-investigate-noncriminal-hate
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