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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

3 years

[Narrator:] They ignored the lessons.

Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

7 years

NYC (8.5mil) has fewer murders than Baltimore (625,000). Just cause this is the new normal, don't ignore the lessons. It wasn't inevitable.

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Peter Moskos

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3 years

@BillWeirCNN Please find this man.

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Peter Moskos

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You'd think, "He tried to kill me in front of my kids" is a pretty strong argument. But apparently not strong enough.

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Peter Moskos

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10 days

Just your occasional reminder, especially if you don't live in NYC and think twitter accurately reflects the NYC subway, that generally the subway is calm and everybody is well behaved. Just commuting to or from work and school.

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Peter Moskos

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2 years

Crime is number one concern for black adults. Police doesn't even make the list. If this shocks you, ponder why you're so out of touch. Maybe even pipe down a bit on what you think are other people's priorities. There will be no NYT or NPR story on this.

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Peter Moskos

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29 days

Indeed. We had literally solved the problem of murder on the subway by getting the number in 2017 down to, wait for it: ZERO. Then, instead of doing what worked, we decided policing is racist, decriminalized turnstile jumping, and ordered transit police to stop enforcing rules.

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Peter Moskos

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7 months

I'm pretty quick to criticize anti-police progressive lefties. But anybody who gloats Ryan Carson "had it coming" because of his political beliefs should pause, and the shut the serious f*ck up. He did nothing wrong. And he was murdered. This could have been me with my wife.

Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

7 months

@Flatbush_kloud @peter_naps Killer takes knife out (at 03:50:58) and victim tries to retreat. Victims sees knife (presumably) and goes into full flight... right into the bus stop bench (51:00).

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Peter Moskos

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2 months

11 interesting minutes. And in English. "You have your own system. We don't tell you that you shouldn't have a monarchy. We're fine with your monarchy. It's your country, you can do whatever you want with it. But suddenly we have to do what you want with our country."

Nayib Bukele

@nayibbukele

2 months

My full answer to the BBC: Mi respuesta completa a la BBC:

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

3 months

"Broken Windows" policing in action: "On Friday, transit cops in Brooklyn stopped Luis Hernandez, 36, for smoking. He would have been released with just a summons but when officers ran his name they learned he was wanted for murder."

Man busted for smoking in subway charged with 2020 Queens murder

Police say Luis Hernandez and three or four others were involved in the Feb. 9, 2020, murder of Richard Hernandez, 21, in Astoria.

www.nydailynews.com

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

3 months

@ijbailey Uh, don't smoke on the subway?

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

2 months

A message sent to me by cop. He is correct: jfc just make transit cops actually ride the trains and tell them to write tickets again that's it that's all we need

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Peter Moskos

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2 years

It's hard enough to be a victim. And yeah, it's hard to feel at home when there are bullet homes in your kitchen. But the idea of being a victim and then having progressives protest in front of your house... in the name of the criminal. I feel for her.

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Peter Moskos

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2 years

@ZaidJilani @chrislhayes And the increase in violence has disproportionately affected blacks. But it offends the sensibilities of progressive whites—and no, I'm not joking or bring snarky—to even talk about such violence as it conflicts with a certain paternalistic worldview of oppression and victimhood.

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Peter Moskos

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7 months

“This is a difficult case for several reasons beyond the tragedy of the loss of life,” his lawyer told the judge. “You have an 18-year-old man — young man who has no criminal history.” Talk about chutzpah! No criminal record? Criminal records get sealed at 18! He just turned 18!

New York Post Metro

@nypmetro

7 months

Prosecutors lay out evidence against teen suspect charged with killing beloved NYC activist

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

4 years

Oh, and less than a month ago this same Sgt Marjorie Jordan ran into a burning building. "The blaze was first reported by Sgt. Marjorie Jordan, who was on patrol at the time. She immediately stated evacuating the homes after calling it in."

3-alarm fire rips through Jersey City home; 25 displaced

A two-alarm fire ripped through a building on Neptune Avenue in Jersey City early Wednesday morning.

www.nj.com

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

5 years

I called my credit card company. Gladys always picks up on the 2nd ring. "Credit Card services, Gladys. Hey, Pete!" Gladys has caller ID and last year I told her "Peter" is fine. "I can't pay because of the government shutdown." "We won't charge any interest! I'll work along."

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

2 years

Fun fact: in 1993 there were 18,623 people in NYC jails and 1,927 murders. After 10 years of "mass incarceration and broken windows policing," murders were down to 597 AND the jail population decreased to 14,157. They hate policing more than care about crime OR incarceration.

All In with Chris Hayes

@allinwithchris

2 years

. @chrislhayes on the San Francisco DA recall vote: The forces driving the nationwide rise in crime are larger than any one prosecutor. But blaming Boudin and the left at large has become useful for those who want to take us back to mass incarceration and broken windows policing.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

10 months

A country where an elected president has an ~85% approval rating and the murder rate is down 98%(!). It's not easy to spin that negatively, but the Guardian manages: "They do nothing to tackle underlying causes such as poverty and discrimination." And? 🧵

The Guardian view on El Salvador’s crime crackdown: a short-term, high cost fix | Editorial

Editorial: President Nayib Bukele’s hardline campaign against gangs has won admirers at home and abroad. Look closer and its flaws are glaring

www.theguardian.com

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

1 year

For a side that pushed the "it was just a friendly field trip" line for a long time, talk about saying the quiet part out loud. Also it's treason.

Kingsley Wilson

@KingsleyCortes

1 year

“If Steve Bannon and I had orchestrated Jan 6th - we would have won”- MTG at the @NYYRC Gala

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

2 years

@PramilaJayapal If you repeat the lie enough, that Brown was murdered, you might get more people to believe it. But that doesn't make it true. Stop repeating lies. Democrats should do better.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

9 months

After a 5-month delay, and despite two _very_ positive peer reviews, the faculty board at Columbia University Press just rejected my NYC Crime Drop book. The reviewers were too sympathetic to policing, they said. So I need a new publisher. Hopefully twitter can help me find one.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

10 months

This is one of my favorite pictures in the world. I'm serious

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

2 years

I just spent 5 days in Portugal. Cities were safe and clean. Very few people sleeping on the street. No open drug use. Back in NYC I was 5 seconds off the Airtrain from JFK at Jamaica before I saw humans suffering and a zombie like woman walking toward me in house slippers.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

3 years

I still can't believe this video. After 3 people were shot, cops arrested 5 of the offenders. Prosecutor Kim Foxx dropped felony charges and the 5 walked free. I still can't believe it.

CWBChicago

@CWBChicago

3 years

You may be reading about 5 men who prosecutors refused to charge after a gang-related gunfight left 1 dead and 2 injured Friday. Here's the video. You won't believe it. #Chicago

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

5 years

I think yesterday would have been a good time to do a spot check on cameras in this federal jail. Tomorrow is OK too. It's entire possible 90% of cameras are broken. It's also possible that they're all working fine, but these two. It's important to know.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

2 years

I had never heard of this Bobby Engle before, but refusing the president in that context is kind of a big deal. Kind of heroic.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

3 months

It's really amazing how the GOP Leadership has simply decided to be Trump's punk-ass bitch by rejecting a bill so that a crisis can be perpetuated, in order to hurt America and thus help Trump's electoral chances. Bold.

Jake Sherman

@JakeSherman

3 months

WOAH -- in a new statement, @SpeakerJohnson , @SteveScalise , @GOPMajorityWhip and @EliseStefanik have a new statement on the Senate supplemental. It reads, in part: “Any consideration of this Senate bill in its current form is a waste of time. It is DEAD on arrival in the House.…

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

4 years

This is an SNL skit on critical race theory.

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@SteveBellow

4 years

If everybody took De-escalation and implicit bias training before the flight, I’m positive this woman would have never acted like an idiot.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

2 years

What you're seeing is really not a great model of restorative justice, to put it mildly.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

1 year

Occasional reminder that NYC spends >$3 billion a year on homelessness. This is for a population of ~66,000 sheltered people (~108K individuals) and at least 2,400 on street. It's ~$30,000/person. But it mostly goes to "providers."

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

4 years

NYPD gets warrant, shows up with marked cars, protesters jump on and block police cars, chaos ensues: "NYPD provoked that response!" NYPD shows up in unmarked car, quick arrest, uniformed officers there in 10 secs, nobody gets hurt. "NYPD kidnapped!"

Video of N.Y.P.D. Pulling Protester Into Unmarked Van Draws Criticism (Published 2020)

The video of the woman’s arrest, shared widely on social media, was met with calls for an explanation from the police.

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

1 year

*Massive* reduction in the number of people killed by police over 50 years.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

7 months

And rising from human suffering, Shaun King, the ultimate grifter, emerges from the cloud of war to figure out how he can profit from misery.

Yael Bar tur 🎗️

@yaelbt

7 months

Guys, good news from the Middle East. Shaun King is on it, so we can expect a resolution any day now, inshallah 🙏

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Peter Moskos

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1 year

He's got a point. It would be amusing for a rich white suburban private prep school graduate to come to my class of public school students and tell them that the fear some of them have of riding the subway reflects "bourgeois values."

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Peter Moskos

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2 months

Oh, is this precious. Hate has no home here. No human is illegal. The avg household income in Park Slope is over $200k. Like public schools and depolicing, Park Slopers LOVE shelters, as long as it only applies to other people's neighborhoods. Not a good "fit" here or something.

Viral News NYC

@ViralNewsNYC

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Park Slope resident outraged over possibly new migrant shelter open up in the area .

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Peter Moskos

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2 years

1994 was the first year NYPD started caring about crime and thus began the greatest crime drop in American history. The "progressive" take: those were the bad years. Not the high crime years. The crime reduction years.

Opinion | Mayor Eric Adams Is Stuck on Ideas From 1994 for Crime in 2022 (Published 2022)

Tired “tough on crime” rhetoric is not the solution to crime in 2022.

www.nytimes.com

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

3 months

@ijbailey You're really arguing that policing smoking on the subway is harassment? And enforcement creates _distrust_ between police and community? You're out of your mind. This is why we can't have nice thing.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

2 years

The subway murder suspect was arrested. Legal Aid says "he was needlessly ambushed." His arrest was “completely inappropriate and unwarranted,” they say. They could have said nothing. They're literally complaining police arrested a murder suspect.

Suspect in fatal Q train shooting charged with murder

Daniel Enriquez, 48, was fatally shot Sunday, the NYPD said.

ny1.com

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

3 years

The largest one-year rise in violence in US history, literally 1,000s more people shot last year, and the victims are vastly disproportionately Black and Hispanic men. Most politicians have nothing even to say, much less a plan. And no, "reenvisioning" isn't a plan. Astounding.

Charmcitycop

@charmcitycop

3 years

Why aren’t politicians concerned? Prince Georges County, Maryland is suffering from a tidal wave of murders - DC is dealing with a murder surge too Why don’t the politicians care about regular people?

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Peter Moskos

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7 years

@realDonaldTrump Puerto Rico Puerto Rico Puerto Rico

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Peter Moskos

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10 months

Chicago just shrugs its big shoulder. Some say we need a "holistic solution"... to a problem that is so isolated and committed by so few people in so few places that it could be mitigated simply by locking up a few repeat violent offenders. It's a choice.

73 people shot, 11 fatally, over July Fourth weekend in Chicago that began and ended with mass...

Nearly half of the people shot were in just three police districts: Deering and Englewood on the South Side, and Chicago Lawn on the Southwest Side.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Peter Moskos

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2 years

@fredbauerblog Forget incarceration. Simple assault on a police officer won't be prosecuted at all. Not in the course of an arrest for minor crimes.

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Peter Moskos

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3 years

@BillWeirCNN After impaling a cop with a crutch, this guy drags the cop down the stairs.

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Peter Moskos

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3 months

I missed the memo that "victimless crimes" are now to include car thefts. "Victimless crimes" traditionally refer to illegal acts when both/all parties are willing participants, such as gambling, prostitution, and drug use. Stealing has a victim. That's why they call it theft.

Nora Loreto

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3 months

Imagine jailing people for a victimless crime.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

1 year

This is what passes as a public safety proposal in abolitionist circles. It's not even utopian, because utopian is at least good in theory. If somebody murders my brother, I have no desire to sit with the killer and develop an accountability and consequences plan.

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Peter Moskos

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26 days

Let the Catholics celebrate Easter. Call me old-fashioned, and I'm not religious, but I'm against disrupting religious services. It's a horrible line to cross. Consider the precedent here, and what might happen if this started to happen in synagogues or mosques.

PRO_NYC

@protest_nyc

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Three climate demonstrators arrested this evening after interrupting Easter services at St. Patrick's Cathedral with a banner reading, "Silence = Death." As they were shoved out, one yelled out, "Free Palestine!"

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Peter Moskos

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3 years

Back in 1996, GOAL (gay cops) had to sue the NYPD to march formally in the Pride Parade as NYPD. GOAL won and the NYPD was reluctantly dragged into the late 20th century. Now GOAL is banned from the Pride Parade because they're cops.

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Peter Moskos

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2 years

Toledo had a gun. The gun was fired. He was chased. He let go of the gun literally a split fraction of a second before being shot. In response Chicago has banned foot pursuits and is trying to fire the officer, who fired one shot and then rendered aid.

Chicago cop who fatally shot 13-year-old Adam Toledo now facing dismissal

Officer Eric Stillman chased Toledo into an alley in Little Village in March 2021 and fired a single shot into the teen’s chest, a split-second after the teen dropped a handgun and raised his hands.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

12 days

I don't know what else to say. This won't stop till voters elect politicians willing to change the laws so it does stop. "Unhinged man who allegedly punched 9-year-old girl at Grand Central Terminal had been released on assault charge days earlier."

Unhinged man who allegedly punched 9-year-old girl at Grand Central Terminal had been released on...

MTA Police apprehended the deranged man who allegedly punched a 9-year-old girl in a random attack at Grand Central Terminal on Saturday morning.

www.amny.com

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

2 years

There have always been some violently mentally ill people. The way to stop subway murders is to eject them from the subway for not following rules *before* they push somebody in front of a train. This used to be done. And there were (literally) no murders.

Deranged man pushes Asian woman to death at Times Square subway...

A deranged man fatally pushed an Asian woman in front of an oncoming subway train Saturday morning in Times Square, police and sources said.

nypost.com

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

3 years

This was real progress: in 1990 115 people shot (at?) by LAPD in 2019, 26. In 1990 NYPD shot 111 (killing 39). In 2019 NYPD shot 25 (killing 11). (and, if you're trying to figure out the rate, yes, the rate of police-involved shootings in NYC is a fraction of LA)

Conor Friedersdorf

@conor64

3 years

Among other changes: "Shootings by officers reached a 30-year low in 2019, with fatal shootings declining for the fourth year in a row, according to a new report on police use of force. LAPD officers opened fire on 26 suspects last year, compared with 115 in 1990." Just pr?

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

7 years

This is what happens when politics makes people afraid to call police. Not reporting crime isn't good for victims, criminals, or police.

Brandon del Pozo, PhD, MPA, MA

@BrandondelPozo

7 years

Says @LAPDChiefBeck : reports of sexual assault down 25% in Latino communities since January, w/no reason to think actual incidents declined.

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Peter Moskos

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7 months

There's something about the "Hi y'all," that gets me. If you're going to draft and issue a statement in support of the murder of unarmed civilians, you really should preface it with something other than "Hi y'all".

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

4 years

Anybody know if there's any comparable data from any other city? Police-involved shootings going back to 1970? Asking for a friend.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

29 days

The law is broken.

CeFaan Kim

@CeFaanKim

30 days

EXCLUSIVE: 57-year-old woman's mouth wired shut and jaw broken from random unprovoked attack. Suspect will be released, not bail eligible. Has 7 prior arrests.

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Peter Moskos

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7 months

This is life saving dispatch. This is the single best six minutes of dispatching I've ever heard. She is incredible. There's so much going on. She's juggling 8 balls, and never loses a beat. Makes it sound like just another day at the office.

3 officers shot in Philadelphia while responding to 911 call about a domestic shooting

Three Philadelphia police officers were shot Wednesday night while responding to a 911 call about a shooting at a home, officials said.

abcnews.go.com

Sgt. Mark Fusetti (Retired)

@MarkFusetti

7 months

Full radio transmission of the 4 Philadelphia Police Officers shot last night

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

4 months

Interesting that Miami has homelessness, poverty, and Covid, and yet almost nothing at the Walgreens was locked up. Also nobody outside the store is selling toiletries. Why? IDK. But if I had to guess, I'd suspect I'd because they never defacto decriminalized shoplifting.

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Peter Moskos

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1 year

@damintoell @RepRashida @StateDept @POTUS Fair question. Deserving of an answer. Comes down to "Do you believe Israel has a right to exist?"

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Peter Moskos

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7 months

"Let's go terrify children!" said no good person ever

Viral News NYC

@ViralNewsNYC

7 months

Midland Beach Staten Island NY Frustrated residents flash a light into a migrant housing facilities . 🎥 by @LeeroyPress For licensing email viralnewsnyc @gmail .com

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

2 years

Manahttan DA Alvin Bragg, the elected prosecutor, delivers as promised. The promise: "These policy changes ... will, in and of themselves, make us safer." This is what the people voted for, whether they knew it or not. Here are Bragg's Day One Policies and Procedures. 1/

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Peter Moskos

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1 year

This map is both amazing and terrifying. I compared the neighborhood I policed in Baltimore with where I live in Queens. Over 9 years in a 1-mile radius (AKA: π^2 mile): 1,011 shootings vs 39. Don't shift focus to anything else. Nothing can get fixed with that level of violence.

The Trace

@teamtrace

1 year

How many shootings have happened in your neighborhood over the last 9 years? Type in your address to find out:

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Peter Moskos

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People sometimes say I'm fighting strawmen when I talk of police abolitionists. "Nobody really believes that," they say. But they do! They write laws preventing dangerous people from being detained in NY. They write columns for the Chicago Tribune defending people who shoot cops.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

1 year

I'm sick and tired of white journalists telling us a rise in violence is a "false narrative." Violence is not at a historic low. Last year saw 203 murders in DC (2nd highest since 2003). The historic low was 88 murders in 2012. 96% of victims are Black. And carjacking is up.

Judd Legum

@JuddLegum

1 year

Violent crime in DC is actually at historic lows. And it went down 7% in 2022 and is already down another 7% in 2023. Obviously if you are the victim of a crime in DC that doesn't help you, but Washington Post reporters and its editorial board shouldn't push false narratives

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Peter Moskos

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124 people arrested more than five times each, just in the subway, just in 2023. These 124 people have been arrested 7,500 times. (Talk about 'can't stop won't stop.') Who is destroying subway quality of life? Them. 124 people. That's it.

NYPD Chief of Transit

@NYPDTransit

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In calendar year 2023, NYPD cops made over 13,600 arrests in the subway system. Of these 13,600 arrests, 124 people were arrested 5 or more times in the subway system in 2023 alone. When looking further, these 124 people combined, have been arrested over 7,500 times in their…

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Peter Moskos

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3 years

The more non-police agencies respond to calls police now respond to, the more those non-police workers will develop police attitudes and behaviors. Cops aren't born; they're made. There's a functional element to it. Not to say this is a deal breaker. Just want to point it out.

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Peter Moskos

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1 year

Ilan Omar claims on CNN: "I wasn't aware of the fact that there are tropes about Jews and money. That has been [a] very enlightening part of this journey." I do not believe her.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

3 years

I don't know about you, but I'm really excited about ranked-choice voting in the NYC mayoral primary! Not having such a low-turnout multiple-candidate very important election decided by a plurality is a real game changer. For the better.

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Peter Moskos

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Imagine if I told you there's a way (not cheap) to help people shot in NYC or Chicago, ~95% of whom are Black or Hispanic, get to a hospital 12% faster. But then I told you it's opposed by people who say it's racist because it leads to a racially disparate police response.

Ian T. Adams

@ian_t_adams

1 year

Gun shot detection gives a 12% head start on the process of getting aid to gunshot victims. Great new work from this team, on a much needed question.

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Peter Moskos

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Urban Dems, it can be this simple. 10 years ago it was OK to vote for the "most progressive" person in the Democratic primary. That's no longer the case. Because now the "most progressive" candidate is literally batshit crazy on public safety and criminal justice issues.

Swann Marcus

@SwannMarcus89

1 year

If the Democrats want to get away from being labeled soft-on-crime, they should probably avoid endorsing DA candidates who think it's okay for kids to drive around with stolen hand guns and mock people for being upset their car got ransacked

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Peter Moskos

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2 years

*except Asians, apparently.

ACLU

@ACLU

2 years

All students deserve equitable access to higher education. Along with @ACLU_Mass and @ACLU_NC , we are fighting to protect academic freedom and universities’ ability to grow a diverse student body.

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Peter Moskos

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3 years

I still think most people underestimate how close we came to losing that day. A lasting occupation/siege of the Capitol? Hostages? Trump flag flying? Trump saying "let's make a deal." Trump still in the White House It could have been fatal to America.

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Peter Moskos

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2 years

Can you imagine being murdered and then being grouped together in sympathy with the person who murdered you? Shameful representation.

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Peter Moskos

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For the headline to say "killed by a repeat offender who should have never been on the street" ignores the dedication and hard work of legions of reformers who work very hard to keep people out of jail and prison and get them back on the street.

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Peter Moskos

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This opposition isn't just to homeless people (some of it is). It's against a "progressive" ideology that insists society (ie: they) must tolerate people with severe mental illness and drug addiction (some of whom are violent) roaming the streets without policing or consequence.

Donghui for New York

@donghui4nyc

1 month

Thousands of people at today’s rally against homeless shelter at Brooklyn 2501 86th street organized by @AMWilliamColton and @susanzhuangnyc . They want “NO MORE SHELTER”, have you heard of them @NYCSpeakerAdams @NYCCouncil @NYCMayor ?

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

2 months

If America arrested only murderers — nobody else in jail or prison — if we caught them all and each served 20 years, we'd have ~400,000 criminals in prison. Our incarceration rate of 120 (per 100k) would still be higher than the EU average (and twice as high as the Netherlands).

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

2 years

What I don't get about the WaPo and NYT when they refuse to print the race of the killer when the killer is Black and has expressed racist attitudes (so seems relevant) is who are they protecting? The tender eyes of their readers? It's not like other media keeps it secret.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

7 years

Translation of NRA's philosophy: "smart people, experienced people, and inquisitive people are American's greatest domestic threats."

Jennifer Wright

@JenAshleyWright

7 years

The head of the NRA said: "academic elites, political elites, and media elites. These are America’s greatest domestic threats"

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

2 months

It's not a total meltdown. It's an legitimate (and passionate) reaction from AOC, my representative, to the left-wing kooks that eventually have to be confronted by all good Democratic politicians. Because they can't be appeased away. Start at 1 min if you want.

Breaking911

@Breaking911

2 months

“IT’S FUCKED UP, MAN!” AOC has total meltdown when confronted leaving movie theater by fellow liberals who demand she say the word ‘Genocide’

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

7 months

I learned tonight that NYPD officers are getting charged by the Civilian Complaint Review Board and punished by the NYPD for — I'm not making this up —"threatening arrest." Cops. Warning people commiting crimes they need to desist. Or else. The anti-policing world has gone mad.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

4 months

It's a political choice: "He fled but got arrested within 48 hours. As a result, he could not be charged with escape. The SAFE-T Act decriminalized absences of less than 2 days." "What? Can you really flee electronic monitoring for 2 days and it doesn't matter?" Yes.

CWBChicago

@CWBChicago

4 months

A man has been sentenced to 20 years for murdering his cousin while on electronic monitoring. He fled but got arrested within 48 hours. As a result, he could not be charged with escape. The SAFE-T Act decriminalized absences of less than 2 days.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

7 years

This might be the time for a reporter to keep filming and get arrested in the nation's interest.

Brian Beutler

@brianbeutler

7 years

Republicans don't want to be caught on camera running away from questions about their secret bill to take health insurance from millions.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

11 months

Did you hear about the chokehold death in NYC where the killer wasn't arrested at first after holding the victim for 10 min? Then released on recognizance despite the advice of his lawyer? No? Why not? Corde Scott is the dead kid. I'd never heard his name.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

2 years

More people have been murdered on the NYC subway this year than unarmed black people shot & killed by police, nationwide. They're not related, except the reaction. The latter sparked a national "reckoning" while with the former I'm hearing we shouldn't "over-react" to anecdotes.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

6 years

After trying the more guns thing, could we try the fewer guns thing?

Mikel Jollett

@Mikel_Jollett

6 years

Texas gun laws: ▪️No background checks. ▪️No registration. ▪️No license required. ▪️No assault weapon ban. ▪️No magazine capacity restriction. ▪️No law requiring stolen guns to be reported. These kids are sitting ducks.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

3 years

There are certain mistakes you're just not allowed to make as a police officer. This is one of them.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

2 years

I mean, feel free to hate police as much as you want. It's a free country. But please don't hate police for other people you don't know and probably have a much more nuanced position on law enforcement than you do.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

1 year

Gun buy backs do not work. We know this. There is literally nothing more proven in the entire field criminal justice. We know this more than we know anything. These events are worthless. (They do, however, give police and politicians "free" tax-payer funded publicity.)

Julia Salazar

@JuliaCarmel__

1 year

Gun buyback events like this one play a critical role in getting firearms off our streets in NYC, and have proven to be successful. Right now from 10:00am to 1:00pm in Bed-Stuy (115 Throop Ave) 👇

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

7 months

Today at the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) rally people cheered when a speaker spoke approvingly of Hamas killing and kidnapping "hipsters" at a rave. They cheered this at Times Square. Believe them. Progressive New Yorkers need to stop voting for these people.

Atticus Finch (of Georgia)

@Atticus59914029

7 months

Anti-Semitism is alive and well on the American right and left. We’ve seen it growing on the right. The past 48 hours have revealed it in all its horror among elements of the left. Some are excusing kidnappings, rapes, murders. It is vile beyond description.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

2 years

I find the NYT prism so odd. The Cross Bronx X-way displaced 10,000s. I believe the majority were white (often Jewish) and Puerto Rican. So how does the NYT summarize? "The Robert Moses-era highway displaced Black families." That's really all they can see.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

1 year

This is the police abolitionists' dream. Or at least the reality. Instead of calling police because somebody was trying to steal their car, potential victims get together with their neighbors to deescalate the situation and then provided services to the potential criminal.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

3 years

@BillWeirCNN This is his partner in crime, dragging the cop down the stairs. Beige jacket, green backback, black helmet. He's (barely) in the bottom left of the frame at 33 sec, right when man shouts "take him out."

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

5 months

I'm thrilled to announce that the board of Oxford University Press has APPROVED my book for publication! This is on the 1990's New York City crime drop, told by cops who were on the job. This is after "issues" at two prior (lesser?) academic presses. The 3rd time was charm.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

11 months

The 13-year-old was targeted (mistakenly or not, IDK) outside his school. Chased, shot, and killed. In front of 8th graders on the playground. I really don't get how people can be so totally outraged at one death but then completely ignore all the others.

13-year-old Staten Island boy who was unintended target of gangbanger dies of gunshot wound, NYPD...

A 13-year-old boy shot in the head at a Staten Island playground last week died Monday, hours before investigators captured the teenage gangbanger who pulled the trigger on the wrong target, police…

www.nydailynews.com

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

4 months

It's not insane. It's inhumane. Shame on those who insist this is a choice we should respect. That we listen to such people, however, is on us.

Viral News NYC

@ViralNewsNYC

4 months

This is insane 🐀 🐁 🐭 🐀

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

28 days

NYC spends 58% of the budget on education and social services; 9% on police, fire & corrections COMBINED. So why the obsession with cutting the 9%? Because she's wants to end policing. It's not about investment. She's an abolitionist. Believe her.

Tiffany Cabán

@tiffany_caban

29 days

Round after round of budget cuts for education, public health, sanitation, parks, and homeless services… but an endless abundance of money for surveillance tech grifters. We need to get serious about public safety and start investing in mental health and affordable housing.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

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@richmintz That's a really bad take. Because literally it's a funeral procession for a murdered police officer. I guess you've never attended one? Powerful stuff. Especially if you have ever taken a literal oath to literally put your own life on the line in public service.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

3 years

"Target has now acknowledged that San Francisco is the only city in America where they have decided to close some stores early because of the escalating retail crime." But I can't be true because last month a prof said on Twitter: "ZERO data for it."

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

1 year

A lot of wierd shit has happened in the five decades of my life, but the single weirdest thing may be the relatively recent Republican embrace of totalitarian Russia. Just to own the libs? Pro NATO was literally a foundational belief of Reagan Republicanism.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

3 months

A few years ago we went over a year with zero subway murders. Then deBlasio told the NYPD to stop enforcing subway rules (Eg: loitering & lying down) but to "offer help." Then we downgraded turnstile jumping. If you refuse to believe in cause and effect, I'll never convince you.

Reza Chowdhury

@RezaC1

3 months

Since Michelle Go’s murder two years ago in the NYC subway, 15 other people have been murdered in the transit system. From 2010-2019, there were 15 murders total in the subway during the entire 10-year period. This is the normalization of violent crime.

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Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

7 months

The 18-yr-old woman who (probably) stabbed a girl to death in the Loop was awaiting trial for beating and robbing a person on the L. Rarely are these one-offs. I don't get how people just assert, "pre-trial release doesn't impact public safety."

Peter Moskos

@PeterMoskos

7 months

JFC. Heaven Taylor, 16, was murdered in the Loop. She has a 2-year-old son. Heaven's 29-year-old brother was murdered last year. Their mother was also shot and wounded. No one has been charged with either killing.

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