Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Friday, October 12, 2012

The Five Percent - Crimes of The Times


Crimes of The Times - NYPOST.com

Last Updated: October 2, 2012
So far this year, public housing has accounted for nearly 20 percent of all shootings in the city, 10 percent of felony assaults and 11 percent of rapes — though less than 5 percent of city residents live in the projects. NYPD “vertical patrolling” of public housing for trespassers, who are often there for the worst of reasons, is a key aspect of bringing safety to their law-abiding residents.
Yet Bronx DA Robert Johnson in July adopted a policy ofnotprosecuting trespass arrests in the projects unless the arresting officer personally confirms the validity of the charge. Worse, his office can’t actually produce the evidence of false arrests that it cited to justify the new policy.
New York Times readers learned of the new policy in a Page One story last Wednesday — but reporter Joseph Goldstein misleadingly wrote that Johnson had enacted it after “discovering that many people arrested on charges of criminal trespass at housing projects were innocent, even though police officers had provided written statements to the contrary.”
Goldstein was plainly relying on a July 18 letter from Jeanette Rucker, an arraignments chief in Johnson’s office, to the head of the NYPD’s legal bureau — but her letter had already been seriously undercut.
Rucker wrote that Legal Aid defense attorneys had complained to her that their clients were arrested for trespassing in public housing, though they were legally on the premises. Rucker’s assistants investigated the claims and “in many (but not all) of the cases the defendants arrested were either legitimate tenants or invited guests,” she wrote.
But Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has credibly debunked Rucker’s allegations.
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