During his announcement, de Blasio cited research showing that connecting ex-cons to jobs can reduce recidivism by 22 percent. [More]Meaning 78% represent a known danger to have around...?
And that's assuming the "research" isn't agenda-driven happy talk?
What's it take for a regular citizen to be able to carry a gun in NYC again? You know, as a precaution...?
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I believe the answer to your question (though, most likely, rhetorical) is the dissolution of the NYC govt. Most likely, it'll take the almost complete destruction of the city itself... I'm picturing old WWII film of any number of cities and towns after being bombed to hell. Maybe I'm wrong, but there seems to be 3 types of people in the city. Poor that will almost never leave (except in event of said destruction in a mass apocalyptic exodus). The wealthy that are already leaving in a less impressive exodus but F'ing the state up as they flood into rural areas and pollute the voter base with their city (poisonous) mindset/lifestyle. And the never ending turn over of 90% undeserving "refugees" that'll just keep adding to the anti-gun dogma so they can get their free housing/food/medical (cue the single issue meme). And of course there is a fourth kind: the ultra rich politically connected aristocratic douche bags that treat everyone and everywhere as their own personal birthright. I suppose if they were to meet a fate that rendered their abilities to interject/intervene/interfere with any aspect of life, that might get carrying in the city to be "allowed" again.
But let's not forget, without that class and their superior financial abilities and omnipotent intellect, there'd be a vacuum of power in which all the big bad guys would oppress people and none could carry anyway. (Sarcasm)
This is just another typically stupid Democrat entitlement program. Yes, getting ex-cons employed greatly reduces recidivism, mainly because their government-reported records render them almost entirely unemployable in the private sector until their parole is ended. But giving them eight-week jobs on the public dime, after which they will still be unemployable for the next three to ten years, is obvious feel-good bullshit. If the government is interested in making sure these people hold jobs, it needs to work on the demand side, not the supply side — like maybe some program that would rate released cons and encourage employers to hire the ones that were the best “good conduct” risks. But that would require actual work from some prisons bureaucrat! Better to just create a new entitlement they can throw more public money at, and pretend they have done something meaningful.
Your math is only correct if the recidivism rate is currently 100 percent, which it almost assuredly isn't.
Yeah, probably, but that also assumes he didn't pull 22% out of his... thin air.
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