The New York Post has been getting all the hot scoops about the Occupy Wall Steeet protesters, about how they're all hippies with the sex and the drugs and the hippie-being sex-having drug-smoking. Now however the Post has discovered... MURDER! Excuse me -- MURDER!
Bullets are flying over Broadway -- and everywhere else in the city.
The number of people shot surged 154 percent two weeks ago -- to 56 from 22 over the same week last year -- and spiked 28 percent in the last month.
Last week tallied another increase in victims -- 22 people had been hit through Friday, including the three victims gunned down outside a Brooklyn school Friday....
Four high-ranking cops point the finger at Occupy Wall Street protesters, saying their rallies pull special crime-fighting units away from the hot zones where they’re needed.
Since Occupy Wall Street took over Zuccotti Park on Sept. 17, the NYPD has relied heavily on its borough task forces, the department’s go-to teams for rowdy crowds.
But such protest duty takes the special units away from their regular jobs -- patrolling public housing and problem spots and staking out nightclubs plagued by violence, supervisors said.
“Normally, the task force is used in high-crime neighborhoods where you have a lot of shootings and robberies,” said one source.
“They are always used when there are spikes in crime as a quick fix. But instead of being sent to Jamaica, Brownsville and the South Bronx, they are in Wall Street.”
Steve M uses actual crime statistics charts and suspiciously complex items of that nature to debunk this, though Steve fails to recognize the Deeper Truth as revealed in the American Thinker comments section. ("This is exactlly the purpose of community organizers/agitators and Obama of all people knows this. He has a Ph.D. in street agitating.... This is Marx's slow drip dialectic of contradictions formula that leads to the apocalyptic explosion of bloody revolution... Format kid's brains with progressive coloring books and cartoons...")
One might also point out that if it were really the case, which it isn't, that people are getting killed in other parts of the city because the cops are at OWS, it would tell you everything you'd need to know about the priorities of the NYPD that they are not as interested in keeping poor people from getting shot as they are in maintaining an enormous presence at a non-violent protest that is bothering immensely rich corporations, because they were not, as it happens, pulling cops back to where the poor people were getting shot as opposed to keeping the cops at the place where nobody has any guns.
Fortunately, the story is crap, so the NYPD is off the hook on that one!
Whew!
From the same perspective one might also note that we likewise discern the proprities of the New York Post and nutball wingnut blogs, except it's not like we didn't know that already. See also Roy.