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Peter Moskos
@PeterMoskos
Back from the Brink: amzn.to/4iX13h1 Police focused (+ transit & pigeons). The bouncer blocks quickly, sometimes just for bad vibes. @moskos elsewhere.
New York, NY
Joined November 2011
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    I've said this before, but rule of law is vitaly important. It is not liberal or conservative. For 6000 years rule of law has been the North Star of civilization.
    Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."
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    Not quite. Poor people and all transit commuters yearn for public transportation without criminals and mentally ill people enabled by upper middle class apologists who think such things are synonymous with being poor.
    The upper middle class yearns for public transit but without poor people
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    Chicago got rid of ShotSpotter because people voted for progressives who said gunshot detection is racist because it brings increased police response disproportionately to black and brown neighborhoods. That's what they said.
    A passerby found a woman fatally shot in a Far South Side alley Sunday morning. No one called 911. Police say she was shot twice in the head. As the CPD dispatcher noted on-air: “And we don’t have a ShotSpotter.” cwbchicago.com/2025/10/woman-…
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    Replying to @BillWeirCNN
    Please find this man.
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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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    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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    Why do people not understand the importance of due process? Everything breaks down without it. It's so important it's in not one but two amendments.
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    Whatever one thinks of free-market capitalism, there's something very bizarre when corporations (insurance or drugstores) leave an area saying "yeah, not worth it. Not making money," and progressives insist they're making money and just leaving out of spite.
    Do not, under any circumstance, buy this corporate propaganda from dominant home insurance carriers like State Farm. California law allows insurers to make reasonable profits on the risks they take. If state regulators rejected a premium level proposed by State Farm, it was
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    State Farm lost $4.7 B in 2023 due to higher than expected claims and catastrophes. If they had not canceled those 1600 policies, they might double their losses for this year. That State Farm would have been able to make a reasonable profit is not supported. x.com/haridigresses/…
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    Back from the Brink (my book) describes how NYC crime plummeted in the 1990s (murders decreased more that 70%!) while poverty in the city _increased_. I wish people could understand these concepts.
    I truly wish people could understand these concepts.
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    I get that he is young and charismatic and his ads are great (and unlike Cuomo, a decent human being. He's also my state rep (and won't return my calls). But it should matter more that literally all his policy proposals are bad.
    NYC socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani a fan of abolishing SHSAT for elite schools trib.al/eLLPSnJ
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    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. pewresearch.org/race-ethnicity…
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    Can I hear a rational reply from any of my right-wing followers who would like to defend this as acceptable American law enforcement in 2025? Because I find it an abomination.
    Little Tokyo today in LA outside Gavin Newsom’s press conference. No badge number, no name plate, no identifying marks. I don’t know how you can call yourself a man and go about your life like this.
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    This may shock some, but the Central Park Five were not innocent or framed. Their conviction was "vacated" (like a gubernatorial pardon of sorts), not overturned. The question is what _exactly_ they were guilty of, since DNA shows another person left seman on the victim.
    They brought the Central Park 5 on stage.
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    Bloomberg managed the city well enough that people became convinced the city could basically run itself no matter what fool was in charge. And with a balanced budget. And since there were no murders on the subway, people decided the biggest problem on the subway was policing.
    A fair headline, but New York City had a very nice Mayor at the beginning of this century, and he got elected to 3 consecutive terms. But by the end, people decided they hated him because he was rich and also said maybe kids shouldn’t drink massive jugs of soda all the time.