New Bad Days 61: Murders And Gang Activity On The Rise As MS-13 Member Shoots Down Rival Gangbanger By The 7 Train And A Teenage Gang Member Shoots At Rival Gang As A Little Girl Dodges Bullets Both At Broad Daylight; Bike Riders Get Killed By Reckless Truck Drivers Yet Leads To No Arrests; A Gas Spill Causes Sickness To Commuters And Workers, An Actual Stake Falls From The Elevated Train Tracks Onto A Car And Other Debris Are Falling From MTA Work Areas; Widespread Holdups, Muggings, Home Invasions, Bigoted Vandalism, Sexual Assaults, Burglaries, Random And Intentional Assaults, Slashings And Stabbings, Shootings, Public Drunkeness And Rapes Also Rise In The “Safest Big City In America”

                            The Omen, Queens edition. In the five boroughs in this short year, murders up a staggering 55% so far compared to last year, as total shootings went up by 69%. Rapes are also up another 21% and misdemeanor sex crimes (like groping) are up 26%, which the NYPD is still fallaciously tying to … Continue reading New Bad Days 61: Murders And Gang Activity On The Rise As MS-13 Member Shoots Down Rival Gangbanger By The 7 Train And A Teenage Gang Member Shoots At Rival Gang As A Little Girl Dodges Bullets Both At Broad Daylight; Bike Riders Get Killed By Reckless Truck Drivers Yet Leads To No Arrests; A Gas Spill Causes Sickness To Commuters And Workers, An Actual Stake Falls From The Elevated Train Tracks Onto A Car And Other Debris Are Falling From MTA Work Areas; Widespread Holdups, Muggings, Home Invasions, Bigoted Vandalism, Sexual Assaults, Burglaries, Random And Intentional Assaults, Slashings And Stabbings, Shootings, Public Drunkeness And Rapes Also Rise In The “Safest Big City In America”

New Bad Days 60: Two Thugs Challenge Cops To Fight Them On The Street Just To Induce A Lawsuit From The City; Another City Bus Gets Robbed; A Man Runs Into In A Chinese Restaurant And Kills Three Men With A Hammer And Another Man Wrecks A Convenience Store Because He Wasn’t Allowed To Take A Nap; Three Men Cut Loose A Scofflaws Car From An NYPD Tow Truck; Two Cops Leave A Gun On The Sidewalk After It Was Used In A Mugging And The Victim And The Cops Watch Another Man Pick It Up And Run Away; Woman Fatally Perishes From A Fall Trying To Get Into The Subway Without Elevator Access; Man Who Sadistically Assaulted A Woman On The Street Is Tied To A Killing Of Another Woman After The NYPD Closed The First Case; Bronx Subway Station Turns Into Opium Den; Missing Staten Island Man Presumed Dead And Murdered By His Friend; Serial Crime Sprees Occurring Ranging From Battery To Larcenies To Burglaries And A Tremendous Glut Of Gang Beatdowns, Subway Breakdowns Knife And Gun Holdups, Home Invasions, Shootings, Random And Stabbings, Slashings, Road Raging, Reckless Driving And Various Other Opportunity Crimes Committed In The First Wild Month Of The End Of The Decade

Aloha. From the safest big city in America, as proclaimed on this robust bold face lettered sign on a dais table in a room at 1 Police Plaza, four major crimes have gone up in the borough of Queens last year. Rapes went up by 40% with 389 from 302, felony assaults went up by … Continue reading New Bad Days 60: Two Thugs Challenge Cops To Fight Them On The Street Just To Induce A Lawsuit From The City; Another City Bus Gets Robbed; A Man Runs Into In A Chinese Restaurant And Kills Three Men With A Hammer And Another Man Wrecks A Convenience Store Because He Wasn’t Allowed To Take A Nap; Three Men Cut Loose A Scofflaws Car From An NYPD Tow Truck; Two Cops Leave A Gun On The Sidewalk After It Was Used In A Mugging And The Victim And The Cops Watch Another Man Pick It Up And Run Away; Woman Fatally Perishes From A Fall Trying To Get Into The Subway Without Elevator Access; Man Who Sadistically Assaulted A Woman On The Street Is Tied To A Killing Of Another Woman After The NYPD Closed The First Case; Bronx Subway Station Turns Into Opium Den; Missing Staten Island Man Presumed Dead And Murdered By His Friend; Serial Crime Sprees Occurring Ranging From Battery To Larcenies To Burglaries And A Tremendous Glut Of Gang Beatdowns, Subway Breakdowns Knife And Gun Holdups, Home Invasions, Shootings, Random And Stabbings, Slashings, Road Raging, Reckless Driving And Various Other Opportunity Crimes Committed In The First Wild Month Of The End Of The Decade

New Bad Days 59: Police Officer Gets Surrounded By Drunk Derelicts Then Drops Them One By One After Responding To A Citizen’s Complaint In A Train Station; Queens Con Ed Power Plant Transformer Explosion Fire Cracks The Sky And Social Media But Still No Revelations About Why It Happened; An Elderly Woman Gets Beaten Down By A Career Thug In Her NYCHA Apartment Building With Broken Locks; A Man Sneaks Into A House And Attacks A Woman In The Bedroom With Her Baby And While Her Husband Was In The Shower; Three City Bus Thefts Occur In Two Weeks, The Last Two By Teenage Hooligans; A Scumbag Steals A Motorized Wheelchair From A Handicapped Woman Who Needs It To Go To School And Shooting Heroin And Littering Needles In Public Parks Has Become Expected And Normalized By The Mayor And The NYPD

Manhattan In the Lower East Side at the East Broadway Station, 5 drunk men attacked a cop on the platform who was responding to a complaint a woman made of being sexually harassed by them. The fiends got dropped one by one as the cop kicked each fiend in the midsection as they approached and defended … Continue reading New Bad Days 59: Police Officer Gets Surrounded By Drunk Derelicts Then Drops Them One By One After Responding To A Citizen’s Complaint In A Train Station; Queens Con Ed Power Plant Transformer Explosion Fire Cracks The Sky And Social Media But Still No Revelations About Why It Happened; An Elderly Woman Gets Beaten Down By A Career Thug In Her NYCHA Apartment Building With Broken Locks; A Man Sneaks Into A House And Attacks A Woman In The Bedroom With Her Baby And While Her Husband Was In The Shower; Three City Bus Thefts Occur In Two Weeks, The Last Two By Teenage Hooligans; A Scumbag Steals A Motorized Wheelchair From A Handicapped Woman Who Needs It To Go To School And Shooting Heroin And Littering Needles In Public Parks Has Become Expected And Normalized By The Mayor And The NYPD

New Bad Days 57: Saudi Arabian Sisters Found Dead By The Hudson River Duct Taped Facing Each Other Crucifix-Style Doesn’t Warrant Further Investigation Or Local Or International News Intrigue ; Career Woman Stabbed To Death By Fellow Tenant At Co-Op Building; Elderly Man Killed By Asshole Trying To Catch The Train; Racist Picks Fight With Man In Pizzeria And Cuts His Eye With A Knife; Bronx Bodega Owners Demand Panic Buttons Following Frequent Violence And Robberies At Their Stores; Thief Easily Robs A Jewelry Vending Machine; Gang Chases A Man Into A Brooklyn Mall And He Shoots And Kills One Of Them As Security Guards Back Away; Man Stabs ACS Worker During Child Welfare Check; Teenager Brawls With Rikers C.O. And Kerry Kennedy Pays His Bail; Crime Scene Filming At Beauty Parlor Where Eric Garner Was Killed Gets Disrupted By Pissed Off Residents; Teenage Girl Escapes Custody From Cops That Inspires A Massive Deployment Street Search; Various Subway Violations Ranging From Groping, Lewdness, Assaults, Stabbings And Obnoxious White Privilege Vagrancy And Vandalism Rises Up As Well As Shootings, Stabbings, Muggings, Gang Attacks, Domestic Violence, And Road Rage By Citizens And City Service Workers And Alec Baldwin Gets Punchy Again.

Above: Tala and Rotana Farea. Sisters at the mercy of apparent Saudi Arabian oppressive sexist policies and American indifference. Manhattan In the Upper West Side in Riverside Park, two sisters were found dead duct taped by their wrists and ankles together in a crucifix position facing each other lying on the rocks by the Hudson … Continue reading New Bad Days 57: Saudi Arabian Sisters Found Dead By The Hudson River Duct Taped Facing Each Other Crucifix-Style Doesn’t Warrant Further Investigation Or Local Or International News Intrigue ; Career Woman Stabbed To Death By Fellow Tenant At Co-Op Building; Elderly Man Killed By Asshole Trying To Catch The Train; Racist Picks Fight With Man In Pizzeria And Cuts His Eye With A Knife; Bronx Bodega Owners Demand Panic Buttons Following Frequent Violence And Robberies At Their Stores; Thief Easily Robs A Jewelry Vending Machine; Gang Chases A Man Into A Brooklyn Mall And He Shoots And Kills One Of Them As Security Guards Back Away; Man Stabs ACS Worker During Child Welfare Check; Teenager Brawls With Rikers C.O. And Kerry Kennedy Pays His Bail; Crime Scene Filming At Beauty Parlor Where Eric Garner Was Killed Gets Disrupted By Pissed Off Residents; Teenage Girl Escapes Custody From Cops That Inspires A Massive Deployment Street Search; Various Subway Violations Ranging From Groping, Lewdness, Assaults, Stabbings And Obnoxious White Privilege Vagrancy And Vandalism Rises Up As Well As Shootings, Stabbings, Muggings, Gang Attacks, Domestic Violence, And Road Rage By Citizens And City Service Workers And Alec Baldwin Gets Punchy Again.

Errant Horizons: The Violent And Vehement Blowback From The Well But Neoliberal Intended Rikers Island Shutdown

The tattered banner says it all. The Four Boroughs, New York It was just over a year ago, when retired judge Johnathon Lippman and his professional peers compiled a study citing the horrid conditions regarding criminal impunity among inmates and correction officers, human rights violations and the myriad violent conditions in the environment in Rikers Island … Continue reading Errant Horizons: The Violent And Vehement Blowback From The Well But Neoliberal Intended Rikers Island Shutdown