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Always nice when law enforcement is a bigger problem than the problem they attempt to solve. Poor woman.
https://www.pressreader.com/usa/new-york-daily-news/20171127...
Always nice when law enforcement is a bigger problem than the problem they attempt to solve. Poor woman.
Indeed, it is very important to remember that there is always a human cost of making things illegal, and that the harm of the enforcement needs to be weighed against the harm of the problem you are trying to solve.
Serial season 3 has had good discussion on minimum sentencing and judges who sentence based on whims, not on what's effective.
Always nice when law enforcement is a bigger problem than the problem they attempt to solve. Poor woman.
I sympathize with the feeling that law enforcement, the judiciary, political appointees, and elected officials should be punished more severely for breaking the corresponding laws that they pledge to uphold and/or enforce. However, I am not sure how anyone would get that sort of law passed besides a referendum.
My gynecologist is on this street. Flushing is a dark place. I grew up here. Some dark things that go on here on a regular basis: Exploitation of immigrants. Don't pay them at all and threaten to call ICE. A famous Korean restaurant Kum Gang San was forced to pay millions in a lawsuit for exploiting their foreign staff. They made their employees pick cabbage at a local farm on the weekend to make kimchi... https://ww…
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I sympathize with the feeling that law enforcement, the judiciary, political appointees, and elected officials should be punished more severely for breaking the corresponding laws that they pledge to uphold and/or enforce. However, I am not sure how anyone would get that sort of law passed besides a referendum.
It's a moral panic, not entirely unlike your urge to exact revenge from the political class.
An amazing story, so rare to see the effort put into finding the human behind what would otherwise be a nameless tragedy. There's a good interview with the Dan Barry, the lead reporter, about why he was interested in investigating this story: https://www.poynter.org/news/interview-dan-barry-writer-nyts... > I had finished a long-form piece last November called “The Lost Children of Tuam,” and was looking for the next…
Although her story was an abject tragedy, it's inspiring to hear about this writer's urge to humanize her and tell the story of the downtrodden. We need to see more of this compassionate attitude in all aspects of life.
I’m sorry, if you’re not arresting the Johns and the pimps, or you’re putting undercover officers down to catch individual prostitutes, then why would you /ever/ expect help?
It’s why things like any politician who favors tougher sex laws that functionally only punish the prostitute is very simply supporting and enabling pimps, pedofiles, and traffickers. Anything that makes it harder for a prostitute to go to the police is very simply enabling the abusers.
Queens, unlike more popular boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn, is diverse and middle class (more diverse may be apt).
Flushing, particularly is all-the-world-in-one-place, and largely immigrant and per-capita is on the lower side of NYC (about 1/3rd of that of a Manhattanite, who lives 10kms away) . Purportedly, about 800 languages are spoken in Queens.
https://www.businessinsider.in/Queens-has-more-languages-tha...