We're all watching from afar as New York City descends into chaos, crime, depravity and violence. It's not a pretty sight.
But the view from the city itself is even worse, if almost comically so. Case in point:
Early in the morning on August 3, Moose and his owner — Jessica Chrustic, 41 — were out on a walk when a homeless man who lives in the park gave chase. He hit them both with a large stick and threw a container of urine on Moose, while muttering about immigrants taking over the park. The dog died a few days later from internal injuries, after two emergency surgeries. The man who killed him is still at large.
A few weeks later, on August 20, Kristian Nammack issued a call to action on Nextdoor, a social media site for local organizing: "Do we want to organize a community safety patrol, and take our park back? Think what the Guardian Angels did to take back the subways in the 70s/early 80s. We may also get to wear cool berets. I'm being serious."
Well it didn't go over too well. You see, when citizens in New York decide they want to make their city a better place, clean it up a bit, deal with the violent homeless problem, etc., their social-justice neighbors pop out of the woodwork like:
A group of four who looked to be in their early twenties — three women and one man — rolled up about 15 minutes into the meeting. "Are y'all the Park Slope Panthers?" The one who asked was dragging a speaker on wheels and playing electronic music, presumably to drown out the meeting. "We are super not into you guys having your meeting or doing anything in the park."
The young activist — who was white, wore glasses, grew up in Park Slope, and had a medical-grade face mask on, like his three comrades — was also super not into the cops, or anything resembling the cops. When Nammack told him we were taking turns introducing ourselves, the activist informed Nammack that he wasn't "super into abiding by the structure that you're setting up."
New Yorkers when other New Yorkers say they want to stop homeless people from flinging urine around and beating dogs to death:
It's emphatically worth reading the whole thing, because it says a lot about where New York is and where it's going.
Here's one thing that actually happened but you wouldn't believe me unless I said so:
"Crime is an abstract term that means nothing in a lot of ways," said Sky. "The construct of crime has been so socially constructed to target black and poor people."
"Right, yeah, I agree with you!" countered one of the older folks, who seemed confused.
And here's the conclusion of the entire sad account:
In the meantime, Nammack met with two staffers at the office of his local council person, Shahana Hanif, about the dangerous homeless man with the stick. "They said their biggest concern is that the perpetrator is not arrested and sent to Rikers because they are concerned for his wellbeing!!!" he wrote in an email to the group.
Yeah... the local authorities are more worried about keeping the violent homeless people safe than the average citizen.
New York's in bad shape. If you're there, get out. If you're not, don't go.
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