I can just picture your neckbeard twitching in front of your MacBook furiously typing away thinking you just banged out a sick burn.

So you're going to cite data, until it doesn't agree with you, then it's a conspiracy lollllll

You're clinging so hard to your beliefs that you refuse to consider a possibility you are interpreting data wrong. If you want to isolate the index crime arrest rate going down since 2001, the statistic is meaningless without comparing it to the decline of actual reported index crimes in the same city during the same 20-year period.

Where in the world are you talking about? You've heard every big city politician and district attorney use the word decriminalization. What do you think that means?

You realize the arrest rates declined because of a change of political environment and legalization of marijuana and other low level stuff? Or did you think you were going to get away with posting a pretty little chart as if it made some kind of point?

Maybe the complete violence and mayhem that befalled the city in the second half of 2020 didn't make it to the news where you were, but shooting rates skyrocketed as he was making that announcement.

"rikers has the fewest amount of people since WW2 and we are safer for it!" - the prior mayor in 2020

Somebody posted here yesterday that cops went on strike in 2014 but crime went down anyway. Now people are saying they're on strike and crime is up. I can't wrap my head around all these crazy theories!

And so many on this sub praised him with his daily masturbation session press conferences

I would have given you an honest response but your bizarre attempt at an insult isn't doing much for me. One day you'll realize your movement has good intentions but completely jumped the shark to the average person. Maybe stop trying to cut the genitals off every 10 year old boy who plays with dolls and people will take you seriously.

> we challenge kids on assumptions of Gender and racial equity and history.

Are you elite Park Slope pearl-clutchers showing all sides of this argument, or just shoving the latest transfad books down kids throats?

I don't know who the nutjob in this article is, however as a parent I don't have a problem with certain clearly inappropriate books not being in school libraries.

Next time BPL is asking for more public funds, keep in mind they're spending money on things that have zero relevancy to Brooklynites.