>Its about the where and why its being reported

It is reported in a local paper (where) because it is a newsworthy event (why).

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>Its not about this woman who was murdered, its a hammer on a wedge, that creates anxiety, anger, hatred, and fear.

Hatred, anger, anxiety, and fear is what shelter residents experience when there is a shelter murder.

That isn't because of The Post reporting on the story. It is because someone got murdered.

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>The Post is USING this woman to sell crap. And that to me is despicable.

Do you think The Post is the only paper that uses stories "to sell crap"?

Do you also find it "despicable" when papers like Gothamist, NYDN, NYT, WaPo, etc. use stories to sell crap and push agendas? Or is it selective outrage?

Because buddy, this is hardly exclusive to a single NYC tabloid. It is the lifeblood of American media.

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>Notice the caustic tone over at The Post?

How does The Post's story have a "caustic tone"?

The entire article is 6 sentences long, and written in the style of a news wire where it just provides the basic, relevant details of the story.

It doesn't sensationalize anything and there is zero commentary in the article.

Quote the part of the article you find "caustic".

Sometimes, the care they need is the housing, education, and shelter provided by extended inpatient treatment.

A murder in a homeless shelter is objectively newsworthy, esp. since it overlaps the issues of homelessness, the shelter crisis, and violent crime in this city.

Murders in NYC are routinely covered by every local news outlet in the city.

Why is it suddenly not newsworthy if a murder occurs at a homeless shelter?

Private security (either a contractor or off-duty NYPD) is very expensive, especially when you're talking about hiring a contractor for a high-risk detail like a homeless shelter.

Any attempt at NYPD presence in a formal capacity at these shelters is always met with aggressive activist pushback, so official shelter patrols aren't going to happen anytime soon.

You could increase unarmed security or boost staff, both of which costs money and who would just end up calling NYPD if/when shit gets violent.

And if she gets primaried, the developer can just restart the proposal process again to get the lot re-zoned, and he could even do so by offering more favorable terms for himself (AKA not 1/2 affordable units).

The developer owns a luxury real estate firm, so in all likelihood revenue from a truck dept in Harlem isn't even a rounding error in his overall portfolio.

On the flipside, a predominantly-Black Harlem neighborhood is going to have to deal with more noise, more pollution, and more traffic, to "own the rich".

And that isn't my assessment. It is what Harlem-based environmental justice group WE Act has said.

The One45 development would have included 917 units (1/2 affordable housing-- well above city minimum), retail spaces, and even a civil rights museum. The proposal also called for the dev. to finance and build a whole new playground.

Now the neighborhood doesn't get any of that, and instead gets a bunch of traffic and pollution.

Who's "owning" who here?

This guy is probably too stupid to ditch the sign or the little bike trailer, so he'll likely be caught sooner than later.

The One45 proposal was incredibly generous when it came to affordable housing allocation, and seeing Richardson Jordan burn it all to the ground in some deluded NIMBY rage, to the detriment of her own community, was quite something.

That doesn't refute anything I said, which is the factual statement that Holmes used a defense strategy of pretending to be a victim manipulated by her ex.

I never claimed such a stupid strategy would actually work, just that it is a predictable one.

>likely has a couple cold storage wallets for the future

Same with SBF.

With the way these people were purposely (and admittedly) misusing billions in other people's money, it isn't hard to imagine the top players stashed some of it aside.

It isn't sexist to point out that this is a realistic defense strategy scenario should Ellison be indicted.

For one, we just saw literally the same strategy used by Elizabeth Holmes in one of the most high-profile fraud trials in recent history.

Secondly, that is basically the only defense Ellison would have, short of claiming complete and total ignorance (which wouldn't legally absolve her of guilt or blame).

Same shit happened in the Theranos trial.

The all-powerful "girl boss" claimed she was in over her head and manipulated by her former boyfriend/company president.

That didn't save Elizabeth Holmes.

Every now and then I read some story about hosts who took out mortgages on properties to solely use as an Airnbnb and how some new proposed legislation would fuck them and all I can do is laugh, and laugh, and laugh.

>If you're good with credit cards and Google, you can get so many good deals on hotels and flights.

This is why I never got into the Airbnb fad.

Between credit card points and direct incentive programs from hotels, you can get some great deals and savings, esp. if you travel somewhat regularly.

Fuck Airbnb.

Like other "disruptor" startups, what was conceived as a decent idea on-paper (rent out your spare room on occasion for some beer money) has turned into a predatory, largely unregulated industry of illegal hotels that makes the housing crisis worse and exists in a game of perpetual cat-and-mouse with regulators.

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, because this is the likely outcome if this asshole gets caught.

Unless the DA pursued hate crime charges (which would be interesting, since most violent attacks against Asians in NYC, which are almost all much more serious than this, do not get the hate crime enhancement + political views are not a protected class in NY), this is a misdemeanor offense which wouldn't even be eligible for bail.

And if he has a clean record, likely pleads down to a no-jail agreement.

>Some of the Chinese school clubs got broken up at Columbia years back because the Chinese gov’t had effectively taken control of them and were using them to try to exert control on Chinese students.

Good on Columbia.

That is basically what Confucius Institutes have become on college campuses across the country

>When they assault people they are arrested charged and sentenced appropriately.

Not really.

The psycho who murdered Christina Lee violently assaulted a subway commuter a few months before killing her, and was just given a court appearance and allowed to remain free even though he was a clear danger to public safety.

Apparently the crime of license plate obstruction is worthy of its own thread, but stories involving murder are relegated here.

So stories of violent crime have to be posted here, but blurry photos of license plate obstructions are fine to be posted as standalone threads?

I like the megathread idea in general since we don't need a new thread every time the Post publishes a story about some junkie stealing a garbage bag full of deodorant from Duane Reade, but there needs to be a clear standard for what goes here and what gets its own thread.

>helps contain some of the clear brigading that happens overall.

What is your standard for what is and isn't brigading?

This has become a lazy, catch-all on Reddit that people use to complain about posts they disagree with.

If you think threads about subway shovings being very popular is because of "brigading" and not because most of us ride the trains almost every day, I don't know what to tell you.

Yeah, when people said they wanted more cops in the subways, I don't think they meant groups of 3 NYPD hanging out by the entrance looking for turnstile jumpers.

>It’s clear that people were using the posts to push a narrative.

You can say the same thing about the many posts downplaying crime, along with most of the political posts.

>It is my personal opinion that if you encounter a crying person on the train, your sole responsibility as a New Yorker is to do something sort of psycho in their general vicinity in order to compound the weepers’ sorrow and make a great story later on

LMAO