New Yorker: on Crime
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:
Lower crime with violence-interruption programs, summer jobs
One of the ways that we engage is by backing some of the only policies that are actually supported by evidence to reduce incidents of violent crime: violence-interruption programs, summer youth employment. When we talk about the surge of violence
happening right now, when I engage with our hospitals, doctors, social workers, everyone's telling me that there's so many things we're not discussing. The surge in violence is being driven by young people, particularly young men.
Source: New Yorker on NY-14 2021 House incumbent, "An Insider?"
Feb 14, 2022
Mike Bloomberg:
Lock them up and throw away key, but no death penalty
On November 29, 2005, Mayor Bloomberg was asked about his views of the death penalty in the aftermath of the recent murder of an NYPD police officer. Mayor Bloomberg said, "I'd rather lock somebody up and throw away the key and put them in hard labor,
the ultimate penalty that the law will allow, but I'm opposed to the death penalty." Mayor Bloomberg has been steadfast in his opposition to the death penalty, speaking out against it many times in the past.
Source: New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty website
Dec 5, 2005
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:
JFK assassination and coverup with CIA involvement
Q: When you were a small child, your uncle, the President, was murdered in full view of the world. Five years later, your own father was murdered in full view of the world. Later, you came to see both of those assassinations as conspiracies with the
C.I.A. behind them. I want to know why you believe that when most do not?KENNEDY: Are you saying that most Americans do not believe President Kennedy's assassination was a conspiracy?
Q: I want to know why you believe it?
KENNEDY: I don't think
anybody who has looked at my uncle's murder seriously believes that the Warren Commission was correct. The C.I.A. was involved--not only in the original conspiracy but in the 60-year coverup--and continues to maintain the coverup.
Q: What was the
C.I.A.'s motivation?
KENNEDY: They were angry at my uncle. Their initial anger came when he failed to invade the Bay of Pigs and provide air cover for [Cuban opponents of Fidel Castro], which they consider a betrayal. [The CIA] had trained those men.
Source: The New Yorker magazine on 2023 Presidential hopefuls
Jul 7, 2023
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