Comments on: Ras Baraka, ICE, New Jersey, and dear old dad https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/10/ras-baraka-ice-new-jersey-and-dear-old-dad/ A blog about political change, among other things Wed, 14 May 2025 13:24:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Cappy https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/10/ras-baraka-ice-new-jersey-and-dear-old-dad/#comment-2801971 Wed, 14 May 2025 13:24:35 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141675#comment-2801971 Do he bite?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEnmjDD_fTE

]]> By: Snow on Pine https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/10/ras-baraka-ice-new-jersey-and-dear-old-dad/#comment-2801631 Sun, 11 May 2025 21:30:26 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141675#comment-2801631 RE: Policy formation and statistics

As I have pointed out in prior posts, one of the ways to make it difficult to gain an understanding of the dimensions and level of seriousness of a problem, and/or to avoid having to take note and deal with it, is to just not collect, report, or make readily available/findable statistics on that problem.

Well, here is a major instance of this technique in action.

Thus, the linked report says that far too many cities do not report their crime statistics to the FBI for, among other uses, inclusion in their Uniform Crime Statistics series which, I’d imagine, is used by policy makers.*

* See https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/incomplete-data-one-third-of-american-cities-no-longer-report-crime-statistics-to-the-fbi/

]]> By: Kate https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/10/ras-baraka-ice-new-jersey-and-dear-old-dad/#comment-2801628 Sun, 11 May 2025 20:37:28 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141675#comment-2801628 Rep. McIver avers that the incriminating images are “manufactured.” She also said, on video, that she’s entitled to touch anyone she wants to, calling the federal agent an ugly name.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/10/ras-baraka-ice-new-jersey-and-dear-old-dad/#comment-2801626 Sun, 11 May 2025 20:22:29 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141675#comment-2801626 Bombshell Body Cam Footage Has House Democrats Facing Potential Arrest for Assault

A trio of New Jersey Democrats in the U.S. House may soon find themselves in handcuffs after their so-called “oversight visit” to an ICE detention center that got very insurrection-y on Friday. According to the Department of Homeland Security, the incident—which reportedly involved physical altercations with federal agents—could lead to arrests.

Representatives LaMonica McIver, Bonnie Watson Coleman, and Rob Menendez, accompanied by Newark’s far-left Mayor Ras Baraka, allegedly stormed the Delaney Hall Detention Center unannounced. Baraka was arrested on the spot and charged with trespassing. Things escalated quickly, with DHS officials confirming that at least one ICE agent was assaulted during the confrontation—an incident that was captured on body cam footage.

https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/05/11/democrats-could-face-arrest-after-body-cam-bombshell-exposes-assault-n4939675
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Bring it on!

No one is above the law.

Six words no Democrat will speak for the next four years.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/10/ras-baraka-ice-new-jersey-and-dear-old-dad/#comment-2801616 Sun, 11 May 2025 18:50:36 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141675#comment-2801616 Not only can the “Left” not stop, they’re committing the greatest sin of all, they’ve become predictably boring.

Sennacherib:

As Critical Drinker puts it, the worst sin Hollywood commits these days isn’t provoking hatred, but apathy.

]]> By: Sennacherib https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/10/ras-baraka-ice-new-jersey-and-dear-old-dad/#comment-2801613 Sun, 11 May 2025 18:17:27 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141675#comment-2801613 Not only can the “Left” not stop, they’re committing the greatest sin of all, they’ve become predictably boring.

]]> By: Owie https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/10/ras-baraka-ice-new-jersey-and-dear-old-dad/#comment-2801610 Sun, 11 May 2025 18:08:22 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141675#comment-2801610 Bet you didn’t know that Ras has two Jewish sisters. Amiru’s first wife, the long-suffering Hetty Cohen, produced them during their unfortunate marriage when he was still good old Leroy, whose avocation was fucking bleeding heart liberal Jewish women in the west (Greenwich) village.

]]> By: Sennacherib https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/10/ras-baraka-ice-new-jersey-and-dear-old-dad/#comment-2801609 Sun, 11 May 2025 18:07:19 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141675#comment-2801609 The “Left” cannot stop.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/10/ras-baraka-ice-new-jersey-and-dear-old-dad/#comment-2801572 Sun, 11 May 2025 10:36:04 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141675#comment-2801572 Fairly modest preferences about who you would prefer to have as a neighbor are a sufficient vector to generate a great deal of geographic segregation across a metropolitan landscape. This has been understood by urban geographers for 50 years. This is what happens when people are free to chose where to live. As long as you do not have cartelistic practices like restrictive covenants on real estate, government provision of ordinary rental housing, government provision of mortgage insurance, or a government run secondary mortgage market, neighborhood segregation per se should not interest policy-makers. (In a free society, landlord-tenant transactions are subject to certain rubrics delineated in state law and local ordinance, but landlords have plenary discretion over to whom to rent and plenary discretion within the limits of what the traffic will bear over the rent to be charged over the duration of a lease. Likewise, property owners have plenary discretion over to whom to sell their property).
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What happened after 1945 was a prevalent refusal on the part of officialdom to suppress street crime and school disorder. State and local government needed to build the institutions and invest the manpower into this project and they did not. Certain other public policies have tended to promote decay in the built environment and decay in the quality of services delivered by public bodies. You’re not going to make slum neighborhoods as agreeable as handsome suburbs, but there’s a great deal of improvement to be had.

]]> By: Art Deco https://thenewneo.com/2025/05/10/ras-baraka-ice-new-jersey-and-dear-old-dad/#comment-2801541 Sun, 11 May 2025 03:07:31 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=141675#comment-2801541 I find it interesting that there’s been a noticeable decline in crime rates on his watch.

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