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New York City Shootings and the Case for Cutting Police Funding
from #208 - Let's Have A Party | The Tim Dillon Show · #208
5 min
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Tim runs through statistics on a violent shooting weekend in NYC and rising crime after police funding cuts, tying it to pandemic unemployment and evictions in New York State.
- New York City is descending into a hellscape, with cutting police funding proving to be essentially a bad idea.
- 64 people were shot in New York City over one violent weekend, surpassing 400 shootings in the first half of the year for the first time since 2016.
- June 2020 saw 205 shootings, the highest for that month since 1996—racing back twenty years of progress.
- The economy is in its worst place, with joblessness devastating and unemployment reflecting economic collapse.
- New York State had 15 percent unemployment in May and April, with New York City at 18 percent—a major problem.
- A wave of evictions is coming; potentially 28 million Americans face homelessness if something isn't done to freeze evictions or provide universal basic income.
- Ten million people lost their homes in the Great Recession, and this eviction crisis could be almost triple that.
- Ben's job as producer is to anticipate what Tim will do next, but he loses interest and jumps ahead like he's on a golf course instead of staying locked in.
- Jamie Vernon is the standard for podcast producers and never gets it wrong, staying quick and attentive the way this situation requires.
- Ben needs to always focus and be at the top of his game because they could be targeted at any minute.
- Transition to discussing the eviction crisis brought on by the pandemic.