NY police commissioner wants 450 more cops to fight against jihadis by Robert Spencer.
OK, not exactly what Police Commissioner Bratton said but it may as well be.
Bratton is quoted in the post as saying:
As the fear over the threat of terrorism continues to swell around the world, New York City becomes increasingly on edge that it’s time to take extra security precautions.
Although we have not experienced the caliber such as the attacks in Paris, we have a history of being a major target and ISIS has already begun to infiltrate young minds through the use of video games and social media.
Since the New Year there have been numerous arrests in Brooklyn and Queens for people attempting to assist ISIS from afar, building homemade bombs and laying out plans of attack.
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This is called no-evidence police policy.
Particularly when you examine the “facts” behind:
…numerous arrests in Brooklyn and Queens for people attempting to assist ISIS from afar, building homemade bombs and laying out plans of attack.
Queens? Oh, yes, the two women from Queens who an FBI informant befriended by finding a copy of the Anarchist Cookbook online and printing it out for them. Not to mention taking one of them shopping for bomb components. The alleged terrorists were going to educate themselves on bomb making. More a threat to themselves than anyone else. e451 and Senator Dianne Feinstein The focus of that post is on the Anarchist Cookbook but you can get the drift of how silly the compliant was in fact.
As far as Brooklyn, you can read the complaint for yourself but the gist of it was one of the three defendants could not travel because his mother would not give him his passport. Serious terrorist people we are dealing with here. The other two were terrorist wannabe’s who long on boosting skills but there isn’t a shortage of boosters in ISIS. Had they been able to connect with ISIS by some happenstance, it would have degraded the operational capabilities of ISIS, not assisted it.
A recent estimate for the Muslim population of New York puts the total number of Muslims at 600,000. 175 Mosques in New York City and counting. Muslims in New York City, Part II [2010]
The FBI was able to assist and prompt five (5) people out of an estimated 600,000 into making boosts about assisting ISIS and/or traveling to join ISIS.
I won’t even both doing the math. Anyone who is looking for facts will know that five (5) arrests in a city of 12 million people, doesn’t qualify as “numerous.” Especially when those arrests were for thought crimes and amateurish boosting more than any attempt at an actual crime.
Support more cops to hunt Unicorns. Unicorn hunting doesn’t require military tactics or weapons, thereby making the civilian population safer.