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He's just an angry person. He truly is. I have thrown him bones on here before and have defended him, yet I have caught him several times recently making backhanded personal remarks regarding me that he thinly-veiled (i.e. "Sort of like living in a bad neighborhood and doing nothing about it..."). Meanwhile he doesn't know what it's like to live in a neighborhood where "snitches get stitches" because he's affluent. If he snitched on his neighbor in Cranberry for dealing weed he wouldn't have to worry about anything. If I snitched on my neighbor in Marshall-Shadeland for dealing heroin/fentanyl I would instantly become a target of all the bullets I hear being shot on a weekly basis in the surrounding blocks, and I'm actually intelligent enough to know that the Pittsburgh Police are currently too shorthanded to beef up patrols in Marshall-Shadeland to a meaningful level to make me feel safe IF I were to snitch, like erieguy wants me to.
Always love the assumptions….and there’s no backhand or personal attacks. By your own admission you live in a lousy area, and you aren’t doing anything about the criminals, though you claim to work for the Pittsburgh police.
Not doing anything to fix a problem is enabling it to happen. If you’re not going to do anything to help the situation, why do you keep saying something needs done?
Folks continuing to vote for weak and soft on crime powers that be reap what they sow, and that’s what’s happening and will continue to happen.
He's just an angry person. He truly is. I have thrown him bones on here before and have defended him, yet I have caught him several times recently making backhanded personal remarks regarding me that he thinly-veiled (i.e. "Sort of like living in a bad neighborhood and doing nothing about it..."). Meanwhile he doesn't know what it's like to live in a neighborhood where "snitches get stitches" because he's affluent. If he snitched on his neighbor in Cranberry for dealing weed he wouldn't have to worry about anything. If I snitched on my neighbor in Marshall-Shadeland for dealing heroin/fentanyl I would instantly become a target of all the bullets I hear being shot on a weekly basis in the surrounding blocks, and I'm actually intelligent enough to know that the Pittsburgh Police are currently too shorthanded to beef up patrols in Marshall-Shadeland to a meaningful level to make me feel safe IF I were to snitch, like erieguy wants me to.
I do not think he is affluent. I think he may be one generation removed from trash. All of Cranberry is not affluent....For all we know he could live in Jeanette or Baden.
Either way it has to be a miserable life. He should just move to Florida and stop pretending that he lives there part time. He is obsessed with Florida but spends his time here in misery....
Always love the assumptions….and there’s no backhand or personal attacks. By your own admission you live in a lousy area, and you aren’t doing anything about the criminals, though you claim to work for the Pittsburgh police.
Not doing anything to fix a problem is enabling it to happen. If you’re not going to do anything to help the situation, why do you keep saying something needs done?
Folks continuing to vote for weak and soft on crime powers that be reap what they sow, and that’s what’s happening and will continue to happen.
Challenging a woman's right to choose keeps people down. Lying about the election kept republicans down. Republicans have not and will not do anything to combat crime. These so called republican saviors are so disconnected from anything inner city or urban......only a fool would trust them to resolve this issue or any issue for that matter. Republicans are still stuck on dealing with 2020 issues. It is almost 2023.....
Democrats are some of the biggest election deniers around. If abortion rights are so important to dems why didn't they do anything about it for 40 years? If you believe a politician has any connection with urban issue than you are out of touch. The Democrats pander the the urban areas but do they ever deliver on there promises? Have the wilkinsburg or homewoods gotten any better over the last 30 years? Did braddock show any improvement since fetterman showed up? They have shown up every 4 years with threats of republican oppression looking for votes but they are really the ones holding people back.
The truth is often unpopular. Keep blaming the police and defending and enabling criminals and the same results will happen and get worse…but muh Republicans
Democrats are some of the biggest election deniers around. If abortion rights are so important to dems why didn't they do anything about it for 40 years? If you believe a politician has any connection with urban issue than you are out of touch. The Democrats pander the the urban areas but do they ever deliver on there promises? Have the wilkinsburg or homewoods gotten any better over the last 30 years? Did braddock show any improvement since fetterman showed up? They have shown up every 4 years with threats of republican oppression looking for votes but they are really the ones holding people back.
Bingo….and let’s not forget the burn it down folks ruined some of those areas during the Pittsburgh riots and they’ve never and will never recover….yet folks still approve of such behavior today. Again, reaping what they sow.
Always love the assumptions….and there’s no backhand or personal attacks. By your own admission you live in a lousy area, and you aren’t doing anything about the criminals, though you claim to work for the Pittsburgh police.
Not doing anything to fix a problem is enabling it to happen. If you’re not going to do anything to help the situation, why do you keep saying something needs done?
Folks continuing to vote for weak and soft on crime powers that be reap what they sow, and that’s what’s happening and will continue to happen.
I do work for the Pittsburgh Police as a civilian analyst. It makes no difference because it's not like I am going to be given any preferential protection/treatment based upon my employment status if I started narcing on all of my neighbors. I have been the victim of crime before while living here and working where I work and still never received follow-up from a detective. I also know that the department staffing they keep releasing to the media of "~830 out of a budgeted 900" is grossly misleading because only maybe half of those officers are actually patrol/duty cops while the rest are detectives or some other sorts of specialists or are out on some sort of leave, etc. If I personally have concerns about police staffing levels in my neighborhood, and if I personally don't believe our new mayor is equipped to beef up the police appropriately, then why would I be the one to put my life at risk to narc?
"What needs done", I hate to say it, is mild gentrification, which I can't bring about because I'm not a real estate developer. My particular neighborhood has an immense concentration of Section 8 rentals, 3/4 "recovery homes", group homes, etc., and when you concentrate poverty into a small area like my neighborhood or Northview Heights or Homewood it tends to beget violence because people feel frustrated, angry, and helpless and turn to crime instead of getting a job for whatever reason to improve their situations. There is a big old school near me that could be converted to luxury apartments like many other historic old school buildings in this city. There is still a rental shortage in this city, so those units would lease to near full-occupancy if developed. A few dozen middle-class/upper-middle-class people moving right smack in the middle of the crime issues would deter crime in and of itself---more potential witnesses, more foot traffic to help boost neighborhood businesses, more people to help pick up litter (i.e. "broken windows theory"), more people to be blamed by the dealers for narcing/complaining to the cops other than the very few who actually seem to work regular jobs at present time, etc.
I do work for the Pittsburgh Police as a civilian analyst. It makes no difference because it's not like I am going to be given any preferential protection/treatment based upon my employment status if I started narcing on all of my neighbors. I have been the victim of crime before while living here and working where I work and still never received follow-up from a detective. I also know that the department staffing they keep releasing to the media of "~830 out of a budgeted 900" is grossly misleading because only maybe half of those officers are actually patrol/duty cops while the rest are detectives or some other sorts of specialists or are out on some sort of leave, etc. If I personally have concerns about police staffing levels in my neighborhood, and if I personally don't believe our new mayor is equipped to beef up the police appropriately, then why would I be the one to put my life at risk to narc?
"What needs done", I hate to say it, is mild gentrification, which I can't bring about because I'm not a real estate developer. My particular neighborhood has an immense concentration of Section 8 rentals, 3/4 "recovery homes", group homes, etc., and when you concentrate poverty into a small area like my neighborhood or Northview Heights or Homewood it tends to beget violence because people feel frustrated, angry, and helpless and turn to crime instead of getting a job for whatever reason to improve their situations. There is a big old school near me that could be converted to luxury apartments like many other historic old school buildings in this city. There is still a rental shortage in this city, so those units would lease to near full-occupancy if developed. A few dozen middle-class/upper-middle-class people moving right smack in the middle of the crime issues would deter crime in and of itself---more potential witnesses, more foot traffic to help boost neighborhood businesses, more people to help pick up litter (i.e. "broken windows theory"), more people to be blamed by the dealers for narcing/complaining to the cops other than the very few who actually seem to work regular jobs at present time, etc.
So you’ll keep voting for a Dem run city/county/state, aren’t going to do anything to help get the criminals off the streets, will keep complaining about the crime and the criminals, say something needs done, etc…, but won’t do anything yourself while watching skyrocketing violent crime continue to rise?
So you’ll keep voting for a Dem run city, aren’t going to do anything to help get the criminals off the streets, will keep complaining about the crime, criminals, blame the mayor, saying something needs done, etc…, while watching skyrocketing violent crime continue to rise?
I didn't vote for Gainey because I am not in favor of defunding the police. I also didn't vote for Moreno because he seemed like a moron whenever he spoke about his plans for the city. He literally said the problem with Downtown was "not enough parking" when there is SO much parking currently, that the garage I park in for work seems to always be far less than <50% occupied.
I voted for Peduto, who somehow managed to get the police to think he was too anti-police and the public to think he was too pro-police, which is why he didn't get re-elected. He beefed up police staffing and spending under his watch, yet the police didn't think that was good enough. He also chastised officers when they were worthy of punishment, but the public didn't think that was good enough. All people focused on were the facts that he liked bike lanes and was pompous/elitist.
I'm sorry, but so far I see no reason to think Mayor Gainey is awesome. He's done very little (to be fair good OR bad) in his first year in office. I will reserve judgment for the time being, but I have a feeling the only ones who think he's "awesome" only feel that way because of the color of his skin. I am unimpressed that even with having both a Deputy Mayor and Chief of Staff to help him out along with a ton of advisors (Peduto only had a Chief of Staff) somehow the city seems to be heading in the wrong direction, especially the North Side where the gunfire has been incessant this year. Of course wpipkins, who lives in a nice quiet middle-class part of East Hills with great neighbors or Eschaton, who lives in the generally nice neighborhood of Morningside, will disagree with me, but I am worried about how the city has been faring over the past year. There are about 40,000 people on the North Side, and most of us are on edge right now. They can't even give away move-in-ready homes for $50,000 right now in my neighborhood. The old-timer yinzers by me say that it feels like the '90's here again.
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