DOJ Designates New York City as an “Anarchist Jurisdiction”

[dead0man]

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New York City is one of three places that "have permitted violence and destruction of property to persist and have refused to undertake reasonable measures to counteract criminal activities," leading to its designation as an "anarchist jurisdiction," the Justice Department said Monday.

Rather than idle words, the designation has potential financial consequences. President Trump issued a memo earlier this month directing the DOJ to identify jurisdictions that, in its view, were not enforcing the law appropriately. Designated cities could lose their federal funding.

Trump's order gives the director of the Office of Management and Budget 30 days to issue guidance to federal agencies on restricting eligibility for federal grants for the cities on the DOJ list. Such grants make up a huge portion of NYC's already strapped annual budget -- more than $7 billion in fiscal 2021 alone, or 7.5% of the city's projected total revenue.

In justifying its decision, the DOJ cited New York City's rising gun violence, cuts to the NYPD's budget, and moves by various district attorneys not to prosecute charges related to protests earlier this summer.

[Tokugawa Sexgod Ieyasu]

ok falangist (Barr not you, dead0)

[Lexii]

We should inform de Blasio about this, I'm sure he'll be as shocked as everyone else

Those sneaky anarchist jurisdictionists

[PSOL]

lol, there is more effort in rooting this out by the current administration than stopping a worldwide pandemic claiming the lives of 200,000+ lives here.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Efforts should always be made to stop violence in our streets.  This ESPECIALLY applies to political violence, whose goal is to intimidate ordinary citizens.

[Tokugawa Sexgod Ieyasu]

Efforts should always be made to stop violence in our streets.  This ESPECIALLY applies to political violence, whose goal is to intimidate ordinary citizens.

How exactly does using neologistic buzzwords like "anarchist jurisdiction" stop violence in the streets, Fuzzy?

[Silent Hunter]

That might have made sense in the 1970s and 1980s, but not now.

[Silent Hunter]

That might have made sense in the 1970s and 1980s, but not now.

[You are responsible]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuyWkNK0-yo&t=43s

Where's Snake Plissken when you need him??

[Pyro]

Ah, yes. The city with a multi-billion dollar, legally immune police force. Classic anarchism.

[TJ in Oregon]

Question: What does this designation actually do?

[You are responsible]

Question: What does this designation actually do?

Maybe the cutting of federal funding:

The Department of Justice on Monday released a list of cities it has deemed "anarchist jurisdictions" under President Donald Trump's instructions earlier this month to review federal funding to local governments in places where violence or vandalism has occurred during protests.

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Barr said in a statement accompanying the DOJ's announcement, "We cannot allow federal tax dollars to be wasted when the safety of the citizenry hangs in the balance. It is my hope that the cities identified by the Department of Justice today will reverse course and become serious about performing the basic function of government and start protecting their own citizens."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-dept-deems-new-york-city-portland-seattle-anarchist-jurisdictions-n1240600

[Senator Sirius]

If the federal government stops funding NYC then NYC should stop funding the federal government. It'd be a net loss. I doubt this is legally possible though (assuming the law isn't totally ripped up).

[PSOL]

That might have made sense in the 1970s and 1980s, but not now.

By this point all the Anarchists in NYC moved to Vermont and the Pacific coastal areas and college towns were beginning to eclipse previous hotbeds in NYC and the Midwest. Even then, Anarchism was already more dead than Disco then as Hoxhaism, Maoism, and oddly non-ideological revolutionary vibes was all the rage— what with the Black Panther Party, New Communist Movement, and Weather Underground was all the rage.

[Jumped off the American Sinking Ship]

TRUMP TO CITY: DROP DEAD