FreightProgram t1_izo76oo wrote on December 10, 2022 at 4:15 PM

Reply to comment by Nouseforaname4 in NYC public libraries say proposed budget cuts may 'push us over the edge' by King-of-New-York

This is a crock of shit. Statistics overwhelmingly show that removing fines results in more books being returned.

Chicago saw 240% increase in return rate only 3 weeks after removing the fines. https://www.npr.org/2019/11/30/781374759/we-wanted-our-patrons-back-public-libraries-scrap-late-fines-to-alleviate-inequi

NYC saw almost 100k more overdue books and other items returned in a single year. Some overdue by decades. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/nyregion/nyc-library-fines-books-returned.html

Removing fines also increased traffic to the libraries and greatly benefited low income families

FreightProgram t1_ir860kx wrote on October 6, 2022 at 1:14 AM

Reply to comment by JohnnyWall in My thoughts after walking 8.5 miles down Roosevelt Ave and Greenpoint Ave through Queens by iFlunkedChemistry

Can you count, suckas? I say, the future is ours... if you can count! Now, look what we have here before us. We got the Saracens sitting next to the Jones Street Boys. We've got the Moonrunners right by the Van Cortlandt Rangers. Nobody is wasting nobody. That... is a miracle. And miracles is the way things ought to be. You're standing right now with nine delegates from 100 gangs. And there's over a hundred more. That's 20,000 hardcore members. Forty-thousand, counting affiliates, and twenty-thousand more, not organized, but ready to fight: 60,000 soldiers! Now, there ain't but 20,000 police in the whole town. Can you dig it?

CAN YOU DIG IT?!

Great movie.