Yoda said:
I'm a new guy here, but I thought I'd add my two cents.
The primary response seems to be to resist and make more trouble for the police than they can endure.
Very nice idea. It sounds good but, probably won't work.
I would suggest that the powers who are manipulating NY city are themselves simply creating havoc amongst their people.
Most people who have an illegal weapon are keeping it very secure. If they are waving their gun around for their neighbors to see are probably a bit off in their heads anyway.
The New York politicians are crafty bastards (sorry I don't mean any disrespect to bastards).
They don't intend to follow up on more than a few high profile cases in the early campaign.
They simply seek to create distrust and amongst their citizens and make a show of Doing Something to buy cheap votes.
Yoda, the context here is that this was adverstised extensively in UPSTATE New York. Not the crime ridden urban ghettos of NYC.
I see this snitch program as a direct reaction to the open defiance to the draconian NY "SAFE" Act. Gov Cuomo has shown a complete unwillingness to back down or modify his signature law that he rammed through literally at midnight. Faced with mass non-compliance including refusal to comply from a majority of sheriffs, 51/62 counties, and tens of thousands (or more) of defiant citizens he has to either nut up or shut up. The snitch program is a way to bludgeon the upstate -- which is the heart of opposition -- into compliance with threats.
Realize that when you suggest burying "illegal weapons" you're basically talking about hiding any sort of semiautomatic magazine fed firearm. That is how draconian SAFE is. Many New Yorkers in the upstate have already said that they will not comply.
Using the opponent's own rules against them is a very effective tactic. Think about it:
Every call to the call center costs the state something (its a toll free number, right)?
Every tip to the call center must be processed by a worker and presumably put into a database.
Enough tips and some will get exploited/fused with other information & databased, which also costs resources. Some will actually be investigated, again drawing resources away from our brothers and sisters in the upstate.
If the tips are acted on, it will result in terrible PR for Gov Cuomo's goon squads when they shoot the wrong dog and prone out innocent legislative staffers, police officer's wives, or liberal journalists.
If the tips are ignored due to too much chaff in the system, then the snitch system becomes useless for enforcing the law against our brothers and sisters.
Yoda said:
New Yorkers are smarter than this, but the population is so thoroughly saturated with weak minded accomplices who will do whatever they are lead to do on behalf of their masters. Silly fools think they'll own the world some day, but they're just being used.
I've been to New York, those people, for the most part are so involved in their own lives they probably won't give this new law a second thought.
Upstate NYS is
very different from "the city" and downstate. Upstate NYS has said that it will not comply. While I have hope that the courts will rectify some of the situation civil disobedience -- which is what Cuomo is trying to stamp out with the stasi-like snitch program -- is the next logical step.
