I remember NYC in the 70s. Hard to believe anyone thinks that an “anything goes” policy is good sense. But these are Liberals, so they’re not focused on any practical outcome. It’s all about how it makes them feel about themselves.
My first experience in NYC was in 1973. A friend from grad school at North Carolina drove me up up to NYC to visit some friends from college. I asked him to go through Harlem. It was a war zone. Burned out cars, broken windows, trash everywhere. Having grown up in a southern Wisconsin farm town it was a place I could not understand.