This is sick and the Mayor deserves plenty of blame for it. Little consolation to this baby. Get used to this folks - lot’s of moments of silence and blaming guns, but the feckless leaders who created and encouraged this environment will not address the elephant in the room.
We need the police to keep a lid on gang violence and criminals. Period. There is no alternative. You cannot fix this degree of criminality with social workers, midnight basketball, or any other fanciful alternative. It takes the police. Men and women willing to confront evil on behalf of their community. However, the mayor has pretty much labeled them as evil so he and others now have a real catch-22.
The answer is obvious and inevitable so the real question now is how many dead children will it take for NYC to say “enough”?
Without a police escort, you’re not going to get an ambulance or fire department when needed.