30 years ago these low level arrests would have NEVER been made in the first place. It is all about Revenue, nothing else. But that was before the transformation from “Peace Officer” to “Law Enforcement Officer”
Massive difference between a genuine peace officer and the current law enforcement officer. Massive difference.
You are exactly correct. And power. Giuliani was power mad. I truly feared him.
True. That's why overall crime was way up. But when the "Broken Window Theory" was implemented in New York, crime went way down.
You're wrong. 30 years ago in NYC under Mayor Dinkins, if you stopped for a traffic light, the 'squeegee men' would squat crap on you windshield and demand money to clean it off.
Punks were jumping turnstiles in the subway never paying a fare.
Drunks, druggies and hookers pissed on the sidewalks where ever the hell pleased. The cops, under orders, ignored most of those 'minor crimes.'
And incidentally, thousands died from murder every year.
NYC was a terrible place to live.
Then Rudy took over and used the broken windows philosophy. He had the cops take down the squeegee men. He ordered them to take down the turnstile jumpers. He ordered them to crack down on the sidewalk pissers and prostitutes. And guess what. A very high percent of those arrested for those so called 'minor' offenses were carrying illegal firearms and/or had outstanding warrants for serious crimes including murder.
Rudy got the human trash off the streets and the city cleaned up very quickly and became the safest big city in the country.
Now Bill The Red wants to take it back into the dark ages of Mayor Dinkins, who he used to work for.