Posted on 06/23/2021 6:08:25 PM PDT by Rummyfan
So if Eric Adams avoids a ranked-choice reversal, hangs on to his primary day lead and becomes mayor Jan. 1, he won’t be able to do anything about violent crime anyway.
According to a growing lefty orthodoxy, nope. Not a chance. Crime is simply beyond the control of mayors — because, you know, guns or something. Plus root causes. Don’t forget them.
Of course, this is pernicious nonsense — ahistorical, counter-intuitive and patronizing in the extreme. You’d have to be a moron to believe it — but the line has utility to those who hate vigorous law enforcement; to failures who are desperate for excuses and to politicians who lack the guts to buck the orthodoxy.
Pick which category applies to Mayor de Blasio, but it remains that the fellow who canceled the specific policies that made New York safe a generation ago, sparking the city’s current gun-crime rampage, now says it’s not his problem. No, indeed; he blames Albany’s imbecilic 2019 criminal justice “reforms” — although this epiphany is quite recent.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Defunding the police and not supporting them politically? No effect on crime rates....
Decriminalizing many former felonies? No effect on crime rates...
It must be guns!
Can we finally go Paul Kersey on the criminals?
As if Mayors in the past haven’t done something about Crime.
Ask Giuliani what he did with organized crime.
Lazy worthless mayors.
Thank You King Barry
The problem is clearly systematic anti-Marxism.
Who the hell cares if all these gang banging drug dealing thugs continue to Kill themselves? I DON’T, Hell we should exploit it, turn it into a Game Show and have Live Betting Lines to bet on which Democrat City will have the most murders on the weekend.
Why aren’t they talking to the Republican mayors? They don’t seem to have an issue.
I know! They can take a page from Dementia Joe and *nuke* the high-crime areas. That’ll learn ‘em! /sarc>
It’ll always be between Chicago and Baltimore.
They will find a way when its one of their family members...
I think that day is coming. What the criminals don't realize is that the police are there to protect them from an enraged populace.
That will happen organically. Human nature.
If you have a fire you try to contain it BEFORE it gets out of hand and spreads.
The Politicians ignored the murder rate and allowed it to get out of hand. Now they don’t know how to contain it.
Like a fire, it will spread.
Exactly.
Kind of like when Obunghole said that the companies/jobs will never come back to the USA...
Gee, I guess we’d better federalize the police and give each mayor a federal mentor.
It’s all a ploy to nationalize police.
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