An out and out communist with great sympathy for the downtrodden criminals is elected mayor. He changes law enforcement to favor the violent and he gets more crime and violence. There must be a clue in there somewhere.
Lenin, Marx and even Stalin viewed the “criminal class” as their shocktroops/cannon fodder foot soldiers. They felt that those with the least to lose would be willing to fight to get more.
The late (and later Communist Party member), W.E.B. DuBois wrote in “Liberator” magazine in the 1930’s, that the Communists were looking to use the black people as “cannon fodder” and told his people NOT TO JOIN the CPUSA.
This was later proven when the CPUSA took over the Scottboro Boys trial defense from a legitimate attorney Sam Leibowitz (see the new PROLOGUE issue of the National Archives for a good story on them).
The CPUSA used the trial as a fundraising issue for the Party, later abandoning the defendants when they no longer served the Party’s purpose.
DeBlasio is a communist. He knows how to play the game and is doing it, and many New Yorkers keep falling for it.
Stupid is as stupid does.