Last year Mayor de Blasio foolishly cut $1 Billion from the police, pandering to the rioting Defund the police protesters. Crime rates, of course, rose and this year they already have stats showing significant increases and we are only about four months into the year. So you’d think the city council would think to refund the police. But that would make sense. They are instead looking to reform the police further…
“As of March 21, compared with last year, the NYPD has reported eight more homicides (a 12 percent increase) and 63 more shooting incidents (a 40 percent increase) that wounded 69 more people (a 39 percent increase).”
So to combat the skyrocketing crime rates the city is going to reform the police…
“…the council’s new package of police “reforms,” which comes atop the measures passed last summer by the council and state lawmakers. It includes bills that will make police-work even costlier by, among other things, increasing the risk that officers will be held personally liable in lawsuits; prohibiting officers from living in the city’s lower-cost suburbs (making it likelier that they will cross paths while off the job with those whom they’ve arrested); and taking officer discipline out of the police commissioner’s hands, turning those decisions over to a civilian board.
The council’s package contained not a single measure that could conceivably bring shootings and homicides back down. Rather than draw on the successes of the 1990s and early 2000s, leaders have decided that now is the time to embrace even more reform for reform’s sake: to “reimagine” how the Big Apple approaches safety.”
How bad does crime have to get for New Yorkers to realize how essential police are? They cut police funding and are now seeing skyrocketing crime. The easy answer would be to simply refund the police, but instead, they are calling for more reform… How do these people get elected?
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