{"id":134258,"date":"2020-12-15T03:58:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T00:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nycs-suffering-from-delusion-that-you-can-maintain-order-without-coercion\/"},"modified":"2020-12-15T03:58:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T00:58:30","slug":"nycs-suffering-from-delusion-that-you-can-maintain-order-without-coercion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nycs-suffering-from-delusion-that-you-can-maintain-order-without-coercion\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC&#8217;s suffering from delusion that you can maintain order without coercion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a291ca21ec50\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a291ca21ec50\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nycs-suffering-from-delusion-that-you-can-maintain-order-without-coercion\/#More_from\" >More from:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#NYC&#8217;s suffering from delusion that you can maintain order without coercion<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"in-line-column wp-caption alignleft\">\n<div class=\"box module inline columnist desktop\">\n<div class=\"columnist-info\">\n<h4><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"More_from\"><\/span>More from:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<picture class=\"columnist-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\"\/><\/picture><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>New York is about nothing if not over-the-top drama, and that especially includes the city\u2019s pathologies.<\/p>\n<p>Exhibit A: The Amsterdam \u00adAvenue steps of the Cathedral of St. John the Devine about 3:45 p.m. Sunday \u2014 when a well-armed, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/12\/14\/st-john-the-divine-cathedral-shooter-had-attempted-murder-charge\/\">apparently insane career criminal capped a heavily \u00adattended public Christmas carol concert by opening fire while shouting, \u201cKill me! Kill me!\u201d at police, who obliged.<\/p>\n<p>Tragic, yes, but also an amalgam of two of Gotham\u2019s most vexing crises \u2014 aggressively expressed public mental illness and uncontrolled gun violence. The result was one undeniably dramatic exit.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, if not critically, New York\u2019s political leadership had no comment beyond platitudes \u2014 and even then, only \u00adbecause the event attracted so many TV <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> cameras. Plus, how often does a suicide-by-cop require a reaction from the head of the Episcopal Diocese of New York?<\/p>\n<p>The sad fact is that the threat of lethal violence hangs over far too many New Yorkers, whose leaders pretend as if it\u2019s all an act of God, rather than the entirely predictable result of a shameful loss of official will.<\/p>\n<p>Gotham\u2019s weekend butcher\u2019s bill included a spate of shootings in Brooklyn. Last week, the illegal-gun victim list was at a 14-year high; an old man in a nursing home was hit by a stray bullet, and a FedEx driver was shot at in Brooklyn. Nobody, for a change, had been shoved onto subway tracks, but everybody who stands on a platform worries about that, or should.<\/p>\n<p>So the issue as New York \u00adenters a mayoral-election year isn\u2019t that there is a public-safety problem in the city \u2014 that much is clear \u2014 but that nobody seeking to succeed Bill de Blasio is willing to do anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>Or even to talk about it, let alone to acknowledge that there is a role for coercion in the maintenance of public order.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it\u2019s a little astonishing that this is even an issue, let alone a point of discussion, but civic tranquility depends upon restraint of the dangerously mentally ill; on the imposition of order on a city\u2019s vagrant-packed public spaces and, most especially, on vigorous garden-variety policing.<\/p>\n<p>As New York discovered \u00adalmost two generations ago, paying attention to the petty offenses pays big dividends. Life-preserving dividends.<\/p>\n<p>But while next year\u2019s mayoral race is coming to resemble a cavalry charge, not one of the candidates is speaking realistically about public safety. If a consensus on the \u00adissue is forming, it\u2019s that Rudy Giuliani\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach to crime \u2014 kinetic contact \u2014 was too mean. Mike Bloomberg\u2019s strategy \u2014 maintenance of effort \u2014 lacked humanity. An \u201cenlightened\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>-services-led approach is the way to go.<\/p>\n<p>That would be an intensification of the de Blasio strategy, the results of which can be seen most days on the Upper West Side\u2019s vagrant-cluttered Broadway median; in skyrocketing property-crime rates, especially auto theft; and, most tragically of all, in the ballooning gun-violence statistics.<\/p>\n<p>The mayoral field\u2019s two front-runners, city Comptroller Scott Stringer and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, have been around long enough to know better; indeed, Adams is a former cop. But neither has had much good to say about the NYPD. Stringer, in fact, wants to s<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> tens of millions from the department\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n<p>The others, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly ankle-biters of the sort that appear early in mayoral campaigns when there is no incumbent, are either openly antagonistic to reasonable law enforcement, speak in heavily racialized terms or are otherwise incomprehensible on the subject.<\/p>\n<p>All this reflects startling contempt both for crime victims and for the notion of navigable public spaces. But for better or worse, it does reflect New York\u2019s current political sensibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Albany, after all, was the architect of the bail \u201creform\u201d debacle that NYPD Commissioner Dermot Shea largely blames for the city\u2019s bloody streets. And it now appears that the state\u2019s newly veto-proof Democratic Legislature is poised also to \u201creform\u201d the parole system \u2014 no doubt with the encouragement of Gov. Cuomo, who is always happy to go along when he has no alternative.<\/p>\n<p>Still, empty jails are no antidote to rising crime, just as granting free reign to the aggressively mentally ill won\u2019t cure chaotic, unsafe public spaces.<\/p>\n<p>The public knows this, intuitively. So the mystery is this: Why is there no one in the burgeoning mayoral field willing to say so out loud. One needn\u2019t necessarily win to make a difference \u2014 and to make a name, or maybe a career, for one\u2019s self.<\/p>\n<p>New York won\u2019t be insane forever. <\/p>\n<p><em>Twitter: @RLMac2<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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