{"id":203900,"date":"2021-03-17T00:52:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasio-refuses-to-get-serious-about-nycs-soaring-violent-crime\/"},"modified":"2021-03-17T00:52:47","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:52:47","slug":"de-blasio-refuses-to-get-serious-about-nycs-soaring-violent-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasio-refuses-to-get-serious-about-nycs-soaring-violent-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio refuses to get serious about NYC’s soaring violent crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#De Blasio refuses to get serious about NYC’s soaring violent crime<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The 2021 homicide rate is running about even with last year\u2019s tally, but not for lack of trying on the part of aspiring murderers with bad aim: Shooting incidents and victims are way up and app<\/a>ear to be accelerating.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In response, Mayor Bill de Blasio has rolled out a series<\/a> of unserious proposals and reforms that would be hilarious if the problem weren\u2019t so horrible. He\u2019s setting up 2021, his last year in office, as a monument to his failed tenure.<\/p>\n

On Monday, he introduced a \u201cway to reimagine policing\u201d that he and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams cooked up. Called the \u201cAdvance Peace Model,\u201d the new program will bring the unacknowledged \u201cco-producers of public safety,\u201d namely community organizations and \u201cviolence interrupters,\u201d to confront shootings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Williams \u2014 who live-streamed into the mayor\u2019s daily briefing from his home safe inside US Army Garrison Fort Hamilton \u2014 New York City has already seen amazing success with programs that bring \u201ccredible messengers\u201d to the streets to help young New Yorkers \u201cat risk of engaging in gun violence.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

One might have thought their victims are the ones who are \u201cat risk,\u201d but according to Williams, the \u201cCure Violence\u201d program, \u201cbased on a model we saw in Chicago,\u201d produced a \u201cmarked decrease in gun violence.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

If Chicago \u2014 where shootings and murders were up 50 percent in 2020 \u2014 is the \u201cmodel,\u201d maybe we shouldn\u2019t expect things will go too well in New York either.\u00a0<\/p>\n

De Blasio is yet again trotting out \u201cviolence interruption\u201d as a solution to the problem of rampant gunfire. It was only last July \u2014 just eight months ago \u2014 that he told us about a stunning new proposal to end shootings by giving more support to local community groups, which would intervene with \u201cat risk\u201d youth, \u201caddressing the root causes\u201d of gun violence.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Bill de Blasio and Jumaane Williams announced a \u201cway to reimagine policing,\u201d this week.<\/figcaption>
Matthew McDermott<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, when a city program shows no success, and the problem it is meant to address gets much worse, one would think the leaders would try something new. Not in de Blasio\u2019s New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n

As part of his \u201cRecovery for All of Us\u201d program, de Blasio has outlined 36 reforms \u201cto undo the legacy and harm of racialized policing,\u201d though he is careful to note that this is just \u201cthe first step of a three-part process.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In the midst of a stunning reversal of three decades of declining violent crime, it\u2019s hard to understand why now is the moment \u201cto\u00a0acknowledge the NYPD\u2019s historical role in the mistreatment of communities of color\u201d and undo the very policing tactics (such as the NYPD anti-crime unit, dismantled last June) that have taken guns off the street and protected predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods. But that\u2019s the plan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Among the 36 reforms, the NYPD will impose \u201crestorative-justice training\u201d among brass to \u201crepair relationships with communities.\u201d This theme comes up a lot these days, especially in the mayoral candidate forums that have been going on practically nonstop. Questions about public safety are invariably turned to the problem of \u201ctrust\u201d between the community and the NYPD.<\/p>\n

But is trust in the police really the major problem, or would New Yorkers prefer to be able to go shopping without fear of being shot and take the subway without fear of being shoved?<\/p>\n

The NYPD will also expand the \u201csuccessful Brownsville pilot\u201d of community-based intervention. Shooting victims in Brownsville are up 140 percent this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In response to the rising tide of racist attacks on Asian people, First Lady Chirlane McCray\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0for New Yorkers to \u201cintervene when witnessing hateful violence.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a series of boneheaded tweets, McCray suggested we \u201cjust try interrupting it. Ignore the harasser and engage directly with the person who is being targeted by asking a question like, \u2018What time is it?\u2019\u201d She concludes by encouraging us to \u201cphysically intervene . . . after assessing the situation.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

McCray\u2019s advice to get between violent sociopaths and their victims is reminiscent of Brooklyn beep Eric Adams\u2019 recommendation not to call 911 when people are lighting fireworks, but to talk it out instead; that idiotic counsel got Shatavia Walls killed.<\/p>\n

Officials like Adams and McCray don\u2019t want to tell us to call 911 because they\u2019ll get slammed by the anti-cop left, which fantasizes that every NYPD officer is a Klan member.\u00a0<\/p>\n

New York City is facing a real disaster. But Mayor de Blasio is too busy counting the days until he can punch out to care.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seth Barron is managing editor of The American Mind and \u00adauthor of the forthcoming book \u201cThe Last Days of New York.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\n <\/div>\n