{"id":273916,"date":"2021-06-14T03:30:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T00:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nycs-next-mayor-will-struggle-to-overturn-criminal-justice-reforms\/"},"modified":"2021-06-14T03:30:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T00:30:24","slug":"nycs-next-mayor-will-struggle-to-overturn-criminal-justice-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nycs-next-mayor-will-struggle-to-overturn-criminal-justice-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC’s next mayor will struggle to overturn criminal-justice ‘reforms’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC’s next mayor will struggle to overturn criminal-justice ‘reforms’<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Violent crime in New York City is soaring: Murder is up 11.7 percent over last year; shootings, a staggering 68 percent. And it\u2019s likely here to stay<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t blame poverty or the pandemic: Squalid arguments and score-settling continue to motivate most gun violence. A long-standing squabble over parking app<\/a>arently led to the recent killing of 10-year-old Justin Wallace. An obscure beef between Farrakhan Muhammad and his brother allegedly precipitated a daylight shooting spree in Times Square last month.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mayor Bill de Blasio resolutely \u00addeflects responsibility for the horrific rise in crime, now \u00adentering its second year. He insists \u2014 ludicrously \u2014 that his\u00a0\u201cCure Violence\u201d program, which he touts annually and which has at best a track record of no impact, will fix everything.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s no accident that New Yorkers are counting the days till this bad dream is over, nor that the leading mayoral candidates are the ones who promise to make public safety a priority.<\/p>\n

Voters hope that, once de Blasio is gone, the new mayor will restore a New York City where ordinary people feel secure taking the subway alone at night, without worrying that someone will slash their faces with a box cutter.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not so fast. De Blasio has been a terrible mayor, having wrecked a safe and prosperous city. But he didn\u2019t act alone. His cronies and comrades in the City Council and state Legislature have substantially and systematically refashioned the law to ensure that criminals will have the upper hand, while law enforcers are hobbled.<\/p>\n

These legal changes won\u2019t soon or easily be undone.<\/p>\n

In 2014, de Blasio dropped the city\u2019s appeal against several spurious, anti-anti-crime suits pertaining to patrolling and instead submitted to the \u00adsupervision of an outside \u201cNYPD Monitor.\u201d The monitor oversees training and procedures, audits the NYPD\u2019s patrol practices and \u00adreports to the federal court on progress toward its goals.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s administration has overseen criminal justice reforms that have led to an increase in crime.<\/figcaption>
Daniel William McKnight<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Some of the measures implemented under the monitor, such as body cameras, have been salutary. But others \u2014 such as the elimination of the Trespass Affidavit Program, which helped keep drug dealers, loiterers and other miscreants out of private apartment buildings \u2014 appear to have contributed to the crime problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then, in 2016, the council passed \u2014 and the mayor signed \u2014 a major set of \u201creforms\u201d that have contributed to the deterioration of safe streets and the quality of life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The measures effectively decriminalized \u201copen containers,\u201d urinating in public, littering and hanging out in parks after closing. Then-Councilman and now Rep. \u00adRitchie Torres, a supporter of the legislation, joked about opponents\u2019 fears of a coming \u201capocalypse of public urination.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Smelled the streets much lately, Congressman?\u00a0<\/p>\n

The council also passed the 2018 Right to Know Act, which short-circuits the cops\u2019 constitutionally protected ability to conduct searches. The law, unique in the nation, forces cops to tell suspects that they are not obligated to consent to being searched, effectively making the police act as legal advisers, working against themselves and for evildoers. No doubt many guns have remained concealed as perps were told they could walk away.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the state level, bail \u00ad\u201creform\u201d has allowed thousands of criminals to leave their \u00adarraignments and go out to commit more crime, often in a matter of 24 hours. Discovery \u201creform\u201d has led to fewer witnesses coming forward to report what they have seen, since they know that their personal information will be immedia<\/a>tely turned over to the defense.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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NYPD cars at the scene of a shooting in the Bronx on June 11, 2021.<\/figcaption>
Robert Miller<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, the so-called diaphragm law and the end to qualified immunity have put cops on notice that they risk criminal and civil jeopardy for attempting to detain violent, resisting perps.<\/p>\n

The effect \u2014 and intent \u2014 has been to shackle the law, to privilege the lawless over the law-abiding. And the vast extent of the measures, spread across municipal and state law, means that restoring sanity will be an epic, uphill battle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t to say that the next mayor will have no options or shouldn\u2019t try like hell to make the streets safe again. He or she must. But it will take extraordinary will and political courage, because the hard left in New York, always several steps ahead of the game<\/a>, has already codified chaos by reconfiguring the legal system.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Seth Barron is managing editor of The American Mind and \u00adauthor of\u00a0\u201cThe Last Days of New York.\u201d\u00a0Twitter: @SethBarronNYC<\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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