{"id":398837,"date":"2022-01-25T06:15:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mayor-adams-complicated-plan-to-tackle-crime-might-work\/"},"modified":"2022-01-25T06:15:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:15:11","slug":"mayor-adams-complicated-plan-to-tackle-crime-might-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mayor-adams-complicated-plan-to-tackle-crime-might-work\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mayor Adams&#8217; complicated plan to tackle crime might work"},"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-6a28098ccca07\" 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-6a28098ccca07\" 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-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mayor-adams-complicated-plan-to-tackle-crime-might-work\/#NY_has_won_before\" >NY has won before\u00a0<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#Mayor Adams&#8217; complicated plan to tackle crime might work<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/bob-mcmanus.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Bob McManus\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/bob-mcmanus.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/bob-mcmanus.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>       <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Mayor Adams\u2019 long-promised plan to make New York safe landed on the table with a big fat plop Monday. It\u2019s dauntingly complicated, it\u2019s over-stuffed with concessions to grasping <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a> activists and it\u2019s impossibly dependent on actors far beyond the mayor\u2019s control.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But it just might make a difference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Urban America\u2019s public-safety debate \u2014 absolutely unhinged two years ago \u2014 seems to be coming full circle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Back then, the radical battle-cry was: \u201cGet cops off the street!!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lately it has become \u201cget guns off the street\u201d \u2014 and this is the <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\">theme<\/a> of the Adams plan. But confiscation is never going to happen, at least not soon, and certainly not in sufficient numbers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So now we are hearing the first faint hints of a return to common-sense law-enforcement \u2014 an acknowledgment that it\u2019s now time to get actual criminals off the street. Or, to quote Adams speaking from City Hall yesterday, \u201cWe\u2019re going to [target] the trigger-pullers.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/1237962894.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Police officers, clergy and community members hold a candlelight vigil.\" class=\"wp-image-20954320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/1237962894.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/1237962894.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/1237962894.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/1237962894.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Adams said he plans to reinstate the anti-crime patrol unit, which former Mayor de Blasio disbanded.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>To that end, he promised that the NYPD\u2019s hugely successful anti-crime patrols \u2014 dissolved by Bill de Blasio \u2014 will be reinstated. And that they\u2019ll be deployed to 30 violence-wracked police precincts within three weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Strong words and a promise of swift action, just 24 days into a new administration. This is a hopeful combination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s true that the plan comes with obscure details, beside-the-point gun-trafficking rhetoric and pedestrian pledges to address social concerns linked to crime \u2014 and so on and so forth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/NEW-YORK-CRIME_.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Guns are displayed after a gun buyback event organized by the New York City Police Department\" class=\"wp-image-20954311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/NEW-YORK-CRIME_.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/NEW-YORK-CRIME_.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/NEW-YORK-CRIME_.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/NEW-YORK-CRIME_.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>The NYPD confiscated 6,000 illegal guns last year, and has collected 350 more in 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Indeed, the lard is so thick that it gets in the way of what seems to be a clear-eyed exposition of what really enables violent street crime: weak-willed policing complicated by wrong-headed penal-code \u201creforms\u201d driven by deeply problematic radical state and local politicking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t limited to New York, of course. It\u2019s driving urban chaos across the country \u2014 and the effect is not limited to gun violence. Out-of-control vagrancy, publicly expressed untreated mental illness, organized shoplifting\/looting and so on all need to be addressed. Happily, the Adams plan seems aware of these challenges.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/eric-adams-735.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Police officers lock down the scene after two NYPD officers were shot in Harlem.\" class=\"wp-image-20954627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/eric-adams-735.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/eric-adams-735.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/eric-adams-735.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Adams vowed to \u201cget the guns\u201d out of criminals\u2019 hands, saying, \u201cI know how to do this.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"NY_has_won_before\"><\/span>NY has won before\u00a0<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>But first, the guns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The mayor makes much of the fact that the NYPD confiscated 6,000 illegal guns last year, and has collected 350 more since Jan. 1. These are impressive numbers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/NYPD-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=768\" alt=\"The gun used in the shooting of an NYPD officer in the Bronx \" class=\"wp-image-20954332\" width=\"319\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/NYPD-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=636 638w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/NYPD-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=477 478w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/NYPD-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=319 319w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/NYPD-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=159 159w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/NYPD-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\"\/><figcaption>Adams\u2019 new plan against crime will largely tackle illegal gun trafficking.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>But here\u2019s the thing: New York was awash in illegal guns in the \u201980s and \u201990s \u2014 and then all of a sudden it seemed that it wasn\u2019t. And that was because vigorous anti-gun law enforcement and stiff penalties suddenly made it too dangerous for criminals to carry \u2014 and so they largely stopped doing so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the de Blasio administration abandoned those policies, the heat came off, the guns came back, violence flared and suddenly some New York neighborhoods were war zones.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell: More guns confiscated simply means more guns present in the first place, which is a function of lame law enforcement. That\u2019s why targeting the trigger-pullers, as the mayor promises, is so important.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s not diminish the degree of difficulty here. Adams, for all of his judicious phrasing, certainly doesn\u2019t. He may or may not need much help from Washington \u2014 he certainly shouldn\u2019t count on it \u2014 but he definitely needs Albany, the City Council and the city\u2019s five district attorneys to step up smartly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The plan details necessary changes in those wrongheaded bail and criminal-procedure \u201creforms\u201d Albany adopted two years ago. And that means Gov. Hochul has to engage on more than the rhetorical level.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/eric-adams-734.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"The scene where a baby was shot.\" class=\"wp-image-20954643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/eric-adams-734.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/eric-adams-734.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/eric-adams-734.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Adams\u2019 plan also includes rolling out undercover police called \u201cNeighborhood Safety Teams.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Christopher Sadowski<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And is there any reasonable person left in New York who doesn\u2019t see Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg\u2019s approach to law enforcement for the sick joke that it is? Bragg, the city\u2019s full complement of like-minded judges, and its battalion of radical-activist lawyers are overdue for reform themselves. But they won\u2019t sit down without a fight.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This leaves Adams in need of broad shoulders, steady focus and a whole lot of allies. Plus the support of New Yorkers of good will.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You know \u2014 the folks who elected him.\n                        <\/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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It\u2019s dauntingly complicated, it\u2019s over-stuffed with concessions to grasping social activists and it\u2019s impossibly dependent on actors far beyond the mayor\u2019s control.\u00a0 But it just might make&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":398838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/01\/eric-adams-733.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[124741,4998,66147,61625,7342],"class_list":["post-398837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-24-22","tag-crime","tag-eric-adams","tag-guns","tag-shootings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}