{"id":431276,"date":"2022-04-14T01:56:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T22:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/our-leaders-must-get-crime-under-control\/"},"modified":"2022-04-14T01:56:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T22:56:25","slug":"our-leaders-must-get-crime-under-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/our-leaders-must-get-crime-under-control\/","title":{"rendered":"#Our leaders must get crime under control"},"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-6a21932a03481\" 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-6a21932a03481\" 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-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/our-leaders-must-get-crime-under-control\/#%E2%80%9COur_leaders_must_get_crime_under_control%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Our leaders must get crime under control&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9COur_leaders_must_get_crime_under_control%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Our leaders must get crime under control&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\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\/nicole-gelinas.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Nicole Gelinas\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/nicole-gelinas.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>After a violent attack on New York City itself, it\u2019s comforting to spin tales about how tough and resilient we are \u2014 that New Yorkers will get back on the subways as if nothing had h<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>ened. This \u201cNew York tough\u201d story was true in the recent past, from 9\/11 to the West Side bike-path attack that killed eight people in 2017. But we can\u2019t count on it now. New Yorkers aren\u2019t going to be there for a city that is failing them.<\/p>\n<p>During New York\u2019s COVID-induced meltdown, now in its third year, sage voices have told us that we shouldn\u2019t worry about the city\u2019s future because the city always bounces back. Didn\u2019t people say no one would return to office towers after 9\/11?<\/p>\n<p>Well, no, they\u00a0<em>really<\/em>\u00a0didn\u2019t say that because people\u00a0<em>did\u00a0<\/em>return to their Manhattan offices, im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely. We had no choice. Similarly, though we were nervous about packing into subways that could become mass-terror scenes, we had no choice about that, either.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t revisionist history. In 2001, subway ridership was up nearly 2% over 2000 levels, and in 2002, it rose again, by half a percent. Similarly, after that 2017 truck-terror attack on the Hudson River bike path and the car-terror attack in Times Square that killed one the same year, New York bounced right back.<\/p>\n<p>This time is different. The age of terror that started with 9\/11 was also the age of record-low violent crime in New York. Yes, people thought once in a while about being bombed on the subway or whether they were on a low-enough floor of an office building to jump out the window.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/APTOPIX-Subway-Shooting.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"People fleeing the subway platform in Sunset Park, Brooklyn during the mass shooting on April 12, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-21895300\" width=\"306\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/APTOPIX-Subway-Shooting.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=612 612w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/APTOPIX-Subway-Shooting.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=458 459w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/APTOPIX-Subway-Shooting.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=306 306w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/APTOPIX-Subway-Shooting.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=153 153w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/APTOPIX-Subway-Shooting.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\"\/><figcaption>People fleeing the subway platform in Sunset Park, Brooklyn during the mass shooting on April 12, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Will B Wylde via AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>But these were background fears \u2014 and with murders going down almost every year,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/assets\/nypd\/downloads\/pdf\/analysis_and_planning\/historical-crime-data\/seven-major-felony-offenses-2000-2021.pdf\">from 649 in 2001 to below 300<\/a>\u00a0in 2017 and 2018, people didn\u2019t worry about being pushed to death down the subway stairs or their kids being killed by \u201cstray\u201d bullets walking home from school.<\/p>\n<p>For that matter, people riding the subways in the 1970s and \u201980s had to worry about random muggings and stabbings, but they didn\u2019t have to worry about mass ideological terror.<\/p>\n<p>Now the anxiety load is double what it was back in 2019 and even in the \u201980s. New Yorkers on a subway train or platform must worry that a random mentally ill person will shove or stab them. They must worry that a teen gang might rob them. And they must worry that someone else has spent his whole pandemic nursing his grievances and plotting a spectacular terror attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Nor is the city coming together, as it once did, after such attacks. In the month after 9\/11,  <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2001\/1120\/p1s2-ussc.html\">New York murders<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2001\/1120\/p1s2-ussc.html\">fell 11%<\/a>. By contrast,\u00a0just hours\u00a0after Brooklyn subway-shooting suspect wounded 29 people, \u201cregular\u201d criminals shot and killed three people in The Bronx (in three separate incidents) and wounded 13 in The Bronx and Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegular\u201d violent subway crime bounced back immediately, too. About 17 hours after the Brooklyn mass attack,\u00a0a suspect stabbed two men on a Harlem platform. <\/p>\n<p>Violent subway crime is up 40% in the first two months of this year compared with 2019, despite ridership that rarely exceeds 60% of pre-COVID normal.<\/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\/04\/bronx-shooting-2.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Police investigating the scene of a shooting the Bronx on April 12, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-21895259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/bronx-shooting-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/bronx-shooting-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/bronx-shooting-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Police investigating the scene of a shooting the Bronx on April 12, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">William C. Lopez\/NYPost<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New Yorkers who have stayed away from the subways for 25 months are hardly going to flock back now. The\u00a0<em>only<\/em>\u00a0hope is a visible, respectful police presence that makes New Yorkers feel safer \u2014 and that results in immediate double-digit drops in everyday underground crime.<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the Brooklyn attack, Mayor Eric Adams said he would double the number of cops deployed on the subways. Done right, more cops engaged in more interactions with lawbreakers and people behaving suspiciously or erratically will address\u00a0<em>both<\/em>\u00a0problems: the everyday reality of robberies and assaults underground and the lower but real risk of targeted terror attacks.<\/p>\n<p>And, hmmm, what\u2019s this? After the attack, our left-wing city comptroller, Brad Lander, gave \u201cthanks of a grateful city\u201d to \u2014 gasp \u2014 \u201cNYPD officers.\u201d He even said that he was glad the suspect had been arrested! <\/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\/04\/subway-police.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"NYPD officers patrolling the 36th Street in Brooklyn where the shooting took place on April 13, 2022.\" class=\"wp-image-21895243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/subway-police.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/subway-police.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/subway-police.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>NYPD officers patrolling the 36th Street in Brooklyn where the shooting took place on April 13, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Gregory P. Mango<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Let\u2019s hope that state lawmakers have similar epiphanies: People engaged in violence belong behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged shooter targeted the subways likely because he understands how important they are to New York City. With more than two million pre-COVID riders still avoiding the rails each day, New York City\u2019s elected officials need to appreciate that fact, as well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Nicole Gelinas is a contributing editor to the Manhattan Institute\u2019s City Journal.<\/em>\n                        <\/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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