{"id":434085,"date":"2022-04-19T01:32:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T22:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/comparing-crime-now-to-the-80s-wont-cut-it\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T01:32:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T22:32:18","slug":"comparing-crime-now-to-the-80s-wont-cut-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/comparing-crime-now-to-the-80s-wont-cut-it\/","title":{"rendered":"#Comparing crime now to the \u201980s won&#8217;t cut it"},"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-6a2910c7affbe\" 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-6a2910c7affbe\" 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\/comparing-crime-now-to-the-80s-wont-cut-it\/#%E2%80%9CComparing_crime_now_to_the_80s_wont_cut_it%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Comparing crime now to the \u201980s won&#8217;t cut it&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CComparing_crime_now_to_the_80s_wont_cut_it%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Comparing crime now to the \u201980s won&#8217;t cut it&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/mayor-eric-adams-1-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Mayor Eric Adams surely meant to calm fears when he noted Sunday that crime in the city isn\u2019t as bad as during the 1980s and early \u201990s. But it  won\u2019t make New Yorkers feel any safer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was in the city when [crime] spiraled out of control during the mid-\u201980s, early \u201990s,\u201d and we\u2019re still \u201cfar from that,\u201d Adams replied when asked about New Yorkers who feel \u201cunnerved\u201d after last week\u2019s subway attack.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, crime was once much worse: Murders in the city peaked at 2,262 in 1990; by 2017, they\u2019d fallen to just 292. <\/p>\n<p>Yet they\u2019ve crept back up every year <em>since<\/em> 2017, hitting 488 last year. They\u2019re down slightly from that rate so far this year, but the city\u2019s seen a 43% surge in overall major felonies, including car thefts (71%), assaults (25%), rape (15%), robbery (48%) and grand larceny (55%). In the subway, major felonies are running <em>68% higher<\/em> than at this point last year.<\/p>\n<p>The problem, of course, is that New York lawmakers have turned sharply against cops and in favor of criminals. The moment Adams\u2019 predecessor, Bill de Blasio, took office, he slammed cops and settled the case against the city\u2019s stop-and-frisk practices, tying the hands of future mayors. He then proceeded to end \u201cbroken windows\u201d policing, scrap the city\u2019s undercover anti-gun units and back soft-on-crime judges and prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Albany passed disastrously flawed measures like cashless bail, tougher new pro-defense rules for district attorneys and the Raise the Age law, which lets nearly all 16- and 17-year-old offenders escape serious consequences in the adult-court system. During the 2020 George Floyd riots, anti-cop hostility grew even more intense, and the city actually cut NYPD funding.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the City Council made it far easier to sue individual cops for on-the-job actions. That forces every officer to think twice before doing his or her job.<\/p>\n<p>So never mind the \u201980s; New York City\u2019s crime surge is bad\u00a0\u2014 and getting worse. Adams vowed to turn it around, and he\u2019s clearly trying. But he\u2019ll need to undo a ton of bad policies to get significant results.<\/p>\n<p>And nothing short of results, Mr. Mayor, will calm New Yorkers\u2019 fears. \u00a0\u00a0\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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But it won\u2019t make New Yorkers feel any safer. \u201cI was in the city when [crime] spiraled out of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":434086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/mayor-eric-adams-1-2.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[128146,5042,4998,72202,43,66147,70595,108776],"class_list":["post-434085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4-18-22","tag-bill-de-blasio","tag-crime","tag-criminal-justice-reforms","tag-editorial","tag-eric-adams","tag-murders","tag-stop-and-frisk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434085","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=434085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}