{"id":91408,"date":"2020-10-17T03:11:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-17T00:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/all-new-yorkers-paying-growing-price-for-de-blasios-go-soft-orders-to-nypd\/"},"modified":"2020-10-17T03:11:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-17T00:11:02","slug":"all-new-yorkers-paying-growing-price-for-de-blasios-go-soft-orders-to-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/all-new-yorkers-paying-growing-price-for-de-blasios-go-soft-orders-to-nypd\/","title":{"rendered":"#All New Yorkers paying growing price for de Blasio\u2019s \u2018go soft\u2019 orders to NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#All New Yorkers paying growing price for de Blasio\u2019s \u2018go soft\u2019 orders to NYPD<\/strong>”
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\n As protests go, this one was pretty run-of-the-mill: maybe 300 bicycle food-delivery guys crowding loudly into City Hall Park Thursday to demand more police protection. They say their bikes are being stolen, often at gunpoint, and the NYPD isn\u2019t doing much about it.<\/p>\n

The claim has a familiar ring to it. There\u2019s a worrisome fraying of Gotham\u2019s social<\/a> fabric underway, and blame lies squarely with Bill de Blasio\u2019s kinder, gentler app<\/a>roach to public safety.<\/p>\n

Sure, the coronavirus, a deteriorating economy and New York\u2019s steadily worsening gun-violence command a lot of attention. At least nine people were shot, one fatally, between Tuesday and late Thursday, with the weekend looming. And that\u2019s not really news<\/a> any longer, is it?<\/p>\n

So where do swiped bikes register compared to bloody sidewalks? Right?<\/p>\n

But if you need your bike to earn your living, meager as it may be, losing it to a pistol-waving thug is a very big deal indeed.<\/p>\n

And when the NYPD\u2019s response seems to be episodic at best \u2014 and often, it is said, nonexistent \u2014 well, who can blame the delivery guys for taking their beef to City Hall Park?<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a wonder the place ain\u2019t packed.<\/p>\n

Certainly the folks who run high-end retail in SoHo have cause to protest what\u2019s euphemistically called shoplifting these days. Slow-motion looting is more like it \u2014 folks wandering about the stores stuffing items worth thousands into duffel bags, then calmly strolling through the front door to waiting luxury automobiles, rarely a cop in sight.<\/p>\n

A more downscale variation afflicts merchants all around Manhattan, especially supermarkets and chain drugstores \u2014 vagrants with duffels of their own, fearlessly strip<\/a>ping shelves and freezers of small items that easily can be peddled to bodegas and small grocers eager for low-cost stock. (Another reason not to buy Ben & Jerry\u2019s ice cream: Who knows where it\u2019s been?)<\/p>\n

All this happens in full view of the public \u2014 leaving folks to wonder two things: Where are our cops, and what the hell is happening to our city?<\/p>\n

It certainly doesn\u2019t help that herds of dirt-bikes are cruising Manhattan\u2019s avenues late at night, unmolested by police. That addled vagrants wander the streets. That the subways \u2014 well, don\u2019t ask. New York, not so long ago unambiguously America\u2019s safest big city, certainly doesn\u2019t feel that way any longer.<\/p>\n

Gotham feels increasingly chaotic and unsafe. That\u2019s because it is. And not by accident.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not every day that one of the highest-ranking commanders in the NYPD flips the bird to a meddling mayor and walks out the door \u2014 as Chief of Patrol Fausto Pichardo did this week.<\/p>\n

Pichardo\u2019s take-this-job-and-shove-it moment reportedly came after sustained, confused and often contradictory personal hectoring from de Blasio \u2014 a demonstration, as if another were needed, of the mayor\u2019s abysmal management skills.<\/p>\n

But it is also a predictable consequence of de Blasio\u2019s low-impact public-safety policies \u2014 particularly the weakening of anti-gang efforts \u2014 that led to the city\u2019s shooting epidemic; of the end of broken-windows policing; of the mayor\u2019s refusal to push back against state and local legislation that cops believe place them in unnecessary danger; his acquiescence in deep NYPD budget cuts and his overt support for explicitly anti-cop political demonstrations.<\/p>\n

Pichardo, obviously, noticed. Veteran cops noticed, too. They\u2019re bailing out of the department like paratroopers over Normandy \u2014 and they are not being replaced, which means far fewer cops on the street, which in turn is a boon to the criminal class.<\/p>\n

Which, also in turn, seems to have noticed as well.<\/p>\n

Armed robbers of every stripe and housing-project gangbangers have, for sure, but also the seemingly low-threat folks who just make life in the city more difficult than need be: the bicycle thieves; the duffel-bag locusts; the ATV joy-riders \u2014 and, of course, the drugged-out panhandlers, subway perverts and sidewalk settlers given free rein by City Hall.<\/p>\n

And now, it seems, regular New Yorkers are noticing; public dissatisfaction with the mayor is broad, vocal and growing.<\/p>\n

Whether voters connect their city\u2019s decaying quality of life with de Blasio\u2019s criminal-justice failures is an open question, but here\u2019s hoping. There\u2019s an election in a year, and watching that process closely will be many of the folks who will decide to invest in a full New York post-pandemic recovery \u2014 or not.<\/p>\n

Will they or won\u2019t they? There\u2019s a lot at stake.<\/p>\n

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