{"id":9494,"date":"2020-06-17T03:24:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T00:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-yorks-cowardly-retreat-from-effective-policing\/"},"modified":"2020-06-17T03:24:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T00:24:00","slug":"new-yorks-cowardly-retreat-from-effective-policing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-yorks-cowardly-retreat-from-effective-policing\/","title":{"rendered":"#New York\u2019s cowardly retreat from effective policing"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#New York\u2019s cowardly retreat from effective policing<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n Good cops confront criminals. This generates friction, which is regrettable, but it\u2019s no reason to ignore crime and, thus, its victims.<\/p>\n

But avoiding friction even as deadly crime rises is what Mayor Bill de Blasio\u2019s New York Police Department, and the city\u2019s political culture, are all about these days. It\u2019s a coward\u2019s app<\/a>roach to order, and it never works for long: Criminals sense weakness and exploit it.<\/p>\n

One by one, the strategies that transformed Gotham from the murder capital of America into the safest big city in the land have been strip<\/a>ped away, and the latest to go is the NYPD\u2019s enormously successful anti-crime initiative.<\/p>\n

The initiative deployed specially trained teams to high-crime hot spots to tamp down lawbreaking, which usually involved guns; when the bad guys moved on, the anti-crime cops followed \u2014 wash, rinse, repeat.<\/p>\n

It was a highly effective undertaking \u2014 though controversial, because it generated friction. In no small way, it kept New York from turning into sanguinary Chicago, as even Police Commissioner Dermot Shea was too embarrassed to deny as he announced the unit\u2019s dismantlement Monday. \u201cIts [loss] will be felt immedia<\/a>tely in the communities that we protect,\u201d said Shea.<\/p>\n

So why do it?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe must [proceed] in a manner that builds trust between officers and the community,\u201d the commissioner added. In other words, City Hall has made a choice between necessary friction and temporary tranquility, damning the \u00adfuture to live with the consequences.<\/p>\n

That is, again, a coward\u2019s risk-free exit \u2014\u2013 or perhaps more accurately, the cowardly politician\u2019s way out. For sure, de Blasio is now a little less likely to be booed at the next Black Lives Matter rally.<\/p>\n

A win for him; for the city, not so much.<\/p>\n

Murder is up 25 percent for the first six months of 2020 \u2014 too long a period for the dramatic increase to be dismissed as a statistical blip. Shootings, woundings, burglary and auto theft have also seen sharp and sustained increases.<\/p>\n

If it\u2019s beginning to feel as if the city is under siege, it\u2019s because it most likely is. And such things don\u2019t happen in a vacuum.<\/p>\n

As noted, the time-tested techniques that helped transform David Dinkins\u2019 New York into the largely low-crime oasis that it became during the Giuliani and Bloomberg years were systematically stripped away after de Blasio took office.<\/p>\n

Those measures were essentially intended to keep guns off the streets, and they were spectacularly effective \u2014 especially, again, if a fair frame of reference is Chicago, where multi-murder weekends have been routine for decades.<\/p>\n

First to go was stop and frisk, which targeted suspiciously acting young men for special attention. However clumsily it may have been executed, particularly at its peak, few would deny that it reduced the number of illegal guns in play.<\/p>\n

Then went broken-windows policing, which targeted various anti-social acts: public drinking and urination, turnstile-jumping and so forth. This made for slightly less aromatic subways, but it also helped persuade a lot of young males to leave their guns at home.<\/p>\n

Last year, Albany got into the act, making it far more difficult to detain and prosecute \u00adpotentially dangerous accused criminals. And don\u2019t forget the morale-crushing, vaguely threatening #DefundthePolice rhetoric.<\/p>\n

And now the end of the anti-crime initiative.<\/p>\n

The unifying theme to all of this is the \u00adnotion that vigorous law enforcement has a disproportionately negative impact on minority communities \u2014 which it does, if one discounts that raging crime has a similar \u00adeffect on law-abiding minorities.<\/p>\n

The problem, boiled down to its basics, is that minority neighborhoods are disproportionately crime-prone. While this leaves plenty of room for enlightened social work, the new policies make sense only if one considers criminals somehow to be victims themselves \u2014 and it is wholly unreasonable to make crime a less risky proposition for criminals and then expect less crime.<\/p>\n

And yet this is precisely the course New York\u2019s political culture has set, both formally through legislation and policy changes, and informally by making it clear that aggressively effective policing won\u2019t be encouraged. Or even tolerated, for that matter.<\/p>\n

This is the zeitgeist to which Shea surrendered on Monday. It isn\u2019t likely that disbanding the NYPD\u2019s anti-crime unit was his idea. But while he didn\u2019t have to execute City Hall\u2019s order \u2014 he could have quit \u2014 execute is what he did.<\/p>\n

Someday he will regret that decision. As will the city.<\/p>\n

Twitter: @RLMac2 <\/em>\n <\/div>\n

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