The biggest barrier to New York’s recovery is its pathetic political class
By Bob McManus
August 26, 2020 | 7:17pm
So New York stopped prosecuting turnstile jumpers, and now folks are smashing windows in the subways. Has there ever been a more Âdelicious vindication of a venerable policing policy than that?
The theory was simple enough: Fix one broken window in a public space, and your work is done. Ignore it, and soon enough, you have more broken windows. Many more.
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Âdecided in 2018 to stop prosecuting fare-evaders — it seems they were being targeted disproportionately, compared to non-fare-evaders — and suddenly bad things began to happen. This Âincludes, most recently, several hundred thousand dollars worth of deliberately smashed subway-car windows.
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