NY Mayor Bill de Blasio Defunded Police. More New Yorkers Keep Dying For It.
By Bryan Preston Sep 03, 2020 2:32 PM EST
Back in early June, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio proudly crowed about shifting $1 billion from the NYPD to other parts of the city’s budget. “We think it’s the right thing to do,†de Blasio said. His activist wife, Chirlane McCray, said she saw a “world without police†as “Nirvana.â€
Violent crime in New York was already surging by that point. The reasons come down to policy. As I wrote back in mid-June:
New York’s crime increase cannot be blamed on increasing population. The city has been noticeably losing residents for close to a year. In the halcyon pre-plague days of Sept. 2019, New Yorkers were leaving because they’d voted in very expensive public policy and then decided to leave without paying the tab. Plus crime was already starting to creep up.
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