This retreat from an assault on the law was not as consequential as that of Portland police who did nothing as journalist Andy Ngo got assaulted and injured by Antifa thugs, but it bespeaks a dangerous trend: The growing disdain for the prestige of law enforcement officers, who now are politically handcuffed and prevented from doing their jobs.
Throughout the Nineties, crime in the city plummeted: Violent crime dropped by more than 56%, and property crimes 65%. Murders peaked at 2245 in 1990, then started to decline, particularly after Rudy Giuliani was elected mayor in 1993 and instituted changes in policing, such as the "Broken windows" crackdown on misdemeanors like subway turn-style-jumping that created an atmosphere of disorder and lawlessness.
Along with more police on the streets, more criminals put in jail, and tactics like "Stop-and-frisk" of suspects, these changes contributed to the steep decline in murders.
Sounds cruel and abusive in our age of therapeutic solicitude, dainty snowflakes, and predatory lawyers, but for the police to be effective, they cannot brook any public challenge to their authority that damages their prestige.
The rise of the New Left in the Sixties, with its violent rhetoric and crimes, turned hatred of the police and violence against the social order that police defend into a political virtue.
We should also be concerned about more deadly violence against police officers, such as the 2016 assassination of six policemen in Dallas by an assailant angered by the media and race-hacks' over hyped and misleading coverage of police shootings of blacks.
At some point more people are going to start dying, and their blood will be on the hands of progressive politicians who restrain and disrespect the police in the service of a malign ideology long associated with violence against those who guard all of us-including anti-cop progressives and activists-while we sleep.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274441/police-prestige-declines-crime-increases-and-bruce-thornton
Throughout the Nineties, crime in the city plummeted: Violent crime dropped by more than 56%, and property crimes 65%. Murders peaked at 2245 in 1990, then started to decline, particularly after Rudy Giuliani was elected mayor in 1993 and instituted changes in policing, such as the "Broken windows" crackdown on misdemeanors like subway turn-style-jumping that created an atmosphere of disorder and lawlessness.
Along with more police on the streets, more criminals put in jail, and tactics like "Stop-and-frisk" of suspects, these changes contributed to the steep decline in murders.
Sounds cruel and abusive in our age of therapeutic solicitude, dainty snowflakes, and predatory lawyers, but for the police to be effective, they cannot brook any public challenge to their authority that damages their prestige.
The rise of the New Left in the Sixties, with its violent rhetoric and crimes, turned hatred of the police and violence against the social order that police defend into a political virtue.
We should also be concerned about more deadly violence against police officers, such as the 2016 assassination of six policemen in Dallas by an assailant angered by the media and race-hacks' over hyped and misleading coverage of police shootings of blacks.
At some point more people are going to start dying, and their blood will be on the hands of progressive politicians who restrain and disrespect the police in the service of a malign ideology long associated with violence against those who guard all of us-including anti-cop progressives and activists-while we sleep.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/274441/police-prestige-declines-crime-increases-and-bruce-thornton
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