Do I have to introduce Bill Bratton here? He has headed the Boston, New York, and Los Angeles police departments. Major figure getting police to respect people of color and the fundamental constitutional guarantees.
Bratton gets lower crime rates and good relations with "Your Police." Here's Bratton with one of his friends:
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The real fun here is the World Class Idiot GOPers and what they say about de Blasio, constitutional rights, and crime. They publish their main dreck at WSJ and Manhattan Institute. It's hoax after hoax, dumb lies, slanders, all followed by teabagger comments.
Each stick of published madness is a nail in the Republican coffin. Either that or it's the End of the World.
For a LYAO collection of GOPer coffin nails, please allow yourself to be welcomed into the mysterious Extended Region below the orange muffin:
Good day. Here we are, below the muffin. Use of electronic devices is encouraged.
The game is fear mongering: "Elect de Blasio and crime will return to 1960s and 1970s levels." There's a more fundamental hoax: "Constitutional rights conflict with public safety. Society has to choose one or the other, not both." That was the Ad Biz scheme from Joe Lhota.
-- "Is New York City Mayoral Candidate Bill de Blasio the New Dinkins?" This goes with a claim that Dinkins "failed as mayor" and denying that Dinkins initiated the "broken windows" system with his “Safe Streets, Safe City” program. Also denying the obvious statistical fact that crime decreased, not increased while Dinkins was mayor. - from Fred Siegel
-- "de Blasio has... anti-policing allies." This in a nasty piece that appears to blame the Mayor-elect for a shooting in Bryant Park. You get New York's gun control laws ignored; it's stop-and-frisk that has produced this: "New York City teens carry handguns at less than half the national rate — 2.3 percent of teens vs. 5.1 percent. The figure’s down 36 percent since 2001" when illegal shipments of guns to NYC were first interdicted with Federal cooperation. - from Nicole Gelinas
-- One hoot is a MI summary of the campaign issues that omits crime. This came out 5 days before the election with de Blasio ahead in the polls by 65-26. What's bizarre with this story is that every info ad put out by the Republican, Joe Lhota, had shown riots or burning buildings or bodies on the ground. Lhota played the campaign as a fear mongering creep. Getting to Election Day the writer is embarrassed to mention Lhota's single-issue of the campaign. Also by - Nicole Gelinas
-- "In Two Weeks, New York City Will Commit Suicide." This piece beggars my skills at summarization. You have to read it. - Diana Furchtgott-Roth
-- Joe Lhota and his crew made use of Wall Street Journal pseudo-sociology. "The recession of 2008-09 has undercut one of the most destructive social theories that came out of the 1960s: the idea that the root cause of crime lies in income inequality and social injustice." This has become a seminal article for RWNJ opposition to social justice. - Heather MacDonald, repub from WSJ
What really happened in New York was that police work was converted from gang-on-gang head knocking with frequent police corruption over to data-driven management. Bratton aimed his system to meet the "Your Police" objective.
One paragraph in the latter WSJ piece admits as much:
"The spread of data-driven policing has also contributed to the 2000s’ crime drop. At the start of the recession, the two police chiefs who confidently announced that their cities’ crime rates would remain recession-proof were Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton and New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. As New York Police Commissioner in the mid-1990s, Mr. Bratton pioneered the intensive use of crime data to determine policing strategies and to hold precinct commanders accountable—a process known as Compstat."
This was the 1990s and 2000s crime drop. It started with the David Dinkins' administration in New York where Bratton first got it implemented. The system speaks to suppressing crime, where every advance with one cohort of young men helps to get an additional advance with the next cohort. Crime is contagious. And incarceration is a sure part of the formula.
Suppression is not motivation -- the lead-off claim is not supported because the whole of the environment had changed.
Illiteracy among minority youth also declined substantially. That had always been the leading predictor for violent crime.
If you get a chance, Bill Bratton gave a beautiful talk at his appointment announcement. When it gets up for online video, it is worth digging out. He believes in democracy and in mankind. He found a way to remake NYPD to again be "Your Police," which was the title of a kids' book he found when he was 9 years old.
de Blasio ??? We could be seeing another Franklin Delano Roosevelt with this man. He won every demographic tranche in the New York mayoral primary and general election. Every age group, every race, every income level, both major political parties.
It's too early for 2016, but by 2020 de Blasio will be a major national figure with a standing similar to Bill Clinton today. And his prime issue is inequality, like Pope Francis all leftists. He was born in 1961 so he will be perfect for two terms in 2021-2029.
We get through the 2016 election and there is a wide, clear road ahead.