Radio Derb — October 12th, 2013
John Lindsay returns to New York City
That all
happened
in New York City, which has a mayoral election coming up in November.
Way out in the lead is a chap named Bill de Blasio. Since he's likely
to be the next
Mayor, let's take a look at how that will affect law enforcement.
Those biker cops notwithstanding, under the current Police
Commissioner Ray Kelly, who's been running the New York Police
Department since 2002,
New York's had one of the cleanest city police forces. It's sure been a
lot cleaner than it was in the late 1960s, when the general situation
was the one
quite accurately portrayed in the 1973 Al Pacino movie Serpico.New York is also a lot safer in recent years. Rudy Giuliani, who became Mayor in 1994, instituted aggressive and systematic policing, and city crime rates dropped like a stone. They've gone on dropping ever since, current Mayor Michael Bloomberg having maintained Giuliani's law enforcement policies. Major crime in New York is now at all-time lows. This year's homicide numbers are down at levels not seen since the 1950s.
Unfortunately aggressive policing in a big American city mostly means being aggressive towards blacks and Hispanics, because they commit most of the crime. Blacks alone committed 80 percent of all shootings in New York city in 2011, nearly 70 percent of all robberies and 66 percent of all violent crime, though they're only 23 percent of the city's population. Whites, who are 35 percent of New York's population, committed a little over one percent of all shootings, less than five percent of all robberies, and five percent of violent crime overall in 2011. That's according to crime reports filed with the NYPD by victims and witnesses, usually minorities themselves. So where are police supposed to concentrate resources?
That means, though, that if you're a race hustler, or a liberal who takes the race hustlers seriously, there is much not to like about New York City's current law enforcement regime.
That's where Bill de Blasio comes in … and likely, on current polling, will come in as Mayor next January. He's liberal, very liberal. Even by New York City standards, the guy is liberal. He's off-the-charts liberal. He took his honeymoon in Cuba, for crying out loud.
To call Bill de Blasio liberal is like calling Mao Tse-tung an "agrarian reformer" … which, come to think of it, is what a previous generation of liberals did call Mao Tse-tung. Try again: it's like calling Generalissimo Francisco Franco a conservative. It's like calling Charlie Sheen a fun-loving guy. It's like calling me politically incorrect. You get the idea.
So what will the New York Police Department look like under Mayor de Blasio? He's already told us he will dump Ray Kelly and get a new police commissioner. The race hustlers — characters like State Senator Eric Adams, who showed up in the Senate chamber in a hoodie earlier this year to honor Trayvon Martin — these guys hate Ray Kelly, so de Blasio hates him right along with them.
So what will the department then look like? Let me connect the dots for you. I mentioned the movie Serpico a minute ago. It concerns the very corrupt and dysfunctional New York City Police Department of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Who was the Mayor at that time? A chap named John Lindsay. So where was Lindsay politically? He was liberal, dear listener — very, very liberal. Just like Bill de Blasio!
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