De Blasio's is imitating Dinkins in the Disaster of Obama.

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Say Hello to the Goddam Squeegee Boys again!

Say good-bye to the great city Giuliani remade. 

Commissioner William Bratton used "Fixing Broken Windows" to great success when he was part of Giuliani's administration! m/r

De Blasio's Policing Dilemma by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal 28 July 2014

The Gotham mayor must decide whether to listen to his police commissioner or the New York Times.

New York mayor Bill de Blasio is facing the most momentous decision of his still-new mayoralty: whether to take his public safety cues from the New York Times editorial board and sundry anti-cop activists, or from his police commissioner, William Bratton. Pressure has mounted on de Blasio from his base over the last week to repudiate the strategy known as broken-windows policing. That pressure follows the death of a man whoresisted arrest for selling untaxed cigarettes, an arrest (minus the death) that exemplifies broken-windows or public-order enforcement. De Blasio has been on vacation since last Sunday, but now that he is back in City Hall, his handling of the growing controversy over Eric Garner’s death will reveal what the city will be like over the next four years.

The anti-cop forces have shifted the focus of attention from the tactics used to subdue Garner after he resisted arrest—which is where attention should stay—to the very enforcement of misdemeanor laws themselves, such as the one against illegal cigarette sales. The New York Times’s lead editorial on Saturday, “Broken Windows, Broken Lives,” exemplifies this opportunistic turn against quality-of-life enforcement: “How terrible it would be if Eric Garner died for a theory, for the idea that aggressive police enforcement against minor offenders . . . is the way to a safer, more orderly city.” The Times suggested that the total number of arrests last year—394,539—was too high, without enlightening us as to what a proper number would be. (Connoisseurs of the “stop, question, and frisk” debates will recognize this tactic.) Taking up its favorite racial theme, the Timesclaimed that broken-windows policing has “pointlessly burdened” young black and Hispanic males with criminal records. The link between broken-windows policing and greater safety is only “hypothetical,” the editorial announced, ignoring evidence to the contrary. The paper ended with a condescending slight toward Bratton and an ultimatum for de Blasio: “Mr. Bratton should not be a once-innovative general fighting the last war. Mr. de Blasio was elected on a promise of being a transformative mayor who would recognize the times we live in and respect the communities whose residents fear the police. Now is the time to show it.” (Those “communities,” by the way, whom the Times claims “fear the police,” arefilled with law-abiding residents who only feel safe when the police are around.)

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