Idealism based on lies filled with inanity - New York City's Crime Disease

Liberalism is a deteriorating disease that diminishes all lives. Their solution to gang shooting is send in the social workers. m/r



New York City's Crime Disease by Heather Mac Donald, City Journal 14 August 2014



Bill de Blasio’s new initiative treats gun violence as a public-health problem.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio is turning to Chicago for lessons in how to combat Gotham’s rising gun violence—Chicago, where black teens kill each other at four times the rate as they do in New York. De Blasio and the city council will spend nearly $13 million on an initiative that treats gun violence primarily as a public-health problem, rather than a law-enforcement one, a concept championed by epidemiologist Gary Slutkin and implemented most famously in the Windy City. The new “Gun Violence Crisis Management System” will send former gang members and social workers into areas that have experienced recent shootings. The “crisis-management” teams contact feuding gang members and try to discourage retaliatory shootings. Equally central to the public-health concept, the teams refer gang members to case-management and other social programs, such as job-training, mental-health, and legal services—precisely the type of efforts that made up the city’s default response to crime before 1994, when the New York Police Department began seriously enforcing the law.

The violence-interrupter program is already operating as a pilot in five NYPD precincts; it will now be expanded to 14. Proponents attribute a 66 percent decrease in shootings in a small area of Crown Heights to the pilot effort. There’s reason to be skeptical about this claim, especially regarding the replicability of such alleged results city-wide. Chicago is simply not an encouraging model of crime reduction, to put it mildly. …

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