Cop: Public Safety NYC’s No. 1 Imperative

Under Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg, crime plummeted in Gotham, and investment and residents flocked to the city — but that all began to change when “Bill de Blasio, who had run a campaign highly critical of the police, became mayor,” recalls retired NYPD Detective James Coll at City Journal. While enjoying the fruits of his predecessors’ publicsafety efforts, de Blasio “gradually shifted the public narrative from highlighting the success of the NYPD to vilifying the department.” By 2020, the predictable result became impossible to ignore: a massive and deadly crime wave. The city must now reverse course with a new mayor. “If we are to maintain a prosperous and vibrant New York, public safety must once again become a top priority. Disparaging (and abusing) the police is a slippery slope to lawlessness, danger and chaos.”