06-18-2021, 06:14 PM
Mr645 wrote:
No, we're not at the levels before Cuomo was in charge and made huge improvements in safety in the city. But with the defunding of police and the changes driven by DeBlasio last 18 months the violence is increasing rapidly.
I'm not sure that it's what you are implying, but it's important to be careful about making cause and effect claims - in this case making a claim that reducing police funding caused an increase in homicides:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/homicide-sp...cle_inline
Though many of America’s biggest cities are run by Democrats, the rise in killings is a bipartisan problem. Homicides are rising at a double-digit rate in most of the big cities run by Republicans, including Miami, San Diego, Omaha, Tulsa, Okla., and Jacksonville, Fla., as well as in cities run by Democrats and in the two major cities run by Independents: San Antonio and Las Vegas.