How much crime will New Yorkers accept before they actually demand that criminals do jail time and laws are enforced in their city again? We may be about to find out. Eight years of rule under a social justice uber alles mayor whose default presumption is that the criminal justice is systemically racist and every accused criminal is a failure of a white supremacist society has finally had its inevitable effect.
Like so many other large urban areas, New York has been conducting an experiment in anti-policing over the last year and a half.