Heather MacDonald

The FBI has started collecting data on this and it just goes up and up and up.

There's no improvement in New York.

The drugstores still have things under plexiglass.

And that is, you have to have security of property.

You have to be able to walk to the subways and not worry about getting pushed into the tracks or into a subway car or down the stairs by a lunatic who should not be there with a criminal record of a dozen to two dozen to three dozen arrests.

Those criminals are not being put in prison for the same reason as everything else, disparate impact.

The criminal justice system has decided it would rather not put anybody in jail than put blacks in jail disproportionately, notwithstanding that, sadly, their crime rates justify exactly that disproportion.

And a lot of people are just going to say, this is not necessary anymore.

we should not accept that this degree of crime, of property theft, of disorder, of threat, is a normal part of city life.

Rudolph Giuliani in the 90s, he struck back against that assumption.

All the criminologists had said, oh, well, we just have to accept that America is a violent place and you can't do anything about lowering crime.

Even the police used to say that.

The FBI's

Annual Crime Report, the Uniform Crime Reports, had a disclaimer throughout the 80s saying, well, we all know the police can't do anything about lowering crime because that's because of racism and inequality.

And Giuliani and Bratton said, nope, sorry, we're lowering crime.

The police are going to bring safety.

And it worked.

And we've forgotten that lesson.

We forgot the lesson that enforcement is a way to...

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