NYPD boss Jessica Tisch and her rank and file hold scoring spectacular wins in opposition to crime, thanks in no small half to the division’s gang database.
But Zohran Mamdani is vowing to scrap it.
But extra grounds to hope he doesn’t turn out to be mayor.
Main crimes plunged 7% final month, vs. August 2024, the newest stats present — certainly it was total New York’s most secure August on document.
“Within the first eight months of the yr,” boasts Tisch, “the NYPD drove down taking pictures incidents and taking pictures victims to the bottom ranges” in metropolis historical past.
Subway crime has additionally hit “document lows, excluding the pandemic years.”
Tisch praises the gang database specifically: “A lot of the violence” over the previous couple of weeks in The Bronx “is gang-related. We all know who the gang members are, due to a Prison Group database. And know the place they function,” so “[we’re] going after them.” Bravo.
These gang-related information have lengthy confirmed very important, particularly when gang-on-gang assaults threaten to escalate.
This spring, Tisch credited it for serving to cops nab Tren de Aragua gangbangers who attacked police.
But since 2022, Mamdani has pushed to have it dismantled, siding with critics who declare it quantities to racial profiling, since most individuals in them are black or Hispanic.
D’oh: Most gangs are black and Hispanic; of course a gang database will mirror that.
Factor is, the victims of gang violence are virtually totally minorities.
So scrapping this instrument — denying cops crucial data to ID potential witnesses and suspects — will harm blacks and Hispanics most.
Crime victims are invisible males, ladies and kids to Mamdani & Co.: Who’re the true racists?
Nor will Mamdani’s pro-crime measures finish there: He says he’ll remove the NYPD’s elite Strategic Response Group; he gained’t add cops regardless of the pressure’s scarcity, however as a substitute shift assets away from policing to a brand new Division of Neighborhood Security that might depend on near-useless “violence interruption.”
On Tuesday, Mayor Eric Adams boasted of town’s latest crime-fighting successes, insisting, “Our public-safety plan is working.”
Nevertheless it’s assured to cease if Mamdani takes Metropolis Corridor.
