The NYPD ‘Slowdown’ Is Unintentionally Benefiting The People
One of the most confusing political protests is currently taking place in New York City, and it is unintentionally benefiting average citizens.
Furious at embattled mayor Bill de Blasio, and at what Police Benevolent Association chief Patrick Lynch calls a “hostile anti-police environment in the city,” police officers are refusing to arrest or ticket people for minor offenses – such arrests have dropped off a staggering 94 percent, with overall arrests plunging 66 percent.
The protesting police have decided to make arrests “only when they have to.” In other words, the NYPD is abandoning their ‘Broken Window’ policies to anger the mayor, the very policies that is being protested by anti-brutality demonstrators.
It’s incredibly ironic that the police have chosen to abandon quality-of-life actions like public urination tickets and open-container violations, because it’s precisely these types of interactions that are at the heart of the Broken Windows polices that so infuriate residents of so-called “hot spot” neighborhoods.
So keep it
updown NYPD!! We’re enjoying a harassment free NYC.what the fuck is even going on
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