JEEEEEEZZZZUUUUUSSSS Cortopassi, are you kidding me with this??????Cortopassi wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 8:00 amOk, I do not dispute what Giuliani did.
What I don't know, and what is more important (to me), is, did it materially improve the lives of the people in those areas?
Why do you think I live in NYC now? I can 100% guarantee you that I would not if Giuliani had not been elected as mayor, and crime continued as it was in the 1980s.
Spend 5 minutes online and look for evidence of the contrast between Then and Now (or Recently anyway). Look up crime statistics, "white flight" etc. Here's a great example for you: Bryant Park. It used to be a drug den that no sane person would enter unless they were suicidal. Now it's a beautiful midtown oasis with a skating rink, outdoor popup stores and awesome food concessions.
When it comes right down to it, I strongly suspect that for most people - the sane ones anyway, i.e. excluding de Blasio or the crazy Council members - virtue signaling by paying lip service to Black Lives Matter will take a back seat when they realize we are going back to the crime-ridden days of the 1980s, and they connect the dots and realize that reduced policing is how that happens.
In the 1980's, being "soft on crime" was a political death sentence, and crime-fighting was about the first 5 things on every successful politician's platform. Which should also tell you just what people think of having to live with crime, despite the odious media message that not wanting to live in a crime-ridden community makes you a racist. Remember the Willie Horton ads and what that did to Michael Dukakis? 4 months may be too short a time to effect that political shift, but all the same I bet that the Trump campaign will find a way to emulate that example. If they are successful, the Democrats will be crushed in November if they don't change their tune about policing. Which they won't.