New York is but one of the major American cities reaping the benefits of the Great Racial Reckoning, post-George Floyd. As the American left intensify their campaign to abolish the police, America is witnessing the inevitable result.
Murders spiked by an astonishing 37% in major American cities in 2020. 2021 is showing every sign of getting even worse. So far, Minneapolis has seen a staggering 64% surge in homicides in 2021.
New York, post-Rudy Giuliani, had been one of America’s safest big cities. Had been. Because, suddenly, New York is starting to look more like it did in the “mean streets” 1970s – only without the flares and disco music. But then, New York replaced Giuliani with left-wing Mike Bloomberg, then former Sandinista activist Bill de Blasio, born Warren Wilhelm.
Of course, de Blasio doesn’t apparently see any problem with the new, post-police, high-murder Big Apple. New Yorkers beg to differ.
A worker at A2Z Smoke Shop on Eighth Avenue said bluntly, “It’s gone completely to s–t out there.”
“Times Square, Eight Avenue, it’s all s-?-t,” he said. “The homeless are everywhere, the stabbings, and now this shooting in broad daylight? Of course foot traffic is low.
“The mayor thinks everything is fine? Of course it’s fine. He has his own security. I don’t have security.
A recent shooting in Times Square – and de Blasio’s de blasé response – seems to have particularly galvanised New Yorkers.
Times Square workers are blasting Mayor Bill de Blasio’s claim that Saturday’s horror shooting won’t hurt tourism — saying their businesses have already taken a beating from the violence.
“You think the tourists are going to come back after a f–king shooting? If you were a tourist, would you come back after what happened Saturday?” a male waiter at Prime Catch on West 46th Street told The Post on Monday.
“Ciao bello[…]“You have a shooting in Times Square — who’s safe? Where’s the police? How did this happen in Times Square? It’s supposed to be 100 percent policed.”
Three innocent bystanders, including a 4-year-old girl waiting to go toy-shopping, were shot when an illegal CD peddler allegedly started firing at his brother during a dispute around 5 p.m., according to cops and law-enforcement sources.
The incident caused bloody mayhem in the famed Crossroads of the World, and the shooter is still in the wind
New York has already taken a beating in 2020, with the witless – some argue, criminal – COVID policies of de Blasio and governor Andrew Cuomo making New York, with New Jersey, one of the worst-hit US states.
Ciro Heta, manager of Tony’s Di Napoli on West 43rd Street, noted that local businesses were just starting to bounce back from the pandemic.
“Now that we’ve got the COVID under control, this will be a major problem going forward,” Heta said of the city’s reputation when it comes to crime.
“New York’s theaters, stadiums, museums are only just starting to open, but who wants to come to New York when something like this happens in the middle of the day?[…]if these shootings happen like this and people get knifed on the subway and pushed onto the tracks, we’re not going to come back like we used to.”
New York Post
New Yorkers might be able to take some comfort in the likelihood that de Blasio’s days as mayor are numbered, in no small part due to the fact that Democrat voters who put him in place are deserting the city in droves as their “progressive” policies bear deadly fruit. His increasingly likely replacement is Eric Adams, a Republican, tough-talking former cop who has stated that he will carry his own gun for protection if elected mayor.
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