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Crime and Removal Impact
00:02:11
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| The politicians have elected their own voters. | |
| They've driven out the people who couldn't stand the taxes, the crime, the corruption, and you're left with people who can tolerate it. | |
| And the people who can tolerate it aren't necessarily going to be voting in a law-and-order technocrat anytime soon. | |
| Does the average New Yorker know how the murder rate has increased? | |
| I think so. | |
| Yes. | |
| It's hard to miss. | |
| I mean, the murder rate has gone up. | |
| I mean, the murder rate is pretty much isolated into certain, you know, high crime areas. | |
| But certainly people know that street crime is up, that... | |
| Homelessness and drug addicts are definitely more emboldened. | |
| You see this all over the place, people stealing from drug stores, general street violence is up, and a general sense of chaos and disorder is descended upon the city. | |
| And this is all by design, really. | |
| By the removal, the steady removal and alienation of the police from doing their job, which they had done quite well. | |
| This was all built, put into place by the progressive ascendancy, as I call it, of which Bill de Blasio is fruit, flower, and fragrance. | |
| So this was like 10 years in the making, at least. | |
| So does the average New Yorker, now that you tell me that the average New Yorker is aware of the increase in violent crime, if I ask the average New Yorker, do you hold Bill de Blasio in any way or in any important way responsible for this, what would the answer be? | |
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Waking Up in New York
00:03:39
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| Well, I think a lot of people, if they were honest, would say, yeah, he hasn't done a great job. | |
| You know, at the same time, there are people who are going to say, oh, no, no, no, it's because of structural inequalities and poverty. | |
| And, you know, the usual liberal balderdash we've been hearing since the 60s about root causes and, you know, the lack of opportunity. | |
| But I think if people were honest, they would have to, yeah, say, sure, Bill de Blasio and the movement that he represents has responsibility for this. | |
| But it won't affect their voting. | |
| Forgive me one second. | |
| It won't affect their voting. | |
| They'll still vote Democrat. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| They'll absolutely vote Democrat. | |
| I do believe that in the last year, people have woken up a bit to... | |
| And in the current primary campaign for the Democratic nomination, the candidates who are at least voicing a more sensible approach to law and order are at the top. | |
| I'm not saying that they're perfect, but the people who really want to abolish prisons, dismantle the police, they're not polling very well. | |
| People are waking up to this. | |
| Of course, you know, it doesn't take that many votes to win an election in New York City. | |
| But the people who are paying attention, I think, are kind of waking up a little bit. | |
| But the problem is, you know, as we know, you can have everybody vote one way. | |
| It doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to change the structure of Vegas. | |
| The liberals, the progressives... | |
| They have control of the city and its institutions, and resting it away from them is not going to be as easy as just one election. | |
| That's a good point. | |
| I mean, we saw this on the federal level in 2016. You can win an election. | |
| Yes, but the bureaucracy remains. | |
| That is exactly right. | |
| Right. | |
| What is the attrition rate in the New York City Police Department? | |
| You know, that's a very good question. | |
| I don't have that now. | |
| It's not as bad as it's been in some cities like Portland and Seattle and Minneapolis where people are just fleeing. | |
| We haven't seen, you know, de Blasio has managed the police department and he's never completely turned his back on them in the same way that some of these other mayors did. | |
| And I think they're adding people. | |
| They are adding people. | |
| I mean, New York City still has a fair amount of money to hire police officers, and it's a pretty good job, generally. | |
| But, yeah, I definitely think retirements are up. | |
| We're not at a crisis point yet in terms of staffing. | |
| And it's a very large department. | |
| All right. | |
| We're going to do a part two, but I want to remind everybody. | |
| Look, anything that Heather MacDonald writes the foreword to is obviously important. | |
| It's an important book, my friends. | |
| Seth Barron, The Last Days of New York, A Reporter's True Tale. | |
| It is up at DennisPrager.com. | |
| And I will have you back. | |
| Thank you, sir. | |
| Thank you. | |
| You're welcome. | |