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NYC CRIME DOWN WITH MORE POLICE ON BEAT, PROVING FAILURE OF EARLIER 'DEFUND THE
POLICE' TACK: EXPERT


MAYOR ERIC ADAMS, A FORMER NYPD CAPTAIN, HAS CREDITED CITY POLICE FOR DECLINE IN
VIOLENT CRIMES

By Michael Lee Fox News
Published January 22, 2024 4:00am EST
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New York City experienced a banner year in the fight against rising violent
crime, flooding the streets with new teams of police officers despite fierce
resistance from law enforcement reform groups.

New York City murder numbers dropped 12% in 2023 compared to the previous year
while shootings fell 25%, according to numbers released by the New York City
Police Department, with all five boroughs experiencing a decline in shootings.

The good news was publicized in a recent op-ed by the Wall Street Journal, which
noted that New York City Mayor Eric Adams has credited the city's more
aggressive approach to policing as being responsible for the enhanced safety.

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty
Images)

Much of that increased police presence has come from the city's Neighborhood
Safety Teams, a program that Adams launched in 2022 to replace plainclothes
teams that were disbanded in the city in the wake of the 2020 George Floyd
protests. Those officers have been credited with seizing thousands of illegal
firearms throughout the city in 2023 through stops of pedestrians the officers
suspected of being armed and dangerous, the Wall Street Journal report noted.

The officers are required to have a reasonable suspicion before they approach an
individual, which could include a tip from a neighbor or directly witnessing
aggressive behavior. They also wear body cameras and are required to question
every suspect before conducting a pat down.

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But the Neighborhood Safety Teams have also faced fierce criticism from some
groups, who accuse the officers of disproportionately targeting minority
residents.

But Charles "Cully" Stimson, a senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation,
argued that many communities plagued by crime would welcome an increase in
police presence.

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"They want more police in their communities, they don't want fewer police,"
Stimson told Fox News Digital. "They want police who look like them, police who
they know, police who they trust, but they want the criminals out."

An NYPD officer sits in a marked vehicle. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

One such group calling to roll back the Neighborhood Safety Teams in New York is
Communities United for Police Reform, which, according to the Wall Street
Journal, cited an independent audit of the teams that showed many stops came
with no good reason for suspicion and that the data indicated racial bias, with
97% of stopped suspects being Black or Hispanic.

Stimson argued that citing such statistics can be misleading, noting that the
demographics of neighborhoods impacted by rising crime are prone to be populated
by minorities.

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"It's an uncomfortable but basic reality that Blacks commit a disproportionate
number of violent crimes and crimes in general. You'll never hear Communities
United for Police Reform admit that, but it's true," Stimson said. "The sad
reality is that the other side of that coin is that a disproportionate number of
murder victims in the inner city are Black men who are killed by Black men."

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The Wall Street Journal also pushed back against the notion of bias, noting that
the 34 special units operate specifically in New York City's most high-crime
neighborhoods, which also are disproportionately Black and Hispanic areas of the
city.

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"The fact that these neighborhoods are 97%, 95% Black, and 97% of the people
they stop temporarily are Black or Hispanic, that makes sense," Stimson said.

For his part, Adams won his 2021 bid for mayor largely on a public-safety
platform and often cites that some of the city's most crime-ridden areas
supplied the bulk of his votes. A two-decade veteran of New York City law
enforcement himself, Adams celebrated the city's officers after the release of
the 2023 numbers.

"Your officers took nearly 6,500 illegal firearms off our streets in 2023,"
Adams said, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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NYPD Crime Scene Unit vehicle (Peter Gerber)

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Meanwhile, Stimson took issue with groups attempting to reform American
policing, noting New York City's new strategy is yet another example of the
constant evolution of tactics and police departments across the country are
constantly engaged in voluntarily.

"Who isn't for police reform?" Stimson said. "Police departments, there's 18,000
of them across the country, have been and are in the process of reforming
themselves every single day."



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