“This is Not the End of Cities,” Cities are the Engines of Democracy, Innovation, and Growth and Schools Play a Major Role.
Former NYC mayor Giuliani at the Republican National Convention (RNC) railed against democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and painted a picture of a dystopian nation. In reality over the last thirty years “major crimes,” in New York City, the reminder of the nation and other parts of the world have dropped, dropped sharply.
Criminologists, sociologists and journalists are proffering reasons, many, many reasons, without any agreement.
In New York City the decline in the homicide rate has been incredible.
.Since 1990, major crimes [in New York City] have fallen 81.9% in a period that spanned the administrations of four mayors, both Republican and Democratic … Despite last year’s jump [2019], murders were still 85.9% below 1990 levels.
Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg pointed to “broken windows policing” and “stop and frisk,” hundreds of thousands of men of color detained, searched and questioned by the police.
In August, 2013 Federal Judge Shira Scheindlin declared the practice of “Stop and Frisk” unconstitutional.
It is important to recognize the human toll of unconstitutional stops. While it is true that any one stop is a limited intrusion in duration and deprivation of liberty, each stop is also a demeaning and humiliating experience. No one CONTINUE READING: “This is Not the End of Cities,” Cities are the Engines of Democracy, Innovation, and Growth and Schools Play a Major Role. | Ed In The Apple