Not only Frank James’ incompetence, but also a jamming pistol, prevented the shooting that resulted in a massacre, which resulted in 10 gunshot wounds on a New York subway car on Tuesday. terrorism and fearhowever, it is not measured only by deaths.
An event that has no direct precedent in the history of the New York subway, concerns that the city lives for him increase in violence and gun crimes. The trend has practically been recorded since the start of the pandemic all major cities United States of America and it is not more violent in New York, but has acquired a larger dimension for a series of events in the most meditative of metropolises. high profile events
Loess data and most importantly, detectssuggests that security in the city has derailed. he mFar from the violent figures of the ’80s and ’90s but in a recent Quinnipiac University survey less than half Percentage of New Yorkers surveyed said they felt it’s safe to use the subway. All three-quarters of those surveyed said that crime is a very serious problem; this is the highest rate since 1999 when the question was included in the survey.
Recovery of real and perceived security is the main goal set. Eric Adams ex-police officer who won the municipal elections with the “law and order” campaign. But Adams’ proposals, nominally and financially in the center increase police response is far from reaching consensus on the issues. In fact, they are the subject of intense debate and criticism.
Data
In first 100 days of tenure You are the man Crimes I uploaded multiple 44% According to data from the New York Police Department: There were almost 50% more robberies, 17% more rapes, and 8.4% more firearms incidents than in the same period last year.
In public transport The deterioration became even more pronounced, and by April 10, two days before shooting, things had already escalated. more than 68%. Before Tuesday, none aroused more concern than the plight of a 40-year-old woman who died after being pushed onto the tracks by a man. homeless with mental problems.
actions of the mayor
Just nine days before this event, Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul said:the ubiquitous presence of the police in the subway”, One of the main arteries of New York life Number of passengers still below 40% before the pandemic. thousand agents already joined the patrols 472 network stationsalso where installed around 10,000 security cameras (Some of them didn’t work out on Tuesday’s shoot, to be exact, and the agents patrolling the 36th Street station in Brooklyn’s Sunset Park didn’t help.)
In February, Adams and Hochul also presented another plan aimed at: remove nearly a thousand poor from stations and trains those who took refuge there. And the mayor started it too anti-gun units (capped 1800 so far) and rebooted fighting petty crimes affecting “quality of life” in a strategy that some have seen echoes of the controversial “broken windows” policy applied for mayor Rudy Giuliani, effective in reducing crime but hindered by punishment or prosecution abuse and discrimination especially minorities.
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The mayor’s campaigns are getting the thumbs up. Richard Abornminister Citizen Crime Commission New York City, who argued in a phone call that Adams “acted somehow” clever”. But they have also been met with deep rejection by progressives, activists and groups working with the homeless.
Critics include: angel diazis a lawyer and lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in the intersection of technology and civil rights and liberties. “Probably the mayor and the police will use this opportunity to ask for more funds, but the truth is, New York is already the city with the most police in terms of agencies surveillance systems y none of this served to stop this attack”, Díaz points out in a phone call. “Empowering them will have a highly negative impact on the communities that use the subway on a daily basis.”
same claim Alex LifeProfessor of sociology at Brooklyn College. “Having more agents means more mass criminalization of some of the most vulnerable populations in the city: the poor sleeping on the subway, those who enter without paying, or the noisy youth”, warns in another telephone interview “end of police control” the author also secures the homeless by uniting them in his own home. speech and violence “the mayor continues confusing issues. “Homeless people in the subway do not use gun violence. What Adams did by turning the problem over to the police, cover up mistakes city in its responsibilities provision of basic social services“, dice.
The mayor argues his plan combines the police element with community-based programs, but Vitale and Díaz denounce the plan. lousy budget imbalance between the two. ” 99% of resources go to the policewith a budget of 11,000 million dollars and only 1%, less than 100 million in dollars, community strategies”, emphasizes Vitale.
Suggestions are put on the table. not civilians and armed police those who form teams that will exclusively respond to emergencies or crises. And facing those who question whether community solutions will work, Díaz said, “the truth is, never tested, they were never really funded”.