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Re-Fund the Police: Harlem Businesses Want de Blasio to Bring Back Plain Clothes Cops

  Last year, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio made a show of de-funding the NYPD to the tune of $1 billion, which included dismantling the department’s plain clothes Anti-Crime Unit. Now, with crime and…


The Failures of Bill de Blasio: Crime Becomes an Issue in New York City Electoral Politics Once Again

How much crime will New Yorkers accept before they actually demand that criminals do jail time and laws are enforced in their city again? We may be about to find out. Eight years of rule…


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New York’s Mayor de Blasio Fights Crime By Aiming at Law-Abiding Citizens…Again…Still

By Larry Keane For New York City’s Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio, the gun is the problem, not the criminal. That’s why he focused on New York City’s crime problem by restricting law-abiding citizens’ ability…





New York City Black Leaders Call on Mayor to Put More Cops Back on the Streets

Occupy City Hall in New York City. Demonstrators advocating for the New York City Police Department to be defunded by $1 billion. As we’ve noted time and again since the entire ‘defund the police’ movement…



Faced With Failed Policies and Soaring Crime Rates, Mayors Do What They Know Best: Blame Guns

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) By Larry Keane Big city mayors must have a standard checklist in the back of their press briefing binders. That page would have one entry…