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Commentary By Hannah E. Meyers

A Welcome Return to Proactive Policing in New York City

Public Safety Policing, Crime Control

The city’s leaders are beginning to consider the true complexities of crime, communities, and policing — the latter involving a delicate balance of trust, crime opportunities, and consequences.

New York City’s mayor and NYPD brass have decided it’s time to once again empower the police to proactively protect neighborhoods from danger and disorder.

Mayor Adams last week convened the NYPD commissioner, Keechant Sewell, and chief of department, Kenneth Corey, after an especially bloody weekend that left 29 New Yorkers wounded by gunfire. 

Far from being anomalous, this carnage highlighted a devastating trend: there have been 284 shooting victims in the Big Apple so far in 2022 compared to 151 victims at this time in 2019.

Continue reading the entire piece here at The New York Sun

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Hannah Meyers is director of the policing and public safety initiative at the Manhattan Institute.

This piece originally appeared in The New York Sun