NYC major crime complaints fell when cops took a break from ‘proactive policing’

I've lived in a few different major cities and NYC for the last decade, and I can definitely say I have never seen more broken, ineffective policing than here. It's truly ridiculous. Your experience, obviously, may vary. Multiple instances of police openly threatening citizens. Phones ripped out of hands and smashed onto the ground, for the mere crime of filming an interaction. During the BLM protests, every single act of instigation and provocation that I witnessed was started by the…

When you arrest or kill a drug dealer, many others come in and fight for his place creating more violence. This is known and shown by studies and every cop's experience ever. They know this and yet they still do it, causing more violence and chaos on the streets, more deaths and more imprisonments. They support keeping things criminalized because many would likely be out of a job, or certainly out of an easy, low-risk job in favor of more…