Interview · moment 4 of 12
Why Crime Went Down in New York (and Chicago Comparisons)
from Least Likely Cop · #114
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6 minGuest
Bo argues locking up gang members via RICO, not any one mayor, drove down crime, contrasts NYPD clearance rates with Chicago's, and rails against Black Lives Matter for ignoring Chicago shootings of Black children while focusing on police shootings.
- 10:26New York Police Academy had a height requirement for officers.
- 10:40Tim spotted a burglar on a fire escape while looking off the Academy roof and chased him down.
- 11:11Tim volunteered as a decoy cop in the early 1970s and was mugged, stabbed, and shot at around 500 times.
- 11:34A leg and ankle injury in Perris, California forced Tim to retire from the NYPD before he could get locked up himself.
- 12:30Homicide clearance rates in New York used to be around 85%, compared to Chicago's current 10% rate where 90% of murders go unsolved.
- 12:54In the 1970s, New York had 2,000 to 2,200 murders a year and hundreds of thousands of robberies, with entire blocks burning and drug dealing rampant.
- 13:52Tim credits the crime reduction in New York to locking up large numbers of people and getting them off the streets.
- 15:01Chicago has had 5,500 murders in the last 10 years, more than Kabul, Afghanistan, and could use federal RICO charges against gang members.
- 15:26Obama, from Chicago, never addressed the city's gang violence but politicians react immediately to any questionable cop shooting.
- 15:41Seven-year-old girls sitting on porches in Chicago are being shot in the head, yet activists don't demonstrate against the African Americans committing these murders.
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