An uptick in crime during the pandemic has seen the new mayor, Eric Adams, get ‘tough on crime’ – but critics say he is ignoring the proven community methods that actually keep the city safe
The NYPD shifted away from broken windows-style policing amid Black Lives Matter protests after the death of Eric Garner, who was choked to death by police after being targeted for selling loose cigarettes in 2014. His death was a stark intersection between broken windows policing and anti-crime units – two central components of Adams’ plan.
The mayor at the time, Bill de Blasio, made historic investments to coordinate and expand existing networks of non-profits working to reduce violence through intervention and prevention. His administration built out the Crisis Management System, the city-coordinated network of anti-violence groups, and NeighborhoodStat, a program that allowed public housing residents to set priorities around quality-of-life issues and hold city agencies accountable for delivering.
“In those neighborhoods that have already been high needs, when you take away resources, when you take away access to food, when kids can’t go to school, when you put all those things together, it really creates this recipe for community violence,” said Hailey Nolasco, the director of community-based violence prevention at the Center for Court Innovation.
Adams promised to combine more policing with enhanced social services and investments in community-based initiatives.Indeed, Adams has proposed increasing the NYPD’s operating budget by more than $180m, to $5.6bn. Much of the increase will go to paying for more overtime and for the revamped anti-gun teams.
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