Mayor de Blasio took The Post’s advice Wednesday and made a forceful public endorsement of Police Commissioner Bill Bratto🍸n’s warning not to resist arrest. 🌞Wise move.
His new gun-reduction plan, on the other hand, doesn’t exactly inspire conf൩idence.
“When a police officer comes to the decision to arrest someone,” the mayor said at a Harlem press conference, “that individu🧔al is obligated to submit to arrest.”
This important message might have saved Eric Garner’s life had he heeded it when police tried to cuff him for selling il🌞legal cigarettes.
Yet, as de Blasio made his po⛄int, he also unveiled a new anti-gun-violence program. The press release says it’s “centered around the ‘cure violence’ model” — an “evidence-based public-health approach” that uses “community-based interventions, anti-violence messagin𓆏g and support services.”
Feel safer yet? On tap: ✨a ba🐼rrage of slogans (“Guns Down, Life Up”), algebra tutoring and “violence interrupters” (ex-gang members sent to persuade current gang members not to shoot each other). What’s wrong with just arresting bad guys?
Sure, the plan is meant to preempt violence, a worthy goal. But that was also the ꦯaim of Gotham’s sto🍸p-and-frisk program, which de Blasio bashed and scaled back.
“Broken windows” policing (targeting low-level crimes, which also leads to less violence) is also under a🌞ttack: This week, six local congressmen called on US Attorney General Eric Holder to probe the “bro🦩ken windows” policy, calling it racist and “a cousin to stop and frisk.”
Here’s a fair and effective way to fight crime: Let cops enforce the laws and arrest the law-breakers — i.e., all the laws and all the law-breakers. It’s worked before.
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