Bill De Blasio's Crime: The Rise Of Crime In New York City

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When New York City had a new leftist mayor, many foreshadowed there would be a significant rise in crime spanning over a few years. The new mayor, Bill de Blasio, was to blame. De Blasio wanted to reform city measure, but he went about it in a different way. De Blasio talked and listen more to ex-cons on this matter, putting their options and advice to the forefront of his mind. Many of them rallied for reducing police stratagems to reduce New York City’s crime rates. It was believed that de Blasio agreed with this idea because of his thoughts on some of the tactics New York City’s police officers used. De Blasio fought against “Stop and Frisk”, because of how they unjustly discriminated against young, African American males and put their safety at risk. To the surprise of many, de Blasio had brought lower crime rates to New York City. They were lower than the crime rates of the past two mayors of New York City. When Mayor Mike Bloomberg was in office for twelve years, the murder rate had actually risen four times higher than normal. Even though murder rates fluctuates, de Blasio kept them all down. De …show more content…

The baseline for this argument can be given by looking at America, “America is home to 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s prisoners. More than two millions Americans are locked up at any given time, more than half of them in state prisons. This is costly, at $29,000 per federal inmate per year and more for state prisoners—about the price of sending each one to an Ivy League university” (W.). Partially all state prisoners are serving time in jail for non-violent crimes. When these prisoners are released, they struggle and fight for jobs. However, most of them lose this battle and end up right back where they started in prison. Messrs and Paul Booker introduced the Record Expungement Designed to Enhance Employment Act to law on July 8th. This act is mostly known as “The Redeem

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