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25 years of decline. in 2019 passed legislation that began the downward spiral and still at it. defund movement, a political hashtag that quickly was driving american policy, shows how politicians quickly jump on the bandwagon, came back to bite them on the rear-end, some still advocating defunding the police. some mayoral candidates in new york city, incredible crime rates, want to reduce the size of the force by another 2,000 officers. we lost 2,000 officers just the last year. bill brant, always a pleasure to have you on the broadcast, thank you so much for doing so. new book is called the profession: a memoir of community, race and as the author would pronounce it, the
police to come back and to keep their streets safe. everybody passes the buck. i m waiting for a leader to say we made a mistake. here s bill de blasio. listen to this. earlier in the month. what is happening right now the clearly at the instruction of the governor, the mta leadership is fear mongering. i ve never seen anything like it. people constantly saying something isn t safe when it is. martha: he s talking about the subways. he says the subways are safe in new york city. you know, it s happening all the time geraldo. that s why people are not taking the subways. that s why they have junker cars flooding the streets of manhattan because they re afraid to take the subway. former nypd bill commissioner bill brant has a new book out. it s called the profession. the last wave of gun violence
patrol supervisor. they sound worried. and i never thought we would be back where we were in the 70s demonstrator said calling for the death of cops, a mayor who sides with protesters. disparjed police officers. what happened on saturday is almost a logical result of four or five months of rhetoric. but for those who say it s not the rhetoric, it s the behavior of the police, ie, the eric garner take down video, that s causing this. we had bill brant before that, the fact is you didn t see this response. and during that time, they were reducing crime by 80%. bill de blasio is basically