about 25 years. it is a problem but it's not the core of the problem. bactrim the 20 years of the peace during giuliani and bloomberg administration of police commissioner ray kellyanne bill bratton who had forces out on the street identifying people with guns and arresting them before they could do violence. mayor adams is going to try to reconstitute that anti-crime units. he is going to need a lot of political support to do that. but joe biden and the rest of the democrats by and large do not talk about criminal policing on the streets. the big question is, do the cops have the political support have the elected democrats questioner that includes a democratic progressive prosecutors like alvin bragg and mcadam or qui in queens. still insist their job is not really prosecuting crime but doing something to help the social welfare of the people in new york. that is not their job. so the police i think are still wondering whether they