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It’s no secret that New York is undergoing a crime wave, with violent crime rising at alarming rates. What’s also not a secret is the steps that are needed to reverse this onslaught and return the city to the state of safety for which it rightfully had become so proud. The "New York Miracle" that brought crime rates to record lows during the 1990s and kept them there for the ensuing 20 years was not a miracle at all, but rather a series of measures that experience has proven reduce crime. The undoing of some of these policies by officials as part of the State’s so-called bail r...

Later, the living author. if there is a broken window, we need to fix it. what we did not say is we should incarcerate the kid who threw the rock. we can call the department of buildings, other services. i have been in government for 20 plus years delivering safety and justice as a prosecutor and using the full spectrum of government resources. so, yeah, we don't want broken windows, disorder. but there are so many ranges of services we can provide to really address it. look at the status quo. we have been doing this for years. we have an uptick in gun violence. we have domestic violence on th...

And she'll have a lot to tackle. commissioner saffer, you seat headlines and the numbers. what does the incoming commissioner need to do to bring down crime in this city? >> she has a high hill to climb. what we accomplished in the late 90s and early 200s has been destroyed by the deblasio administration. they are letting parolees out paroled on murder only to murder again. she says she believes in broken windows which is very important. pay attention to small crimes as well as watch crimes. but it will be a tough job. jon: broken windows policing is the term for going after small of crimes li...

Howard safer joins us now. thanks, commissioner, for your time. you heard the president. you heard him again as we played a clip there. is he clearly laying out a way to combat gun crimes in this city? it's a bigger picture than that. we just had a young women, a graduate student pushed on the subway tracks and killed. she was not pushed by a gun. is he addressing the root of the problem? getting to the root of the crisis? >> he's not. what we have is an unpopular president realizing through his polls that the majority of americans want crime reduced. visiting with a popular mayor that was ele...

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