'My sense is that, if the NYPD pulls back at all, it will be temporary and have little to no effect on NYC crime rates,' said one criminologist.
Former Milwaukee Police Chief Edward Flynn told Reuters in 2016 that he viewed his city's rise in violent crime as more likely attributable to health service cuts and a new state law allowing people to carry concealed weapons.
last month that the city of 8.6 million is on track to see its lowest number of homicides since the 1950s, although shootings increased 7 percent in the first half of 2019 compared with the same period in 2018. If anything, the NYPD has"deliberately been seeking to do less low-level enforcement, fewer stops, fewer frisks, arrest fewer people, replace arrests with tickets and citations, and as any good agency always does, minimize use of force," said David Kennedy, a professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and director of the National Network for Safe Communities, which seeks to reduce violence and strengthen trust with police.
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