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Speaking as a native NYer.
A lot of voters remember the 1960s-1980s. Crime was rampant and street muggings were common. That was before we got rid of lead in gasoline. The 1980s were completely crazy, with Reagan era homeless camps all over, plus Reagan inspired Crack Wars. Add in Ethan Patz being kidnapped off the street and you had Fear City.
Another problem is that after 9/11 a lot of older cops who would normally have hung in for the thirty year pension quit and were replaced by rookies who saw themselves as anti-terror troops, no peace officers. Back in the day, the more experienced cops would teach the rookies to interact with the community; now the older cops are frustrated Punisher wannabes.
It's unfortunate that they forget the context of the 60s-80s. The government and Robert Moses bulldozed entire ass communities to build freeways through NYC, and then displaced those folks into the projects. There's a lot more detail to it and other factors (like redlining) than that, but it should hardly come as a shock that destroying the wealth of entire communities really didn't work out great a couple decades down the line.
Left out the part where white ppl left the cities to their racist as shit suburbs. Taking economic opportunities with them. Lead gas definitely had a negative effect but come on.
Right I guess Miles Davis getting his head cracked open in 59, shooting an unarmed 15 year old in 64, and them torturing Frank Lino in 62 was just community outreach
The NYPD have ALWAYS been corrupt punisher wannabes
You may not understand how statistics aren't 100%. We can regret and hate what happened in those two cases and still it can be considered 99% good with the understanding that people died from totally preventable terrible hateful events that had no purpose.
It's why the plural of anecdotes still isn't data.