(Via Instapundit) Yeah, I’m just going to skip going into NYC for, oh, about a decade or so:
All summer long, then-candidate Bill de Blasio pulled no punches in his opposition to aggressive policing — in particular, to stop-and-frisk — and so the principal question going into his mayoralty was this: When it comes to public safety, did he believe his own rhetoric?
Turns out, Bill’s a believer.
He made that clear enough last week, standing super-tall with all the usual suspects — plus, ominously, Police Commissioner Bill Bratton — to announce not only that the city is rescinding its appeal of last year’s discredited federal-court stop-and-frisk ruling, but that it’s unilaterally adopting policies that over time stand to make the city much less safe.
Continue reading NYC continues its slow slide off of the beam. :shrug: Ehh, they chose their fate.