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The Dick Morris Show Presented by Patriot Gold Group
Michael Levine | 01-05-25
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Headlines detailing the stabbing of a man in Queens, the selling, setting a flame of a woman in Brooklyn, and the horrifying New Year's Eve assault where a man with shove duds and the tracks have become unsettlingly common. With felony assaults up 55% since 2019 and 10 subway murders alone in 24, it's no exaggeration to say the system has become a crucible of peril. So despite well-intentioned efforts by city officials, including increased police presence, outreach teams, and even national guard patrols, violence persists unabated. Faced with this alarming trend, the time-tested broken windows theory emerges as the most logical and practical solution. Take it from there Mike. Well friend, I think that you've witnessed something that I couldn't have imagined even five or ten years ago, which is the total abandonment of any sane safe transportation in New York City subways. I started writing New York City subways in 1963. I was nine years old. I wrote them alone at nine. Many young people wrote them alone at nine. Today's a thought of allowing a nine-year-old in the subway alone. It's impossible. So there was one theory during the last 30 years that seemed to create a system of safety and security in New York City. That was called the broken windows theory. I wrote a book about it and it is that minor infractions must be confronted immediately or they propel into much much greater problems and that is what we've seen. Now we're at a place where it is so dire. I mean no one in their right mind rides the subways in New York City unless they have to, right? And many people have to, but it is unthinkable what's become of New York and of course I blame more the voters than I do the governor or the mayor. We get, you know, you know this better than anyone dick. You're the smartest guy in politics. By far we get the government we vote for. Elections do indeed have consequences. The members of my hometown, the society, voted for Mr. de Blasio, not once, but twice. They can make a mistake once. It's unbelievable. I mean they must have suicidal instincts. So if this is the city they want, if this is the way they want to live, then keep voting the way they have been voting. I don't know what else to say. It's it's unsustainable. Did Rudy pick up your, that system from you or did you hear from him? Because he used that the broken yonder theory. Neither. He picked it up from a criminologist named James Q Wilson and George Kelling who wrote it back in August of 1982. It actually was written by UCLA professors at the time in Los Angeles and Giuliani and Bratton. It worked. It worked well. It didn't work well. It worked miraculously. It worked miraculously in about four weeks. You remember squeegee men, my friend? Yes, I do. Where you would park in Midtown Manhattan in broad daylight, 10 menacing men would jump on your car and then respectfully ask for a gratuity. And stand in front of your car wouldn't let you move until you gave him the right the Willis Avenue bridge right by the McDonald's that used to stop all the time. Not for me. They looked at me and they went the other way. But you know what happened with that was Hillary and Al Sharpton put the kibosh to that for other reasons in Harlem when they would stop people at midnight. You had Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg had stopped in frisk and the city seemed to work fairly well. The crime was in, it is so common now that there is crime in the subways in New York. I feel like if in January no one has burnt alive on a subway they will have a press conference announcing the great job they've done. It's unbelievable. It replaces central heating. That's horrible and I ride the subway. I ride the I used to ride it all the time. So it really is time to revive the broken window theory. It is in my mind it's also time to revive common sense and the first principles of government protect your citizens. I mean my god almighty why this shouldn't be clear to anyone over the age of 10 is beyond me. Just common sense. Bored with your boring cardio? Stop pedaling that snooze cycle to nowhere's bill and try some cardio that's actually fun. Supernatural fitness available on Metacrest isn't that right Jane Fonda. Cardio will never be boring again. Sweat to the beat of thousands of chart-topping songs inside stunning virtual landscapes. That's your stationary bike. Can't do that. Visit GetSupernatural.com and join the next business revolution. Supernatural VR fitness only on Metacrest in T4T. This episode is brought to you by Lifelock. The New Year brings new health goals and wealth goals. Protecting your identity is an important step. Lifelock monitors millions of data points per second. 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The Broken Windows Theory and the theory about making sure that you catch repeat criminals. Stop and frisk. Stop and frisk in Broken Windows. That was Ray Kelly into crimes in the New Year's City. And you need to bring both of those back. Stop and frisk was killed by the courts because it wasn't done well and you could do it in a way where it would be legal and constitutional and not sit bound to be racist. But after a policy was designed by Rudy and by Mayor Bloomberg that passed that test, the court threw it out. And then the new administration of the Blasio had no interest in making it work so they didn't make any of the changes the court recommended and the process was completely dropped. That's why they get voted in. The people that want it, they don't want it. That's why crime has increased. So in New York, the criminals were voting them in. So those two proposals, Broken Windows and Stop and Frisk, were absolutely the solution to crime and then the crime problem got unsolved because of the politicians and the courts. Wasn't that big with Ray Kelly? Stop and frisk. Very big. And it looked like Stop and Frisk might be coming back because Mayor Adams in his campaign talked about that but nobody had the guts to do it. That's exactly right, Dick. You're, you've hit on it. The society, New York City society, no longer has either the will or the capacity. Remember, when Rudy Giuliani was mayor, there were 40,000 New York City police officers. Today, that number is down to 33,000. And it's diminishing each year. The truth is the city doesn't have the will or the capacity, right, to do what is necessary to regain the safety and security of the New York City subways. The city doesn't have enough Republicans. That's what it is. Well, and listen, Republicans have a far better record on this, but they're not without fault. I mean, it's outrageous. It's outrageous. And the citizens are to more to blame than the everyone sits around and complains about the governor and mayor. I want to talk about the citizens that continue to vote for these imbeciles who have suicidal urges for a society. I don't know what to say. Their suicidal urges are fine. It's the homicidal ones that I don't like. Yeah, we need more people like, like Rudy. That's what we need. I don't know who the next mayor of Curtis, maybe? Well, thank you, Mike. I really appreciate you coming on and reminding us of this policy. Thank you, Mike.