on crime. it s a complete joke. john: back to your idea on the jumping, fare jumping, weapons in the possession, often people commit the little crimes commit the big crimes as well. eric adams has a new plan yesterday, part of the modified plain clothes police unit, neighborhood safety teams, checkpoints at busses and subway and streets, people are thankful for. 30 seconds left here, is this a plan you think will work? he seems to have the commitment. we can absolutely reduce violent crime in our urban communities if we embrace our broken windows theory, getting the criminals off the street but we are only one component, law enforcement is only one component of our criminal justice system. we need to make sure that these violent criminals are getting high bond amounts so cannot get over and over again, and don t get a ninth one, and the
of new violence in new york city that officials are trying to stem. the new mayor just announced his plan to try to curb violent crime but critics are voicing concern over part of the plan and that s the bringing back of the controversial plain clothes police unit. it s dismantled in 2020. the mayor reacting this morning. i know how unfair and abusive that unit was because i testified in federal court and the judges ruling acknowledged my testimony. police officers will have a modified version of police uniform apparel. they will be better trained. we will use technologies with cameras to video every interaction and i m going to make sure the right officers are assigned there to go after those who are dangerous gangs and carrying guns in my city. let s discuss both sides of
even more to keep things quiet and made a date to do it. $1,500. quhaz that? $1,500 i have on me. the next day, officers secretly trailed magdi leaving his home, driving on the freeway, and pulling into this home depot parking lot, the meeting point chosen by magdi. everybody s out of sight, except you. everybody s out of sight, plain clothes, unmarked vehicles, except us, the two of us. i m no police officer, but this is starting to feel like fun. oh, definitely fun. it s a rush. i would do it all over again. prosecutor sonia balleste was nearby, watching it all unfold. tell me what that was like. nerve-racking. it s exhilarating. did you see magdi? not at first. but soon enough, he came into view. the undercovers approached his car. what s up [bleep]? what s going on?
care of some of those quality of life issues that really concern people in new york. molly: there is a new police commissioner coming in, a new mayor coming in. do you have confidence in this new leadership, hopes for this new leadership team? well, i absolutely have hope, and i don t think, quite frankly, it can get worse. you mentioned that the 2021 numbers are worse than 2020, but they re also worse than 2019. and so 50% enclose in murder since increase in murder since the new bail law took effect, double the number of shootings since that took effect in january 2020. we need governor hochul and the democratic-controlled legislature to take action here. we also need the new mayor to reinstate the nypd plain clothes unit which is responsible for getting gangs and drugs and guns off our streets, and we need to make sure that we reinstate the funding that the city council cut. it was one-sixth of the nypd.
cooper, bill maher. i made him famous for this spat we had. if the mayor cared about what is best for the city, he would talk about the things we agreed upon in the meeting. he didn t want to discuss that, martha. he wants the hype. martha: he says he wants to bring this unit back. listen to what he said. he said i was elected. this is what i ran on and i m going to follow-through on that because that s what the people of new york city asked me to do. watch this. i said i was going to reinstitute an anti gun unit and plain clothes. voters voted on that. they will have their body cameras on on every interaction, we ll use precision policing to identify the gang members. we remove the precinct level plain clothes unit. that was a bad decision. martha: since that unit was disbanded, we ve seen homicides almost double in new york city. he s saying i want a safe city.