as the op-ed notes, we all know people who are progressive on just about every issue but they re afraid to ride the new york city subways right down stairs here at 30 rock. and want to know know they can safe in their day-to-day life. this is an intensely personal issue. crime stokes fear, and fear motivates voters. that s why i m convinced that in 22 and 24 we, democrats, need to make public safety a central issue. and you can have robust engaged public safety and homeland security without excessive force, without stop and frisk, and without choke holds. just ask bill bratton, chuck ramsay and a whole lot of other commissioners from blue cities in this country. crime is up percentage wise, a similar measure in republican leaning areas as the democrat
competition, technology, i was listening after widen nobody was talking about. he was on the tarmac on tuesday morning after the shock of the draft opinion on roe v. wade came out, he said a lot of very intelligent analytical things, he didn t say the one thing i think a lot of people wanted to hear, which is i will fight like hell to protect the women s right to choose. you know, it would really, really impressed me that you talk candidly about your popularity with new york voters diminished in your second term, you felt like you lost touch with voters in the street, and this is after you do what you did with stop-and-frisk, you did you did a lot of the policies things everybody wanted. and you won reelection by a huge margin but then your popularity waned and then for you to come out now and admit that, and say that, and say i made mistakes.
nobody can do the nypd s job by themselves. it has to be a team effort. the rank and file, the people who do the work have to believe they are being backed by one police plaza and the mayor. jon: stop and frisk was a policy that generated a lot of controversy. is there any form you have think that policy could be brought back in a way that legal and constitutional. it s not a policy, it s a tactic. it results in getting guns and drugs off the street. if they don t go back to stop and frisking constitutionally the way it s supposed to be done they won t accomplish what they want to accomplish. it s an important part of how we reef deuced crime in the early
so far been returned. dozens of migrants have died from violence or accidents in mexico over the past decade. a stranded boat carrying around 120 rohingya refugees from myanmar has arrived in indonesia after it was towed by the country s navy. authorities initially refused to help the boat, but local fishermen organised protests supporting the refugees. they also ferried food and water to those on board. bill de blasio has held his final news conference as mayor of new york. de blasio can point to a list of progressive wins under his leadership, including universal pre kindergarten, the end of the policing practice known as stop and frisk, and paid sick leave. but he has grappled with setbacks. a federal criminal investigation did not result in charges against him, but nevertheless found the mayor or his associates accepted contributions from donors seeking official favors.