NYC reforms aimed at tinkering with racial makeup of criminals created more Black victims: expert
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Progressive policies implemented to rectify the imbalance of Black Americans who are arrested, convicted and incarcerated came as crime skyrocketed in cities like New York. Yet experts say these reforms have backfired.
New York's Mayor Bill de Blasio makes declarations at a mass vaccination site at Yankee Stadium amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in the Bronx borough of New York City, New York, U.S., February 5, 2021. (REUTERS/Carlo Allegri) NYPD (New York Police Department)
Meyers and Jim Quinn, a former executive district attorney in the Queens district attorney’s office, recently published an essay in the New York Times arguing that by "aiming for racial equity in criminal justice rather than focusing solely on deterring and responding to crime, policymakers seem to have neglected the foundational purpose of law and order."