Anybody still wondering what New York City is going to look like post-Broken Windows policing? Just check out Gotham’s latest wide-screen drama—the Invasion of the Sidewalk Snatchers.
When Mayor Bill de Blasio, an enabler of the city’s metastasizing vagrancy crisis, summoned the press this weekend to watch him take the subway four stops in Brooklyn, his handlers and security detail made sure to roust any homeless people from the route to provide a sanitized backdrop for all the pictures. But even de Blasio is no longer oblivious to the ugly reality behind his Potemkin city, just this month pinpointing a root cause: he says that many people panhandle “purely out of choice—this is a fact—somehow they think it’s fun or they think it’s a way to make easy money, and I resent that.”
Source: Potemkin Subway | City Journal