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For the rising crimes in NYC according to Yang addressing cultural and racism has to be addressed.
It seems Yang has completely forgotten that NYC' City Council had defunded the police with one Billion cut of its funds.
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It seems Yang has completely forgotten that NYC' City Council had defunded the police with one Billion cut of its funds.
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Yang believes that the city's police need to be held accountable for rising crime rates while also addressing cultural concerns within the police department.
"They actually should go hand in hand. You need to improve police culture while also holding police accountable to bring their resolution rates for violent crime up. Unfortunately, they are going down right now," Yang said. "That is another form of police accountability—if you have higher rates of unsolved crimes, that is not a trend that you want to continue."
At the end of 2020, the NYPD released statistics showing that the city had seen a 97 percent jump in shootings compared with the previous year, as well as a 45 percent jump in murders. There were more than 420 murders in 2020—over 140 more than the city saw in 2019. Shootings nearly doubled last year, rising dramatically from 777 in 2019 to 1,531 across the city's five boroughs in 2020.
Meanwhile, as Yang pointed out, the vast majority of New York City's shootings went unsolved in 2020. The police department's clearance rate for shootings—which means at least one suspect was arrested—stood just below 32 percent. Even fewer of those arrests resulted in prosecution and conviction.
Yang also wants to address widespread concerns about police culture and racism.
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