{"id":1988029,"date":"2023-08-01T17:14:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-unveils-500-million-blueprint-to-fight-gun-violence-with-no-plans-to-hire-more-officers\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T17:14:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T21:14:57","slug":"nyc-mayor-unveils-500-million-blueprint-to-fight-gun-violence-with-no-plans-to-hire-more-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-unveils-500-million-blueprint-to-fight-gun-violence-with-no-plans-to-hire-more-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor&#8217;s $500M Plan to Combat Gun Violence Excludes Officer Recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-mayor-unveils-500-million-blueprint-to-fight-gun-violence-with-no-plans-to-hire-more-officers%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1988029&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<h2>New York City mayor Eric Adams (D.)<\/h2>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"Getty Images\" alt=\"Eric Adams\"><br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Mayor Adams Unveils\u2063 Bold\u200c Plan to Combat Gun Violence<\/h3>\n<p>New York City mayor Eric Adams (D.) on Monday unveiled a new plan to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/march-for-our-lives-issue-biden-1-billion-list-of-gun-control-policy-demands\/\" title=\"March For Our Lives Issue Biden  Billion List Of Gun Control Policy Demands\">combat gun violence<\/a> that included\u200c no \u200dgoals for\u200b hiring new police officers for a\u2064 force hemorrhaging \u2064personnel.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Blueprint\u200d for Community Safety,&#8221;\u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/assets\/home\/downloads\/pdf\/press-releases\/2023\/Blueprint-Community-Safety.pdf?utm_medium=email&#038;utm_name=&#038;utm_source=govdelivery\">released<\/a> by\u2064 the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-the-1994-assault-weapons-ban-didnt-work\/\" title=\"Why The 1994 Assault Weapons Ban Didn\u2019t Work\">gun violence task force<\/a>, will pour almost $500 million into housing, \u2064employment, \u200cand mental health programs\u2064 without\u200d a cent toward putting new cops on the street. The mayor said boosts for \u200csocial programs will help to &#8220;stop the violence before it happens on our streets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our city must start intervening earlier, focusing on positive youth development, before it\u2019s\u200c too late,&#8221; Adams said at a City Hall press conference Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The plan comes as the city\u2019s police \u200ddepartment is bleeding officers at record rates, with \u2064more officers leaving \u200din January and February than\u200d any year\u2019s \u2062first two months \u200bsince a contract dispute in 2007, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/03\/10\/nypd-cops-resigning-from-force-in-2023-at-record-pace\/\">according<\/a> to the <em>New York Post<\/em>. The mass exodus \u2064in those \u200ctwo\u200b months was a 117 percent jump\u200d from two years prior.<\/p>\n<p>A 2016 Obama administration <a href=\"https:\/\/obamawhitehouse.archives.gov\/the-press-office\/2016\/04\/23\/cea-report-economic-perspectives-incarceration-and-criminal-justice\">report<\/a> points\u2062 out \u2062that &#8220;expanding resources for\u2062 police has consistently been shown to reduce crime; estimates from economic research suggest that a 10 percent increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-unveils-500-million-blueprint-to-fight-gun-violence-with-no-plans-to-hire-more-officers\/\" title=\"NYC Mayor's 0M Plan to Combat Gun Violence Excludes Officer Recruitment\">police force \u2062size decreases crime<\/a> \u2062by 3 to 10 \u2063percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While shootings in New York City have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/07\/06\/nyregion\/shootings-nyc-crime.html\">fallen<\/a> \u2062 sharply since \u2062last year, they remain significantly higher than\u200d they were\u2063 prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor \u200blast month <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/eric-adams-blames-media-for-new-yorkers-worries-about-crime\/\">blamed<\/a> media coverage for New Yorkers\u2019 crime \u2063fears. Adams was responding to a Siena College poll that <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/eric-adams-blames-media-for-new-yorkers-worries-about-crime\/\">found<\/a> 41 percent of New York State residents have never felt as concerned about their safety as they do now, with 87 percent saying \u2062crime is\u200d a \u2062very\u200b or somewhat serious problem \u200cin the city and state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D.) revealed a gun violence combat plan, called &#8220;Blueprint for Community Safety,&#8221; which lacks any objectives for recruiting additional police officers. Despite the force experiencing a decline in personnel, the plan was introduced by the city&#8217;s gun violence task force on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2083,"featured_media":1988030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2083"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1988030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}