Article by Eric Utter in "The American Thinker":
Escape
from New York. Now. If you can. That seems to be the thinking of
hundreds of thousands of Big Apple denizens as the city, recently one of
the safest in the world, devolves into a dystopian hell at the hands of demented progressives.
Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and his former police commissioners such as Bernard Kerik, who headed up the NYPD force
from 2000-2001 and directed the police response to 9/11, can only watch
and weep as the city they had so successfully cleaned up rapidly
descends into chaos and carnage. This Nightmare in New York is brought
to you courtesy of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Bill de Blasio, and a cast
of thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters,
anarchists and street thugs. The once vibrant city is turning into a
virtual no-go zone of looted shops, shuttered store windows and
skyrocketing murder rates. The number of shooting victims is up 51% this
year so far, and that tragic trend is accelerating. In June of this
year there were 250 shootings, as opposed to 97 in June of 2019.
New York was already reeling from the highest
coronavirus death toll in the (formerly) United States, due in large
part to Gov. Cuomo approving the transfer of thousands of recovering
COVID-19 patients to nursing homes at the height of the pandemic. Then the rioting
began, and Mayor de Blasio’s response was to shame cops and propose
cutting his city’s police department budget by more than one billion dollars. (That’s one thousand million for those of you who were educated in the city’s public schools.)
The Dimwitted Duo have caused a mass exodus, with
500,000 mostly middle-class New Yorkers fleeing the city thus far and
many more likely to follow. Half a million New Yorkers heading for the
proverbial hills. That’s more than the entire population of Minneapolis,
where all the madness started. Of course, with the Minneapolis City
Council repeatedly voting to disband its police force, the entire population of the “Mini apple” may head for the hills, as well.
The Big Apple is rotting and shrinking. Needlessly.
Minneapolis is too. As are many other large American cities. The rioters
and the elites are together making these cities uninhabitable for
everyone else, including the police.