former boston police commissioner fox
news contributor ed davis joins me now
ed um always terrific to see you what do
you think
about the again the rise in crime of
violence against law enforcement
but also the very clear message out of
new york city
that crime pays
there's no question that's the
perception on the street right now i
talk to police
officers all across the country
proactive policing is it has been
reduced across the country uh just just
because
police are getting a mixed message from
the community as to what they want
and when you take that and you put in
activist da's that are uh
basically operating under the premise
that no one needs to go to jail
um you end up with a very violent uh
outcome and my colleagues and i are very
worried about this summer i think that
across the nation
we're going to see we've already seen
very high
rates of violent crime in the cities
well what's going to turn the tide i
i've pointed to
the democratic primary for mayor here in
new york city
that the voting is tomorrow there's
essentially only
there one candidate is a former police
officer
but then also they're basically people
who would rather stand up for criminals
who are running for mayor of new york
then stand up for the police they
somehow think that
fewer police officers on the street
would mean fewer criminals
that from the left-wing land of lunacy
but what will change this because
again and they also the message is that
well these aren't
they're they're no victims of of looting
because the businesses would be
reimbursed by insurance
please disabuse them of that notion
that that that's ridiculous uh i i speak
to victims of looting all the time
we work with companies like this across
the country and
these people suffer they're the ones who
employ
uh people in the cities that they
operate in and there have been many many
businesses that have closed over the
years
because of the damage that has been
caused by alluding to their
uh overall ability to operate in in in
the community
so it's a very serious problem and
what's going to change it digging is
the people are going to become very very
disenchanted with these
uh far-left policies you're going to see
crime go up and when that happens
as me and menino used to say to me all
the time if the crime rate goes up in
the city i will lose my job
people don't take kindly to being
victimized
i've been oriented to victims my whole
life after 35 years on the police
department
and right now the victims are not being
paid attention to and that's really what
we need to do
and again this is a phrase that i've
used over and over again
but it's the mayor it is district
attorneys
look no further than psy vance jr it is
a governor here
it is left-wing city council members
it is left-wing people in the assembly
in albany but they coddle criminals
and then treat the victims like detritus
and but they don't see it that way and i
don't know
what it takes other than because the
people that it hurts the most
are people in lower income areas
they're they're the business owners are
hurt there are fewer jobs
the transit crime the crime on subways
is skyrocketing
those are the very people in the outer
boroughs
who need to be able to safely commute to
work
on a subway and they can't do that
that's correct that's absolutely correct
and we're going back to the bad old days
here
with these policies that in the past
have been a problem the police need to
step up
and reestablish their community uh
relationships with the community
they need to be reassured by the
community that the community wants
proactive policing but respectful
policing if we can do that we can push
this tide back
and it would take voting these people
out of office
god forbid that somebody who's a
democrat comes in uh
like a in eric adams who's is
legitimately concerned about
the rise and particularly violent crime
right and with his experience uh in
brooklyn
uh there's a man that can understand and
and
turn the tide on this bad situation
that's starting to develop he has real
experience on the street
so i'm all for the political process
but i will tell you that the people in
the neighborhoods don't take kindly to
being victimized
that's going to play itself out in
political races across the country
because people are here in new york city
some of the strictest probably the
strictest
gun control laws in new york you you
aren't allowed the second amendment
doesn't exist here you're not allowed to
defend
yourself and that's the situation that
so many people
face is they go out in the street and
they're worried about getting punched in
the face getting their nose broken and
they know
doggone well that the perp isn't going
to be
prosecuted and they might be charged but
they'll be put right back on the street
but some cities i want to get your
reaction to this some cities are
refunding the police after just one year
that the defund the police movement gain
momentum
tens of millions of dollars going toward
construction of new precincts and
increasing department budgets to fight
back against increasing crime your
reaction to this ed
and will it happen in the far left
cities
like new york or a chicago or
even a los angeles well it's good to see
that cities
are starting to recognize that as my
colleague bill bratton always says
police matter
so the number of officers out there the
the time it takes to get to a call when
someone needs help
the the the number of prosecutions of
violent criminals and the incarceration
of those violent criminals
we've had too many people in jail i'll
grant you that but when we start to
release violent criminals
people who have committed serious crimes
against people like we saw in new york
this past week
we are sacrificing dozens of more
victims that those
individuals are going to act out on it's
clear that someone who commits a violent
crime will continue to do that they need
to be separated from society
um i think the far left cities that that
don't
heed the danger here will pay a price
down the road
people in the neighborhoods everywhere
are concerned about their personal
safety if you don't have that
you have no economy you have no freedom
of movement the constitutional rights of
the victims
are being sacrificed for the
constitutional rights
of the suspects i encourage everybody to
go back and read the original bail
reform
law as it was put into practice here
in new york city now they tweaked it
last year
but in the original list bail-free
crimes no bail necessary right back out
on the street
were manslaughter arson and crimes
against
children so that literally was okay
with the leadership uh governor cuomo on
down
like they didn't consider those crimes
that warranted
actually making people post bail that's
how insane
this country has become in certain
pockets and let's hope the chad is
definitely turning ed davis terrific to
see
thank you sir thank you so much