howard safer former police commissioner
from new york city
is with us uh commissioners like the
wild west
you got you got niagara drive by by
moped in new york city
44 people shot in chicago now it's 45
went up in the last
15 minutes five people shot on bourbon
street in new orleans
what's going on what's going on is we're
going back to the bad old days
we have vilified the police we are
defunding the police
we have come up with these crazy bail
laws that release
known felons who have been convicted of
the same crimes they continue to
perpetrate
and we are sending a message to
criminals
that you don't have to fear the police
you know back in
when i was commissioner and commissioner
kelly and commissioner bratton
the only people who needed to fear the
police were criminals so they kept their
guns home they were very careful about
what they did
and they went to other places in new
york city if they were committing crimes
but the fact is
if criminals don't fear police if
there's no accountability
and certainty of arrest they're going to
do what they've
always done commit crimes do you think
there's been
a a change of atmosphere or something
that's more lenient that they think they
can get away with it what's behind that
to be so what's behind it primarily
uh leftist politicians like in seattle
and new york
and portland who have ceded their cities
to
black lives matter and antifa uh i was
amused although
in a strange way by the seattle mayor
who ceded a whole part of her city
to black lives matter and is now calling
for more police
memo order because the truth is we're
listening to the loudest voices
the vast majority of americans respect
police
they want to go about their lives in
peace and we are listening to these
radical groups
and what's going to happen is you know
in new york city in 1994
there were 2 500 homicides it was a
terrible dangerous place
we're headed in the same direction
throughout this country unless we do
something and we do something now
as the police commissioner down at 1pp
uh uh
one b if he's one police plaza uh they
call it one pp
you know what it's like when you get
that call in middle of the night when uh
one of new york's finest is shot
thankfully the lieutenant we've got that
video right now let me show it to you
lieutenant shot in the ankle he's gonna
be okay
but what's striking about this video is
that the suspect
first of all the guy the suspect's a
suspected gang member he's been arrested
25 times
he was arrested in november they say he
had a semi-automatic loaded
semi-automatic on him the guy then gets
back on the streets a judge
let him out thirty thousand dollars bail
and they
in this video commissioner they keep on
saying stop stop stop but the guy's not
listening to law enforcement
you know when i grew up the police
officer says something
respect the police officer
if the mayor of new york city and the
president of the united states
indicts police by saying they're racist
and brutal
and they're going to be held accountable
instead of saying that criminals are
going to be held accountable
that's what we're going to have this was
disgraceful and what else was
disgraceful
you know when i was police commissioner
any time a police officer was injured
i arrived and so did mayor giuliani
mayor de blasio didn't even show up
we're very lucky that this lieutenant
was not injured more seriously
uh this is out of control it's a
national crisis
and we need to do something about it and
we need to do something now
i mean when i left new york city it was
the safest large city in america
and the country was very quickly uh
following behind us
now it's going in the absolute opposite
direction and it's because
of not holding criminals accountable you
can't have somebody
who has 25 arrests uh found with a
loaded gun
back out on the street you know we talk
about social programs
these criminals don't care about social
programs they don't care about their
economic background
they care about committing crimes and
until we realize that
we're going to have the same thing
that's going on all over this nation and
that's very very
sad yeah this alleged gang member
doesn't doesn't of course he's a
criminal allegedly you know
comply with the orders of the officers
who are telling him to stop
you pointed something out we've put a uh
inquiry into the city hall
uh new york city mayor's office about
the mayor's whereabouts because it is
traditional for a mayor
the mayor of new york city to show up at
hospitals when a police officer is shot
uh finally what do you think it will
finally take to try and
get back to what happened when when you
uh took office
uh when mayor giuliani took office there
was the broken windows theory by jack
maple and others
which went after small crimes turnstile
jumping squeegee men the guys who would
stop at the windshields
is there a deterioration of the quality
of life in some of these cities that is
not being addressed
do you think by some absolutely i mean
if you look at this
uh statement of a district attorney in
california
saying he's not going to prosecute any
uh thefts from stores
under a thousand dollars and right after
that criminals of broad daylight
going into the stores and stealing
things under a thousand dollars
broken windows is very clear if you deal
with small crime
you deal with big crime now when i
became police commissioner there were
250 000 people
jumping over turnstiles every month it
was like an olympic sport
we started enforcing that law we found
machine guns we found murderers
we found narcotics and it sent a very
clear signal
you can't commit crimes in new york and
get away with it what we're sending now
is the opposite
signal saying commit a crime and nothing
happens to you
the world is upside down and we need to
get it right side up
former new york city police commissioner
howard safer commissioner thank you for
your service to the city
and to law enforcement across the
country good to be with you eric it's
good to see you as always thank you
alicia