NYC MINORITIES ARE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT CRIME AND SAFETY THAN WHITES

Anti-cop mayoral wannabes are totally out of touch with poor, minority New Yorkers 

 

Post Editorial Board 

New York Post

June 18, 2021

New Yorkers have grown increasingly alarmed by the seemingly unstoppable spike in violent crime, but a new poll commissioned by The Post makes clear just who cares most: the very groups that anti-police activists, including several mayoral candidates, claim to champion — namely, minorities and the poor.

 

                                   Maya Wiley, Scott Stringer and Dianne Morales                             

Clearly, these wannabes (Maya Wiley, Dianne Morales and Scott Stringer, in particular) couldn’t be more out of touch with what matters to voters.

In the Post survey, nearly 30 percent of New Yorkers ranked “crime/safety” as “the most important issue” facing the city — and 43.2 percent said “safety” concerns would have the greatest impact on their vote. More than half (50.4 percent versus 42.6 percent) disapprove of the city’s decision to defund the NYPD last year.

And look at the breakdowns: Black (32.1 percent), Asian (32.4 percent), Dominican (34.6 percent) and Indian (43.5 percent) Americans posted the highest numbers when it comes to viewing safety as the top issue. By contrast, only 26.4 percent of whites ranked “crime/safety” as most important.

Lower-income New Yorkers also ranked “crime/safety” as their No. 1 concern more than did the higher-income folks: Of those making less than $60,000 a year, 38.7 percent cited it as their No. 1 worry, versus just 22.1 percent of those with incomes over $250,000.

The reason’s obvious: The poor, particularly blacks and Hispanics, are disproportionately victims of crime. African Americans, for example, made up 65 percent of murder victims last year and 40 percent of rape victims, though they account for just 23 percent of the population, NYPD data show; 35 percent of rape victims were Hispanics, though they’re just 29 percent of New Yorkers.

Yet clueless radicals, like Wiley, Morales and Stringer, care more about their anti-police ideology than about poor, minority victims, even as they pretend they care the most. Indeed, Wiley would actually shift more funds away from the very people — cops — who protect poor, minority neighborhoods. She’s even open to taking guns away from cops.

On the other hand, Eric Adams is a former cop who understands the toll crime takes on minorities and has no intention of defunding or handcuffing police. More of his supporters (52.9 percent) cite “safety” as the top reason for their vote than do those of any other candidate.

If Adams winds up with particularly strong support from minorities when the polls close Tuesday night, it’ll be clear why.