New Anti-Crime Unit Helps, But NYC Mayor Must Not Recoil in Times of Pressure, Policing Experts Say

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

40% : "As violent crime skyrockets you have to unhandcuff the police, let the police do their job, and let them know that if something happens -- inevitably, there is going to be something controversial that is going to happen -- politicians have their back," John Eterno, criminal justice professor at Molloy College, told The Epoch Times.
36% : It is a hard job to take illegal guns off the street and the job becomes even harder when officers do not have the political support behind them, according to Joe Giacalone, a former NYPD homicide detective who now teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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