When Public Advocate Jumaane Williams Aug. 20 wrote Police Commissioner Dermot Shea asking whether a police slowdown was under way, there was a touch of irony in a public official who long complained—sometimes with justification—about cops being too aggressive now lamenting that he missed their usual crime-fighting exploits.
When Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Bronx City Councilman Ritchie Torres 10 days later raised the same issue while asking city Investigation Commissioner Margaret Garnett to look into whether a slowdown was responsible for the soaring number of shootings, it offered two possibilities: either there was something to their suspicions, or they had come to the realization that recent changes affecting both the NYPD budget and police use of force had backfired.
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