"There's absolutely no slowdown going," Mike the Cop said Sept. 10 when asked about the suspicions voiced the previous three weeks by Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and City Councilman Ritchie Torres that falling arrest numbers at the same time that shootings rose sharply was attributable to discontent within the NYPD about a new law imposing criminal liability for cops who used chokeholds or compressed a suspect's diaphragm.
"The spike in crime," he continued, "is due to a lot of factors, one of them being that you no longer have plainclothes units out looking for guns" in the wake of the NYPD's disbanding its Anticrime Unit in early June over several incidents in which its members were criticized as too aggressive.
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