In doing so, whether they wanted to or not, these politicians and officials have taken steps toward a more traditional approach to law enforcement.
Ms. Hochul's abrupt deployment of 700 National Guard troops — along with additional New York State Police and Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) officers in the subways of the nation's largest city — is one such example, in the view of Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute think tank.
"Gov. Hochul is belatedly reacting to the crime and disorder that have plagued New York City since the George Floyd race riots," Ms. Mac Donald told The Epoch Times.
"Why is she reacting now? Because the November elections loom and Democrats, from the president on down, are vulnerable to the charge that they have enabled a breakdown of law and order."
Comment: Clearly there are an ever greater number predatory and psychopathic men who are taking advantage of the trans craze for camouflage, and perpetrate more heinous acts. When will the activists get a clue!?