Robert Shapiro quoted in Bloomberg
NYC’s Crime Spike Puts Policing in the Spotlight of Mayor’s Race
Robert Shapiro, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government, was quoted in Bloomberg.
New York City is gearing up for the last month of a mayoral race that is coinciding with a spike of gun violence the city hasn’t seen in decades, including a 166% increase in shootings in April from a year before and a shooting in Times Square that’s rocked the city....
... The issues playing out in New York City are sure to influence cities across the U.S. experiencing similar spikes in crime, said Robert Shapiro, a Columbia University political scientist. “Any time the political discourse turns toward law and order nationally, Democrats tend to lose influence,” he said.