“Mayor Adams’ renewed commitment to quality-of-life enforcement is a sign that he is taking the city's crime problem seriously. Serious offenders do not specialize and apprehending them on a minor charge before they commit a major one benefits the community as a whole. In addition, decaying quality of life—public intoxication and drug use, abuse of the subway system, littering, etc.—harms New Yorkers by reducing public order, driving away business, and otherwise getting in the way of the return to normal the city desperately needs.”
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Charles Fain Lehman is a fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal.