How ironic that the reverend titled his bit of street theater a “We Will Not Go Back” march. Because that’s precisely what he wants the city to do: return to the ugly days when cops failed to control crime, chaos ruled and the city was barely livable.

 

Only two decades ago, the city saw 2,245 people murdered in a single year. That’s more than six lives a day — and most of those were the lives of blacks and Hispanics. Moms and dads had their kids sleep in bathtubs to avoid stray bullets.

 

Today, thanks to the men and women in blue, this year the average is less than one murder a day. Think of all the lives, minority lives, that have been saved.

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Yet today’s NYPD stands as a model of restraint. In 1994, cops shot and injured 61 people and killed 29. Last year, just 26 perpetrators were shot and eight died.

 

http://nypost.com/2014/08/23/three-cheers-for-the-nypd/

Thanks, good for the Post for running the article. Unfortunately it won't change any minds.