In 25 years, Bill de Blasio has a good chance to be David Dinkins: a New York City mayor who is remembered as better than he seemed when he left office.
. “There were a lot of swings and misses on the pandemic,” Cornegy says. “The haphazard way he dealt with it exacerbated every single inequity.”
Then there’s police reform. In 2013, de Blasio campaigned hard on the promise to end the NYPD’s use of stop and frisk, and to make the police generally more cooperative with the city’s residents of color. The use of stop and frisk is indeed way down, though not gone. Abuse complaints before the pandemic. “Mayor de Blasio has done a great job in trying to help reduce violence, and we were really doing great before the pandemic,” saysthe founder of the Harlem anti-violence group Street Corner Resources. “I believe he made his best effort on police reform, but it’s been a Band-Aid effect. The police department hasn’t followed those efforts.”
Perhaps that’s because de Blasio is haunted by a lesson he thought he learned working for Dinkins: that a mayor must not lose control of the police department. In 1992, de Blasio had a prime view of the cop riot on the steps of City Hall—aEighteen years later, when protesters took to the streets after the killing of George Floyd, Mayor de Blasio sided with the NYPD.
Through it all, de Blasio seemed to be longing for an even bigger job. He ran, poorly, for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination; he is now an all-but-official 2022 candidate for governor. De Blasio wasn’t the abject failure his nemesis Cuomo claimed he was, but he wasn’t the shining progressive hero his early boosters envisioned, either. Unlike Dinkins, he remained popular enough to win a second term easily.
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